WiFi, 2.1, and Battery Performance

Since 2.1 came out I seem to have some bad issues with WiFi and battery. If I leave WiFi on, plug my phone in, then go to bed, in four hours the phone is dead.
Currently, I've been on the phone for 3.5 hours with the phone plugged into AC. WiFi is enabled (so I can still get email), yet I just got a 20% warning.
It seems that now WiFi is always active. It is just chewing by battery away.

Read the output specifications on the old adapter. Do they match the new Adapter?
The new adapter provides 1 watt output. Is that the same?
Also, it seems to me your push is probably hozed. Are you pushing only email? or are you pushing calendar as well?
Someone posted the other day that a broken calendar on push can make the phone keep grinding and grinding and takes a lot of battery.
But you would thing that would affect 3G or edge as well.

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MfE and battery performance

We change our server and we start using exchange four our emails.
Before I tested the service with m2web.com and my E61 and everything was ok.
When I start using E61 with the new server the mobile discharge the battery in 9/12 hours.
Is any particular configuration that I've to suggest to our IT department?
Thanks, Marcello

I have been running the latest version of MfE and found the battery performance degraded badly.
After some investigation I found that this was caused by the new feature automatic heartbeat interval adjustment. Since I perform quite a lot of roaming and travel through areas with low coverage the heart beat interval was automatically adjusted to 1 minute. My battery only lasted for a day.
I reinstalled the previous version (MfE 2.0) and set the heartbeat manually to 10 minutes. All is OK and battery life is now again several days.

VoiceOver and Battery performance

I'm using new iPod nano with Voiceover. It more or less works (it has its quirks, but that's for another post), but I'm really disappointed by battery performance. I charged my nano today, and after one and half hour of using it, it's at 40%. I'm not just passively listening, but learning gestures, and finding my way around, but still... should it really be this bad?

I bought and Ipod nano 6th gen last week. The same day I bought it I noticed the battery was draining too fast. So I made a test>
As advertised the Ipod nano SHOULD give 24 hours of continuos playback.
I fully charged the Ipod battery on my computer.
I let the ipod playing music by itself, volume at half capacity.
After 6 hours the battery had lost 50% of the battery.
After 11 hours and 6 minutes the battery was almost drained (red color blinking )
I did the test 3 times and got almost the same results.
Im sending my Ipod back to apple.

Problems with camera, wifi antenna and battery

where can i get help for my problem?

Hello omarcortes13,
Thanks for contributing to the Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you are seeing issues with your iPhone 5 camera, wifi antenna and battery. I know it can be frustrating when hardware features are not behaving normally, and I have some resources that can help troubleshoot your iPhone.
You can find some very useful troubleshooting tips for the areas you mentioned at this link:
Get help with hardware features on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
Camera
Camera isn't working or has undesired image quality
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth issues
Issues with Wi-Fi networks and connection
Wi-Fi or Bluetooth settings grayed our or dim
Battery or charging issues
Get help charging your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
These links should provide a helpful starting point for troubleshooting. If the links I've mentioned don't resolve the situation, the article above suggests contacting Apple Support for more help.
If you still have an issue with your device, contact Apple Support.
Sincerely,
Jeremy

Replacement T61 WiFi and Battery

Hey Thinkpadders,
The short version:
I have a T61 7662-CTO 14.1" widescreen, circa 2007. I live in Australia and am looking to replace my wireless card and battery - from local suppliers if possible.
The long version:
My wireless card has been flakey since the day I recieved my laptop. The WiFi card in my system is an Atheros 11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter II (sorry i dont know the FRU). The card works most of the time BUT often does not wake up when I put my laptop to sleep. Occasionally it wont even work after a cold boot. The only way to get the wireless working is to reboot (sometimes more than once). Anyway this is extremely annoying. Originally I thought it was a driver issue. After four years, two motherboards and five operating system I am sure I just got a dodgy card and I should do something about it! What are my replacement options (preferably intel) and from where?
I would also like to replace my battery. It recently went from very low capacity to absolutely none. Now I cannot operate without AC for any length of time. The FRU of my battery is 42T5229. It is a 9 cell battery but i would like to replace it with the (cheaper) 6 cell equivalent. Where is the best place to get these? Are third party (non-lenovo) batteries dodgy?
Thanks all!
Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here!

