RE: Dell battery nag-ware?

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim, can it be cleared by recalibration ?

My Inspiron 1000 used to come up with a message saying it needed
recalibration. Finally bought a new battery for that one off eBay at
Christmas. The battery life on that machine had never been great but long
before I gave the machine to Amber it would hibernate after about 5 minutes
maximum and did it before it had chance to tell me the battery was getting
low LOL. With the new battery I tried it out but got fed up after an hour
so
decided it is now a fully functional machine again :)

Keith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Tim Hawes
> Sent: 15 February 2010 09:14
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Dell battery nag-ware?
>
> So my Dell laptop has just had it's 4th birthday. Is it just
> coincidence that I now get a pop-up message stating that the
> battery is "coming to the end of its useful life" ??
>
> There's no doubt that it doesn't last as long as when new but
> I still get over 2 hours out of it, it's hardly dead.
>
> Is this a ploy to get me to buy a new battery, with the
> message triggered by age rather than condition?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim.
>
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