Longer Battery Life?

[Lizidian]

OK, so recently my batterly life for my laptop (ill list specs below) has dropped drastically which isn't normal because I bought this lappy less then a year ago... The average battery life when I bought it was around 6-8 hours... which was awesome... now 8 months later I'm lucky if I can get 20 minutes... I've heard of resetting laptop batteries but Im not sure how to... anyone have any ideas how I could go about this?

Laptop Model: Dell Latitude D410

 

[Duwenbasden]

Your batteries are hosed... go change it.

I don't see how you can reset Li-Ion cells...

 

[Lizidian]

The dell tech support person at my school said it's possible to reset them after a while... it's not ''resetting'' per-say it's just a technique of making them get their max batter life again...

 

[Im_On_56k]

When you get a new laptop or something with a battery, make sure you use all of the battery life before recharging it. This will save a huge amount of life in your battery. Make sure you let it run out completely a good couple of times before recharging the battery while its only partial empty.

 

[Lizidian]

Um... well my computer was pretty much plugged into a power source for its first 3 months of existence... I guess it got a 'shock' when I got taken to school and barely got plugged in, but I never really let it go desperatly low... GOD DAMNIT! lol... so I'm screwed then eh?