Hello,
For the Wi-Fi card, you will want to make sure you get a model with a Lenovo FRU on it to ensure it is whitelisted in the BIOS. From looking at this driver change log on Lenovo's web site, I believe the Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (FRU: 42T0865) will work in your model of T61 but hopefully someone who has a 7662-CTO model will confirm this.
As far as the other questions about the battery and a local supplier, I am afraid I don't have a good answer there, but I am sure some of the other forum members can reply with answers to those questions.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
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HT4623 i update my iphone4s to ios6.2.1 and i lost wifi and battery do not last long

i update my iphone4s to ios6.2.1 and i lost wifi and battery do not last long

Same problem here. Updated iPhone and the battery doesn't last more than four hours before getting to 20% and needing a recharge. Apple needs to address this soon before customers start jumping ship.

Is there anyone with *better* battery performance on the 3GS?

OK, there are a lot of posts complaining about the 3GS battery life. I'm now curious to find out if there's a bad batch of batteries, or if it's a software issue involving all iPhone 3GS.
My question: is there anyone out there who's getting better battery performance on the 3GS when compared to the 3G, as advertised by Apple?
I understand that there are at least 3 kinds of battery issues showing up in this forum:
1. abysmal battery life caused by Exchange Push acting up
2. defective battery
3. "it seems a little worse than the 3G, something must be wrong"
There's nothing that can be done for categories 1 and 2, and I think it's interesting to talk about case 3.
Could it be that the 3GS battery indicator is simply more linear (and better calibrated) than the one on the 3G? I am one of those people experiencing subjectively worse battery life on my 3GS when compared to the 3G. But then I stopped and asked myself how I actually measure this.
Well, the difference is that the 3G stays at 100% much longer, then starts to go down very quickly. The 3GS, on the other hand, doesn't like staying at 100% and starts going down earlier but slower. But if I let them both drain, the performance at the end of the day will probably seem similar.
I tried to drain my 3GS with some heavy Safari surfing over WiFi and 3G, 30 minutes of 3G calls, using some third party apps, and with a 1-hour Peggle play. Then I finally played some videos, and it went dead after 5 hours of usage and 15 hours of stand by.
Is that the performance that can be expected, or can we hope for more? I never did the same test on the 3G, because I never noticed the battery meter going down like that, but I'm pretty sure it would turn out quite similar.
What do you think?

Battery performance depends on what you have running on your iPhone.
e.g. If you have Brightness set to high (or full) with Auto Dimming Disabled, Locations Services, Push Notification (set Fetch to Manually), Bluetooth, Wi-Fi (ask to join networks enabled too) and 3G all enabled your battery will get used a lot quicker, especially if you use Third Party Apps on top of all these other things.
If however you activate Wi-Fi when you want to use it, or Bluetooth etc as your needs require, battery performance will be better (as in your battery will last longer before requiring a charge). If you are on a low 3G coverage area, why have your iPhone constantly trying to join a 3G network? Switch 3G off and use the conventional carrier (2G) until you return to an area where you know 3G coverage is better.
I know these measures are less convenient than just having everything switched on, but if you want to maximise battery use between charges try activating the features you require when you require them, then disable them when you don't require them instead of having everything switched on permanently.
I have noticed when Push is enabled (3G has to be enabled also), it absolutely canes the battery

IPhone 4S Poor Battery Performance SOLVED!!

