RE: Dell battery nag-ware?

["Nick Tyson - The Edge" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Daniel,



Is 10am any good - if not I'm about all morning so you can choose.



Kind regards,



Nick



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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Keith Doxey
Sent: 15 February 2010 09:27
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Dell battery nag-ware?





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

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> To: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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> Subject: [ukha_d] Dell battery nag-ware?
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> 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" ??
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> 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.
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> 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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