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Here is a way to revive your old battery pack. Usually the laptop battery is the first part to break.
On older laptops a new battery pack can cost more than the PC itself, so buying a new one is no
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I have had different results with different battery packs, but the usual is a 50-70 % increase in time running on
batteries. My personal experience is that NiMh batteries are much easer to rejuvenate than LiIon.

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Step 1 - Drain the battery

Remove the AC adapter and let it run until the battery is completly empty. You can turn off all power saving
features to speed things up. When it goes in to sleep mode, try to turn it on until you get no response at all.

Step 2 - Drain the battery even more

Using a low wattage 12v lamp (car brake light for example), you can empty the battery pack even further. Check
the voltage of your battery pack, and use a lamp with a suitable voltage. Remember not to use a lamp with too
high wattage as this could damage your batteries. Also, be careful not to short circuit. You will need to figure out
where the ground and + voltage is. On this IBM thinkpad batterypack they are located on the opposite corners
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Let the lamp shine until you see it going slightly dimmer. It is important not to drain it too much (especially Li-
Ion).

If you are the cautious type, you can hook up a multimeter and measure the voltage. I usually don’t like to
bother, but you can calculate how much you can drain (Skip if if you don´t care that much):

For example if your battery has 9,6 Volts printed on it:

9,6 / 1,2 = 8 cells

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8 x 0,6 = 4,8 V.

So, it’s safe to drain this 9,6 V pack to 4,8 V.

Step 3 - Recharge

Now it’s time for the for the fun part. I like to log just about everything to track the results. If you like that too,
just download and run apmmowin before inserting the battery. The output can be redirected to a file like this:

apmmowin > cycle1.txt

Recharge to 100%, and repeat from Step 1.

Results

For this article i have used apmmowin to log the results. The graph below shows the increase in battery time from
50 minutes to 2 hours and 41 minutes:

These results are from four cycles with a IBM Thinkpad R40 9.6 V Ni-Mh battery pack.

Before the discharge / Recharge cycles the battery time fell drastically from 60% to 10%. Afterwards the drop
has dissapeared and the discharge rate is much more constant.

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76 comments to “Reviving Laptop batteries”

1. Comment by karl:
Friday, November 24th 2006 at 4:02 am

I think I rode something like this before, they use it I remember to rejuvenate the batteries on
communication satellites, (they allso need those as their orbits make them pass through the shadow of the
earth).

great idea!

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3. Comment by Mark:
Sunday, December 10th 2006 at 5:51 pm

Hey,
It worked like a chram and I thank you!! I used it on an IBM also and it was my wifes; she thanks you
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Thanks much
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4. Comment by Harry:
Friday, December 15th 2006 at 6:34 am

@Mark
Thanks for the nice post, however it is different from battery to battery how well it works. Some you just
can’t revive while others get 80 % more battery time.

Give my regards to your wife

5. Comment by Kenneth:
Monday, January 29th 2007 at 9:56 am

Thx man. I got it in the fridge now hope it works

6. Comment by Anton:
Saturday, February 17th 2007 at 3:08 am

Hi i was wondering if this would be ok to do on my powerbook g4’s LiIon battery, i read on some post
that draining this type of battery would cause a permanent damage as to not be able to recharge past that
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7. Comment by mr2000jp:
Wednesday, March 28th 2007 at 6:30 am

i know that this is good for the ni-mh and older batteries , but the li-ion batteries doesnt get better this way
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would this work if my battery has a 10 min charge?

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I’m not sure that I believe this procedure. The calculations used 1.2V as the voltage per cell but with
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what is kenneth’s reference to the refrigerator about? Is there a refrigeration step?

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Someone told me that you can rejuvenate a laptop battery by putting it in a deep freeze overnight and then
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34. Comment by Rob:

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Can anyone confirm this works on Li-ion batteries? Surely this is a bad idea as li-ions will be rendered
useless if taken too low, and in a series pack without monitoring each cell individually during the discharge
this is likely to happen.
I can see this could help balance the pack, which could improve its overall capacity. If this is the case, i’d
recommend discharging each cell individually, monitoring its voltage, not letting it drop below 2.5 volts per
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The freezer trick is for a battery that has an internal short due to metallic crystal growth that happens over
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With multiple cell battery packs, you can’t really tell the right thing to do - as each cell could have its own
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But, you will either (1) Be successful (to varying degrees) (2) Make no difference or (3) Make worse or
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The deep cycle technique (described by the OP) is quite good if applied to the right battery in an
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