iPhone 4S Poor Battery Performance SOLVED!!
I found the issue with the iPhone 4S battery performance.
I bought 2 iPhone 4S models on the first day. One for my wife and one for me. The strange thing was that mine would kill the battery in 4-6 hours and ran VERY WARM to the touch. My wife's phone worked great. It was cold to the touch. She would forget to charge it at night... and the battery performance was great... even better than our prior 3GS models.
What was the difference? I have my phone connected to Exchange for my corporate email. But exchange is not exactly the problem. The issue is in Notification Center. For some reason, I had hundreds of calendar reminders that kept refreshing on notification center. Furthermore, the reminders would flicker between the time remaining and the start time for the event at such a fast rate that it could not be read... (clearly a bug)
What is the solution? Go to Settings>Notifications>Calendar and disable Notification Center. You can still have the "alert style" set to Banners, or Alerts and you will still receive notices about your events, but it will not BUILD a summary in the Notification Center drop down screen. This is where the BUG exists. [Oddly, this does not affect my iPad 2, but is an issue for iOS 5 on the iPhone (different builds, maybe?)]
So, it appears that Notification Center has an endless loop in collecting the calendar events from Exchange and this is burning up our 4S batteries. Once you stop the madness from Notification Center, your iPhone 4S will perform as advertised.
Enjoy!
Tim

TimothyW wrote:
iPhone 4S Poor Battery Performance SOLVED!!
I found the issue with the iPhone 4S battery performance.
I bought 2 iPhone 4S models on the first day. One for my wife and one for me. The strange thing was that mine would kill the battery in 4-6 hours and ran VERY WARM to the touch. My wife's phone worked great. It was cold to the touch. She would forget to charge it at night... and the battery performance was great... even better than our prior 3GS models.
What was the difference? I have my phone connected to Exchange for my corporate email. But exchange is not exactly the problem. The issue is in Notification Center. For some reason, I had hundreds of calendar reminders that kept refreshing on notification center. Furthermore, the reminders would flicker between the time remaining and the start time for the event at such a fast rate that it could not be read... (clearly a bug)
What is the solution? Go to Settings>Notifications>Calendar and disable Notification Center. You can still have the "alert style" set to Banners, or Alerts and you will still receive notices about your events, but it will not BUILD a summary in the Notification Center drop down screen. This is where the BUG exists. [Oddly, this does not affect my iPad 2, but is an issue for iOS 5 on the iPhone (different builds, maybe?)]
So, it appears that Notification Center has an endless loop in collecting the calendar events from Exchange and this is burning up our 4S batteries. Once you stop the madness from Notification Center, your iPhone 4S will perform as advertised.
Enjoy!
Tim
Check this out. They are stumpped:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/28/iphone-4s-battery-apple-enginee rs

Battery Performance

Hi all...how has battery performance been? Got my phone yesterday and charged it overnight. Barely used it today and it drained very fast.
I have turned off wi-fi...to see if that did anything but any idea how things are going?

Joe Raymond wrote:
I don't view it as "3G Sometimes". I've knocked my device down to Edge and have taken the stance of "3G when I need it". If it's truly a phone then for the majority of the day it should either be glued to your hip or our ear. If you want to use it as a substitute for your laptop then you should expect battery life to be like one.
Wellllll...not quite.
It's not just a phone, it's a phone and an iPod at the very least, and it's certainly marketed as more than just a phone. It's marketed as a phone, an ipod, an email checker and a web surfer.
My first take on your "if you're going to substitute it for your laptop then you should expect battery life to be like one" was "yeah, that makes sense," but on second thought, I disagree.
My 15-inch MacBook Pro laptop has what, 16x as large a screen? 5x the CPU clock cycles, and twice as many processors. My laptop has 20x the storage space on the disk. My laptop runs dozens of programs simultaneously without needeing to put them to sleep when I switch to another. My laptop has WiFi and a CDMA modem in it, and I can get 2-2.5 hours on it off the grid with a few power management tricks like dimming the screen and turning off WiFi even while connected to the CDMA network.
Given the significantly smaller size in all features and the supposed power-consumption friendly design of the iPhone, I think it's reasonable to expect that I can do laptop-like features on it with an expectation of greater than laptop-like battery life.

