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I replaced my battery about a month ago with an OEM from here. All went well, and the battery works fine, except my time from fully charged is even worse than before… 3-4 hours tops, and often it goes from 25% to dead in about 1 minute. I checked and my system profile says: Full Charge Capacity: 3016 Cycle Count 35 Condition: Service Battery Any suggestions? My computer is becoming rather unusable… Thanks
Hello, It’s very possible you got a bad battery however typically when batteries reach their limit they will change to the condition of “Replace Now”. Service Battery can sometimes be fixed by power cycling the battery. To do this, drain the battery as low as it will possibly go (down to 0%) and then leave it plugged in until it reaches 100% capacity. Leave it plugged in a few hours longer than what the indicator within the OS says of the percentage (It may be giving a false reading). After its fully charged drain it down once more and it should be fixed upon the next charge. If for some reason it is still acting strangely and discharging rapidly it is in fact a bad battery and I would replace it / get a refund as soon as you can. Best of luck!!!
