If you are going to remove the battery and store it, do so at about 40-50% charge. Not sure how much or fast it will discharge since I do use mine.I use my laptop on power most of the time, but leave the battery in because I never know when I might want to move to another room-to watch a tv show or show someone something on the laptop,etc. I don't unplug when battery is at 100%, but I do unplug and let the battery deplete to around 10-20% once a week or so to keep it functioning well.The laptop is shut down and unplugged at night.My laptop & battery are almost 3 yrs old now and it still works well using this stategy, which has been a surprise actually because batteries reportedly start losing a good bit of capacity after the 2nd yr.If your laptop will stay plugged in day and night it is a good idea to remove the battery. Thanks again for that Cheryl,At night I always take it off power and put it away. I'll start to use the battery off and on to drain and charge it at least once a week.I am a bit confused though. I could be misreading this but it seems that your first reply said don't leave in the battery if using the powercord (and not charging per say) but then you say that you leave in the battery and use the powercord most of the time.Is it a case of I'm using the powercord all the time and you only use it most of the time?Thanks again. I appreciate the help.
I've gone from a mac desktop to a pc laptop and I'm still trying to find my feet. Many people now use a laptop in much the same way as a desktop, at work or home.Such as the laptop is plugged in and rarely/never moved or unplugged nor completely shutdown,simply allowing it to go into sleep mode. This type of use does seem to contribute to battery decline from posts we see here a lot. HP & other manufacturers do recommend removing the battery in such instances. Since I do unplug/move mine at times I keep the battery in and make sure to unplug and allow to discharge & recharge periodically. This has worked well for me.
Hi all,i bought a new HP envy 14 and after a week, tried to use it without the battery and instead just straight from the ac adapter. The laptop booted up, got into the windows login screen, and i entered my password and got into windows. As it loaded into windows, my laptop would instantly suddenly shut off. I turned it back on and same thing happened.So the AC adapter works. I am able to recharge my battery and start the laptop without the battery, but as soon as it goes into windows, it shuts off. Anyone else having this problem?
You can continue to use the laptop without the battery with no harm to the laptop, though you will need to be careful around power outages, because the system will crash when it loses power just as a desktop would, which can lead to corrupt or unsaved files being lost (again, just like a desktop). You can continue to use the laptop without the battery with no harm to the laptop, though you will need to be careful around power outages, because the system will crash when it loses power just as a desktop would, which can lead to corrupt or unsaved files being lost (again, just like a desktop).
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Hey thanks for the replies.It's definitely not a heat issue, since it never happens if the battery was in there. It only shuts off when using ac adapter only (with no battery). I am leaning towards something corrupt in windows, since it only shuts off when entering windows.I tried a few more times, and it seems like sometimes i can get into windows and use it for a while until it suddenly shuts off again, and sometimes it shuts off straight away upon entering into the desktop.And this is a brand new laptop.