IPhone 5 Gaming Battery Performance

Hello all,
Just wondering how everyone is going with their iphone 5 and gaming battery performance.
I did a test last night with Fifa 13, which is pretty graphics intensive, to see how long the battery would last.
The phone went from 28% to 1% in 58 minutes of solid non stop gaming giving it about 3.5 hours of gaming time. Does this sound good to everyone? What kind of life are you getting?
Overall I've found the battery life good on wifi and crap on 3G which seems to be everyone's consensus.

No one has anything to add?

Iphone4 battery performance...

hi
im a new user so im just checking iphone 4 battery performance...
To be honest I expected a little bit more from this point of view...
I got a brand new phone and the the first full battery charge lasts 24 hours...
wifi and 3g mode-on but I made only few calls and internet searches...
What's the real standard?
http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

I'm afraid so does Damon. The iPhone has a Lithium-Polymer battery, which does does suffer any of the problems of NiCads or NiMH batteries. You can recharge the battery at any time, regardless of what its current charge is. It is impossible to overcharge it, it's a SMART phone it's sitting in.
A lot of apps are never open:
http://whenwillapple.com/blog/2010/04/19/iphone-os-4-multitasking-explained-agai n/
Why worry about the backlight? Life is too short. I offer you the only iPhone battery rule you will ever need:
If it's flat, charge it until it works. More if you like.

Instantaneous notebook power usage and battery life.....

How much power do ur notebook use while doing pretty basic day to day activiites like, an open PDF, one office docx, wifi ON and downloading something, a music player minimized and singing, some 10 tabs on chrome and/or mozilla open....???
I use "Batter care" utility to find out my power usage (only when in battery), its like 7.4W to 15Watt or above...I am not sure that's a realiable tool, but I found it gives an idea of it. Do anybody suggest anything better.,.??
Why I am asking this is that, I did a lot of driver updates lately and am afriand my power consumption have incresed by a few wats(4 or 5W)....Is it really possible..or jst my fear...??
Also, I hope the new Li-Ion based batteries needn't be cycled while using. ie I hope its not necessary to "Charge full->discharge almost completly >charge to max again" while using the devce right..??Does it hurt the battery to be charge from some random X% value to some randon y% only to discharge back to z% and so forth....??
(x!=z!=0, y!=100 :-P)
Also will It hurt if I keep it plugged and uses while its 100% charged ..? (assuming the tempeartures are resonable)

Hello qzyDO.
In regards to your various questions on the battery life for your notebook, I will direct you to a few links that you may find helpful and informational.
Improving Battery Performance (Windows 8, 7, Vista)
Rechargeable Battery Care as Fast As Possible
I hope these are able to help you.
Thanks for posting on the HP Forums.
I worked on behalf of HP.

Satellite P10-792 lock ups / crashes and battery

I have been using my P10-792 even since I bought it 3 year ago. Theres been a battery waning box that pops up on my screen (sometimes) saying that I should replace the wrong inserted battery and restart my computer. Theres also a mouse touch pad issue. It touchpad doesnt respond well to my commands while trying to move the pointer.
The battery-warning message usually comes along with the touch pad malfunction. I have to press esc several times to restore the touchpad back to normality and close the process application Btrychkr.exe under the CTRL+ALT+DEL menu to make the waning box go away.
But the major and most recently problem are the lockups, especially when running programs that require high video processing such as 3D games and DVDs. The screen freezes for several seconds before it comes back to life. This is sometimes followed by a sudden shut down.
Finally, when I try to turn it on, it doesnt even get to load windows before it shuts down again, and so on. So I have to wait several minutes before pushing the on button again. Now we have reached a critical situation where the computer wont last more than 10 minutes before it automatically shuts down without any previous notice. There are no error messages so I cannot see what the cause of the problem is. (Battery? Overheating?)
Its also important to notice that a friend of mine with a P10 series also had these same problems and eventually had to buy a new one because the laptop got just out of hand. Im afraid mine gets to the same situation.
How can I fix it?
I would really appreciate some help.
Thanks

