The Undead Battery -- Battery says it's dead but isn't

[dudutz999]

this is true and it worked for me. toshiba m35

[grubbytron]

Be careful. I accidentally blew up my laptop doing this same thing back in 1955.

[0204kat]

yea it is dead just 1 more life

[OfficialConner]

The BIOS uses as little power as possible, that why it takes so long when using Disk Sanitation services, this is pure dumbness.

[ThatLegoGuy12]

UUUUUUUUM whats ur OP SYSTEM?

its like.....100 years ago

[snowzii]

How does the battery die?

[saints360row]

hi  :)

[scienceviewfinder]

Yup..........Check out my Energy video.

See what u think?

[jiminycracken]

The reason it does this so that you use the battery up to the point that you completely discharge it, and the computer cannot work without the power cable itn.

[adamdmasi]

@sims2productionmovie Last year that happened to me with an Acer laptop, just get it serviced and it should be fixed.

[sims2productionmovie]

Mt battery is dead and my cord does not work! anyone have any suggestions?(I have an acer laptop)

[goeroetje]

check your little batery inside your computer, thats the battery that holding the time and its starting up your computer

[lunafringe10]

ok dell hehe, just the name and i was in the picture

[z0il]

You should calibrate the battery. The chip is uncalibrated so it doesn't read well the amount of power left. You have to charge all the way up, then keep charging for 2 hours, then use all the power until the PC goes to standby mode, the leave all night. When it's depleted, just charge again. There you go....

Remember to do this once a month and don't discharge until the the laptop turns off or it may never charge again.

[jalalayad]

DELL is the worst computers company!!!

I had to buy 2 batrries in less than 18months!!

may be the battries are provided by another company, but Dell never propose any kind of warranty !!!

Mamaaaas don't let your babies buy Dell computers!!

[dmtl1993]

@jalalayad

lol i have dell for 3 years no alsoo my sister and father and we have no problems with baterry dell is very good pc-laptop you was just unlucky . . .

[rabbitphobia]

Computa says noooooo!

(little Britain)

[maddog380]

A total waste of time! This dip stick is just showing how much power is in the battery and the battery will last about 2 to 3 min and sut down!

[packagewarren]

did not help me with anything, useless, wasted time. thumbs down.

[BBBDaman556FinalForm]

So, I should infect my battery with viruses? So it's undead?

[Xearo167]

Actually the Battery is not lieing.. The built in control and safety circuit is not allowing it to charge.. The battery still has a charge but not enough to run the computer... you need to deep cycle it by some other means.. as the laptop won't for *Safty*

[mikeymike6911]

That's sorted my laptop out. For some reason my laptop thought my battery was dead. Lasted 5 minutes before shutting itself down.

Followed the instructions in the video and its back to normal now

Thanks

[UBERKron]

this is pointless. if the battery got completely discharged it would not live very long. all you are doing is rooting an already rooted battery.

[MrMasterZombie]

That computer is a liar!!!

[Kevcat115]

Thats because it takes more power to boot up the computer.

[sirmasterpimp]

I have the same laptop (Dell inspiron 2200) and my battery was doing the same. You can recondition it by putting the battery in the freezer for 24 hours. The reason you are doing this is to break down sulfation in the NiMH cells (This will not work on a lithium ion battery, just nickle metal hydride.....The inspiron 2000 series should have the nickle battery like mine). After 24 hours let the battery thaw and charge it up. You should get a few more minuets out of it. I get 1 hour now!

[Killm33m012]

i think it just means it doesn't have enough power to power on the laptop

[bobctx]

how to undead battery i brought it hp pavillon pzv6000 thanks!

[vvswordvv]

Your comp actually froze..your battery is still dead.

[hluizr]

I think notebook batteries are made to self destroy.

I hardly ever used my notebook battery and now it's gone.

This is very suspicious...

[angrygrenade80]

my battery is on 0% right now

[206robert206]

i noticed one HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE mistake in this video that is a dell laptop!!!!

anything that has dell printed on it in any way sucks!!!!!!!!!!

[s8erboii30]

@206robert206

I agree... GET A MAC!!!!

[206robert206]

lol wtf?? mac baterys cant be fixed

&+ windows is better

[bpmagruder]

is this an inspiron laptop

[defendant420]

Ive had nothing but problems from dell laptop batteries, just throw the P.O.S. out and lead a happy life.

[Dark0Lord7]

What happens:

Your battery is 100% dead. The energy from the power cord is running on the circuits yet. The BIOS doesn't use up much energy, so it stays up for 30 seconds. If u do that while u boot up, it will shut down.

[206robert206]

@Dark0Lord7

thats a dumb lie

if its in bios or not still using same amount of power

[Dark0Lord7]

wrong. in bios the processor is only processing whats some letters on the screen, and info about sensors. And that's very low. when boooting windows, the processor needs to load data, and it takes alot of power.

[206robert206]

so from what your saying the processors power consumption depends on whats running? i thought it was constant power

[TheWickex]

Has nothing to do with your battery. It's just energy left. Since your BIOS doesn't need much power, it can easily stay on for 30 seconds. This would even work without batteries. It works the same as my digital clock radio. When I unplug my batteries, it still shows for around 10 seconds. But when I press the light button, it drains so much energy it turns off immediately.

