What to do for broken battery?

The battery to my notebook broke a couple months ago, I've been busy lately and also haven't been in that big of a need of it, but I finally got on here to ask. I got my notebook less than a year ago, probably around 10 months ago, is there a warrenty or anything on these? And if there is do I call HP or just take it back to best buy? Thanks.

bcbaker91 wrote:
It doesn't work, I know when i'm not plugged it wont turn on or charge and the computer told me the battery failed and wasn't working.
OK. That is far more understandable than broken.
If:
1) Your notebook is still in warranty (you can check that in the BIOS in the System information screen)
The standard warranty is one year from purchase date.
2) The HP Support Assistant or HP Advisor has reported that your battery has failed and given you a Warranty reference number to use when contacting HP then it is unlikely that a replacement will cost you anything at all.
Best regards,
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BTW, statements like
"Use the device until the battery has drained to the point of self-shutdown. Basically, use it until it turns itself off."
in articles like the one at http://www.macblend.com/how-to-calibrate-your-mac-iphone-or-ipad-battery/ are complete BS and if you do follow their "advice", your battery life will be severely hampered. Particularly if you also follow one of the comments: "Step One.One: Leave the device for 5+ hours before start charging. This will fully drain the battery." Well, the guy that advised the latter certanly doesn't know anyhting about lithium batteries and the damage deep discharging does to them.
Again, what the article (and the above-cited comment) advices is complete b*llsh*t and noone should really do this.

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I use my macbook alot, like 8 hours a day. So I was wondering what would be the best for my battery.
Should I always connect it to the adapter. Or should I use it on the batterypower and charge it when its underneath 20%.
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The consensus here seems to be: (1) that it's quite ok to leave it plugged in; (2) It is good to use the battery occasionally, per
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Have a new HP311. I want to know what is the best treatment for the battery. Should I just leave it in the machine while I am using it off the mains power or should I remove it while running on mains or should I charge it up and use the machine off battery and then recharge. I'm new to this.

It is a matter of opinion as far as removing it or leaving it in. If you leave the battery in and plug it in and unplug it frequently the capacitors could read incorrectly and think that the battery is charged to 100% when it is not. This is only a temp issue. Calibrating the battery will resolve this. If you leave the battery out of the machine it could get lost, or give your notebook more spaces to get dust in it. Personally I always advise to leave batterys in for this reason. Charles informed you to leave it out which is not incorrect either. The notebook will run a bit faster on ac power and your graphics performance will be increased(with battery in or without) and you should not run into the memory issue. It is a matter of choice. You can run a battery check in the Total Care advisor and if it needs calibration because you leave it in often and it should link you to the steps if needed.
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Of course,just take it back into service:
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LisetteMeulman wrote:
Is it better to charge the battery fully and let it empty completely, or charge it again befor it is empty ?
NEVER EVER empty it. Ever. Nothing will destroy a lithium quicker.
General consideration of your MacBook battery
Contrary to popular myths about notebook batteries, there is protection circuitry in your Macbook and therefore you cannot ‘overcharge’ your notebook when plugged in and already fully charged.
However if you do not plan on using your notebook for several hours, turn it off (plugged in or otherwise), since you do not want your Macbook ‘both always plugged in and in sleep mode’.
Do not perform “battery calibration” on your current Macbook. There is no calibration of current Apple portable Macbooks with built-in batteries.
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All batteries in any device are a consumable meant to be replaced eventually after much time, even under perfect use conditions.
If the massive amount of data that exists on lithium batteries were to be condensed into a simplex, helpful, and memorable bit of information it would be:
1. While realistically a bit impractical during normal everyday use, a lithium battery's longevity and its chemistry's health is most happy swinging back and forth between 20% and 85% charge roughly.
2. Do not purposefully drain your battery very low (10% and less), and do not keep them charged often or always high (100%).
3. Lithium batteries do not like the following:
A: Deep discharges, as meaning roughly 10% or less. Avoid this in all instances if you can. This is hard on your battery.
B: Rapid discharges as referring to energy intensive gaming on battery on a frequent basis (in which case while gaming, if possible, do same on power rather than battery).
C: Constant inflation, as meaning always or most often on charge, and certainly not both in sleep mode and on charge always or often.
From Apple on batteries:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1446
"Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time."

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I just recently returned an IPad air and exchanged it for another. I first set up this new one as a new IPad but then deleted all content and settings right away (since I wasn't getting the progress I had made in apps and games) in order to restore it from my previous IPad Air. I then checked after on how to backup via icloud and saw this line under the subtitle of how to restore from a backup, "For best battery performance, leave your device connected to a power source until the restore is complete." What does Apple mean by "for best battery performance"? Im just a bit worried of issues.
p.s. And yes I did have it connected to the power. And the ios is the default ios for new IPad Airs.

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