Hi
You use you notebook since 3 years. Did you replace the battery during this 3years?
No? I think it would be a nice idea to change the battery.
Usually after about 500 times of charging and discharging procedures the battery performance going down and the life time decreases
Additional during these 3 years the notebook should be cleaned. The fans suck the dirt and dust and sometime the cooling modules cannot rotate with full performance and cannot cool the CPU and other devices.
Of course, the overheating could be a reason for your shut down problems
It sounds like you havent much experience so I think someone with more experience (technician) should clean the notebooks cooling modules

Data usage and battery drain has skyrocketed with iOS 8.1.2 (maybe earlier)

3 weeks ago my wife got a text message on her iPhone 5 from AT&T that she had used 90% of her data for the month. 30 seconds later, she got another one saying that she had used 100%. Granted, her data plan is small, 200 MB. But, for the last two years she has used as little as 17 MB in a month and her largest prior to this latest month was 49 mb. This month she got to 380 mb before we were able to shut off her cell data. Otherwise, a second chunk of 200 MB and another $15 would have been added to the month.
We had noticed that her battery had been draining rather rapidly in standby mode with no background apps running when she didn't have access to WiFi. We have now correlated the two results, High Cell data usage, Quick battery drain and very warm phone. In case anyone is wondering about her iPhone 5 being one in the recall, it is. I took it in and had it tested. Apple says the battery is fine. It does hold a charge well. When all network communications are shut down on her phone and it is in standby mode, there is no noticeable loss of charge in 24 hours (our longest test).
Since I have a grandfathered Unlimited Data Plan with AT&T, I have been doing some testing on my iPhone 5s. Sure enough, I've seen similar results. With nearly everything turned off except Cell Data, I've seen 483 MB used in 24 hours. Of that total, 479 MB was used for Documents & Sync. I even have everything turned off in my iCloud account, Location services are turned off, no push notifications etc...
The best I can figure, this has been a problem since we installed 8.1.2 and yesterday I installed 8.1.3 resulting in no positive effect on this issue.
At this rate of data usage and no access to WiFi, my wife would have to have a 15 Gb data plan to keep from exceeding her limit. I don't think AT&T even offers one that big anymore. I might have to switch to Sprint or T-Mobile if this doesn't get resolved.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your shared insights.