[meshterooarad]

@TheWickex actually before the OS's power management kickstarts it draws maximum power, the analogy with the digital clock it's just stupid; electronics are not the same: the digital clock stays on because it doesn't need much power and when you unplug it there is some charge in the capacitors which sustains it for several seconds, those same capacitors are used for powering up the light and buzzer which draw more power that's why when you turn on the light it just turns off.

[thegreatkoua]

i guess you just have to make yourself unuseful

[mangadehi]

your battery is still dead.... you don't reconditioned it.

[gonzobrains]

what can your "champ" do for a whole minute??

[robleggatt7]

get the power cable back in if you've knocked it out :P

[lowery02]

what the HELL does this accomplish? huh?! sighhh.. this video is about as useful as a fart in a windstorm.

[meshterooarad]

@lowery02 this is to prove that the vendor aka"Dell" set up a "timebomb" on the battery to screw you and other ignorants like you. By the way Dell are the biggest assholes on doing this. So stop posting if you don't know what you're talking about.

[UBERKron]

@meshterooarad i do you dont, funny as hell that you believe that, would you like to come to my house and show me the timebomb? is this like the time bomb in gasoline that renders it useless once burnt?

[lowery02]

@meshterooarad haha, 26 up, mess. you prick.

[westleysadler]

Thats a load of bull-crap. I tried it and it made zero difference. Battery still drains pretty fast.

[st2293]

wtf??????

[haberdasheryipod]

No shit, dead doesn't mean the battery doesn't exist, it means it's about as useless at powering things as... well, a useless thing.

[ralienpp]

Hmm, interesting... but what is the explanation of this phenomenon?

[vegcrable]

lol = shit

Battery don't dran so much in dos mode... go xp or vista lol

[thecasualproject]

moron. that was as useful as a fart in a gale!

[akpch]

what memtest has to do with the battery?

[gamie123456]

sucker s o b

[IhateSAMSUNG]

I would rather go with fujitsu siemens over dell

[Thomsonicus]

really helpful, NOT!

[ffwuc]

Watch a little closer. He is jumping the battery back to life by plugging the battery in when only the power pack is plugged in. The button pressing is just taking the computer into bios.

I have found this very useful. I was able to fix a new battery that had not conditioned properly using this method on an Acer Extensa.

[benofkent]

From what i know about batteries is you need to properly drain them not just when the pc sais its flat this step repeated will properly flatten the cells and SHOULD! help them charge better next time,

[boomer03]

Dell batteries suck as does their customer service. I am still waiting for a call from their support department 2 weeks after I logged a fault. Battery overheating until it's too hot to touch and they don't give a f**k!

DON'T BUY DELL!

[abz2000123]

@boomer03 youtube: funny dell customer service call

watch?v=ZpmaJWV_P48

you'll probably be able to relate to the frustration, but the end is amazing!

[MrRogueEntertainment]

@boomer03 who said his battery was manufacture by DELL?

[ImIndoPeople]

@boomer03 my father's friend bought one of that so....?

[ElMofo2]

hahahah ... whats the point xD

[tibore]

how pointless

[rafarocket22]

dell batteries are the worst. dont buy a dell laptop, you will end up buying a new battery every 12 months

[GhettoSusake]

so true , im with toshiba nows :)

[kawi523]

stupidest thing i've ever seen. i'm now dumber just for watching it!!!

[sergiozambrano]

That was worse than a bad lip-sync!

The computer starts up before the finger (falsely) hits the power button.

Not to mention it's the 90's western fastest computer.

[firegod09]

cant u just buy a new battery???

[BassCharacter]

wow, 20 secs of power under zero CPU load, that is worse than shit

[araditus]

The point is he had a dead battery plugged in to power up, and the "dead" battery was plugged back in and the laptop didnt die.

[cotton509]

ok ok

[Fuel1979]

what's the point of this video?

[muthanature]

Thats because none of your hardware is actually running under ubuntu. Find some working device drivers and watch that battery life go down.

[ibanez1403]

Man i Got a Dell Latituce c640 , i dont know where the Hell my Battery is , dell wont help me , there being Dicks

[ibanez1403]

Nvm , the laptop got Fucking stolen

[screwglue]

vista drains fucking battery

[riskyriot]

i don't get what he did

[modmadmike2]

and i was using vista! awesome, so mine will last about 7hrs when i install kubuntu.

[sirmasterpimp]

Nice, i see you have the dell inspiron 1200 or 2200. I have the 2200 and my battery is starting to go. just a word of advice about your laptop, don't let it get hot or the mother board will crash. i should know, i'm on my third one!!!!

[brinkness]

It's not useful. It just sort of illustrates that the battery lies to you about how much power is left. Also, if you do this a bunch of times (I was bored, one day), it actually regained about 30 minutes of battery life because I drained it fully before recharging.

Unfortunately, if you get to the point where this actually helps your battery life, your battery is well on its way out anyway.

[abz2000123]

@brinkness i'm planning on making a 30 cell battery now which will also work as an airflow stand, but i took apart the battery on the vaio fz31z which was holding about 2 minutes (i bought it not working so the battery must've been drained for some time), and found that all the cells show full life! i.e 4v instead of 3.7v on my cheap multimeter, what do you think might be wrong???

best regards,

abz

[HoneycombAgent]

@brinkness

What you can do is recondition the battery...

Leave it off the power supply wihle Memtest runs until the computer turns off completely, then recharge it.

[jojo808]

where would this be useful?

[gearsofwarcraft]

AMAZING