Laptops attract us primarily for their compactness and mobility. In most cases, for all other characteristics, it loses significantly to the desktop PC. The mobility of the gadget is ensured by the battery, and when it wears out and completely fails, the laptop is confined to the socket tightly.
Modern laptops use lithium batteries with an average life of 3-4 years. Moreover, their average life is about 400-500 charge-discharge cycles. In standalone mode, the laptop runs less and less as the battery wears out. As a result, the battery cannot last even half an hour, and you decide to replace it. It is logical that the question is often asked: is it possible to somehow track the degree of wear of the laptop battery?
The following is an overview of programs to check the laptop battery, its condition and degree of wear.
Batterybar
This small utility is designed to track the remaining battery power of a laptop. It approximately calculates the time of its battery life, based on the indicators of "retention" of the charge.
The information window of this program for checking the status of the laptop battery after installation is fixed in the notification panel, where data on the battery level is displayed if the device is disconnected from the network. To obtain more complete information, the window can be expanded and, in addition to the remaining time, evaluate the exact state of the accumulated charge and other useful information.
The most useful feature of the Battery Bar is the ability to measure battery wear. The user interface is translated into Russian and is quite simple.
Functional Features
In addition to the standard version of BatteryBar, there is also an extended BatteryBar Pro. Developers added the ability to customize the appearance and update the version. The main window of the utility displays more information:
- assessment of battery wear;
- reflection in the notification panel of information about the remaining working time;
- You can deploy the program for more information.
- simple user-friendly interface;
- the ability to expand functionality and upgrade to the Pro version.
Smarter battery
A small but extremely useful utility for monitoring the status of a laptop battery and extending its performance. It keeps track of battery wear, shows a detailed history of all charge-discharge cycles and the number of their complete cycles. Using it, you can also quickly discharge a new battery or calibrate it.
This program for checking the laptop battery charge automatically reads out its status indicators and makes an analysis of the remaining battery life. Battery capacity is displayed in a graph with a scale of about 16 hours. This allows you to display the full battery life for almost any laptop.
Together with the sleep and shutdown commands, in the program menu, you can select the optimal power management scheme. This application will be extremely useful for all laptop owners, as it really helps to extend the battery life.
- the calibration menu displays the number of cores, processors and their workload;
- power schemes added to the battery menu;
- detailed logs about battery discharge have been improved;
- accurate timer, reflecting the remaining time until a full charge;
- quick discharge function and calibration.
One of the best
Thanks to the optimal settings of the laptop's power plan, you can extend the battery life. The BatteryCare laptop battery wear check program is considered one of the most popular for these purposes, but should be used with caution.
Using this simple utility, you can monitor charging cycles and charge status, and based on its results, configure the optimal power. The battery will last much longer thanks to this calibration.
- monitoring battery charge cycles;
- temperature measurement of the hard drive and processor;
- obtaining detailed information about the battery;
- control of system services and Windows Aero;
- automatic switching of power plans;
- automatic updates;
- displaying detailed information in the notification area;
- minimum disk space.
BatteryInfoView
This handy tool for laptops and netbooks displays extensive battery information. The information received includes the name of the battery manufacturer, its serial number, production date, voltage, current charge capacity, status (charging or not), full battery capacity and battery level.
BatteryInfoView can check laptop battery wear and maintain logs with detailed information about its condition. Logs are automatically recorded at the specified time interval. The application does not require installation, it works portable. By downloading the archive with Russification, the Russian language is installed.
Notebook Tools
The program for checking the battery of a laptop battery Eater Pro can accurately determine the critical battery life. To do this, just charge the battery as much as possible, start the program and turn off the laptop from the network.
This program will automatically detect the change in power supply and start working. To display the minimum battery time, it is necessary to set the maximum values in the screen settings, then turn off the device’s transition to sleep mode and screen blanking for a long period of time. In this way, you can only find out the minimum battery life of a device during battery life.
To determine more realistic parameters, it is necessary to select the appropriate "Simple" or "Reader" mode in this program to check the laptop battery. The testing process will stop only after the system is completely turned off. Now you can familiarize yourself with the report - it is saved in the report.html file and will become available after a reboot. The report will reflect not only the battery life, but also other parameters about the processor, manufacturer, type of battery, etc.
And one more thing: the longer you use this program to check the laptop battery, the more accurate the results that it gives.