One of the biggest challenges laptop owners have is extending the life of their laptop batteries. The batteries of Dell laptops are generally long-lasting, but battery life will also depend on how a person uses his computer. An effective way of improving the condition of laptop batteries is recalibration. This is a must especially when the duration of your battery life has gotten shorter after a few months or years of usage. It is recommended that you recalibrate the battery of your Dell laptop every two months to maintain its good performance.

Unless your battery is leaking acid, you should get some kind of bump in the battery life. Note that you should only perform this on NiCD or NiMH batteries. If you try this on a lithium battery, it’ll make the battery life worse. How To Reset a Dell Laptop Battery That's Not Being Detected and Not Charging. You can follow the following steps, which take only minutes and require no tools, to attempt a reset of your Dell battery: Completely power down the laptop and remove the cord from the computer. Users are now reporting that Dell is now finally accepting out-of-warranty battery replacements for the XPS 15 9550. Dell offers to replace swelling XPS 15 9550 batteries for free, even if out-of.

Step 1

Connect the power adapter to your laptop (with the battery attached) then plug the other end to the electrical outlet. Check to make sure that it is charging properly.

Step 2

Charge the battery completely. Monitor the battery indicator, which is usually found that the bottom of your computer screen, to check if the battery is already fully charged.

Step 3

Plug off the power adapter and use the laptop until the battery is completely drained. To drain the battery faster, run several programs at once and keep the contrast of your screen to its highest levels. Turn off all power-saving features as well.

Step 4

Make sure that the battery is totally drained by waiting for your laptop to shut off or go into sleep mode automatically because of very low battery charge.

Plug the power adapter again and charge the battery again completely. Once this is done, restore the power-saving features and adjust the contract settings of your screen to normal.

Items you will need

• Dell laptop
• Laptop battery
• Power adapter
• Standard electrical outlet

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