Hey this is Brian, bjmcmurry, under a different user ID. If I logged in as bmcmurry, original post, I was just getting a server error and couldn't get to this discussion nor post a comment anywhere.
Anyway, let me be as brief as I can. After an extensive analysis of replicating the problem on another phone to eliminate it being a hardware specific issue and that the test phone has an unlimited data plan, I was able to stop the excessive data usage and consequential battery drain. I believe I have a reasonable explanation of the problem, an iOS logic bug.
I had everything under my control clamped down on the test phone to minimize data usage. Also, I was forcing all data usage to use the cell towers. I determined that I was burning at least 11 to 13 Mb per hour doing nothing important. I literally had everything turned off except 'Settings' was allowed to use Cell data providing a avenue to log into the Apple ID.
The two phones had 2 things in common, they were using the same Apple ID and the same version of the OS. One was a iPhone 5 and the other was a 5s.
Here is a synopsis of my experience via my written evaluation of the Apple support system (Apple Rep name's have been removed):
After a couple of hours on the phone with an Apple Care Senior support Analyst, it was suggested that I go to the Apple Store to 1) get my battery replace in the iPhone 5 since it qualified for the replacement program and 2) see if the Genius could provide me with any insight in the data usage issue and battery drain.
I'm certainly glad I had multiple reasons to visit the closest Apple store, a 45 min drive. I got the battery replaced, thanks for that.
Regarding the important issue to me that brought me to the Genius Bar, excessive Cell data usage, I thought the Genius did a wonderful job listening and documenting the problem we were experiencing. Unfortunately, educating us on the use of the product or replacing our phone was not going to solve the problem. He eventually figured it out, this was not a user error or broken hardware. We surmised that the reason I was sent to him was to verify and document that there was a problem. I clearly had a problem. After writing copious notes on the issue, The Genius smartly referred me back the the AppleCare Senior Advisor. So, back to AppleCare Senior Analyst I went. She, knowing this was not a simple problem to solve i.e. beyond her level of expertise, got an Apple Software engineer involved.
My primary frustration is that this should have been escalated to software engineering right away. My trip to see the Genius was, I believe, a waste of time for both me and Apple regarding this issue. Diagnosis of this type of problem is well beyond the Genius’ knowledge and job. The Genius did a very good job doing what he could within the scope of his job. He just couldn’t solve this problem and had no one within Apple to which he had access for help.
However, that initial consult with the engineer was a bit feeble. Not only could I not talk to him/her directly, his/her focus was still working with the ‘Black Box' approach. Having Analyst ask me to do stuff like restore the Phone was more like trying to find a 'work around' than 'identifying the real problem.' Maybe restoring the phone was going to fix some corrupted data on the phone sidesteping the real problem, the handling of this condition. The engineer did listen to the fact that I had restored the test phone, the 5s, and only added the use of my Apple ID. Duh, been there!!!
Having been an previous owner of a software development company that I started in 1980 and retired in 2001, I can tell you that using the 'Black Box' method of debugging is extremely inefficient. Instead, having access to an ‘Activity Manager’ type app to identify in real time what process was blowing up the data flow would have saved me a lost afternoon at the Apple store and hours on the phone with tech support.
Ironically, I may have stumbled onto a "work around" solution short of turning off Cell Data that stopped the excessive Cell Data usage and consequential battery drain. Just prior to leaving the Apple Store, I used one of their Macs to log in my Apple ID on the id.apple.com website to ‘Manage my Apple ID’, I was forced to upgrade the security level of my password. Afterward, my cell data usage seemed to drop dramatically.
I told the AppleCare Senior Analyst that I may have stumbled onto a workaround and I suggested that I give it a couple of days of monitoring. We'd talk then and I would have results to report. She agreed.
Sure enough, my Document & Sync usage was back to normal, about 1/2 Mb per day. Am I happy that the excessive Cell Data usage has stopped? You bet! But, there was no intuitive reason that an end user would know to log in on the ID website to unknowingly solve this problem. As I use to say to my employees, that is not the ‘Macintosh Way.’ And, rebooting the the 'Microsoft Way.'
When I reported my findings to the Analyst, we both concluded that data usage was back to normal. She did report to me that the engineer did provide a laundry list of suggested activities to help solve the problem. Remarkably, they were everything that I had already done and were pretty much what the Analyst and the Genius tried to do. All reasonable tasks. But clearly, the engineer hadn't even ready the notes on the case before responding. And, none of the things suggested would have uncovered the real problem, likely a logic bug in iOS.
My advice now is to have the software engineering team rule out that there was an unresolvable state that a background process was fiercely trying to handle. The iOS does not seem to know how to intervene and prompt the user with a requirement to upgrade their password. If this does end up being the case, I would call it a logic bug, a perpetual exception that is not being handled properly.
Anyway, I hope this helps you.

Memory upgrades and battery scratches

Good afternoon all!
I couldn't find where to email Lenovo directly so unfortunately I'm going to have to post here.
I'm probably going to catch some flak for this but hey ho, so heres the thing, I bought two brand new Lenovo 3000 N100's 5 years ago, all good, they both came with a 512MB SO-DIMM and since I wanted more memory I bought 2x1GB SO-DIMM's which I put in mine and put the other 512MB in the other one giving mine 2GB of RAM and my mum's 1GB of RAM.
Doing this was easy peasy, unscrew *ONE* screw and the flap just slides out of the two slots on the opposite side of the flap to the screw. Job done.
Scroll forwards 5 years and times have moved on... a lot and it seems like we apparently need to MASSIVELY over engineer things now.
So I bought three Lenovo 3000 G570's, all good stuff and all came with 1x2GB and 1x4GB for a total of 6GB, all good but me being me and a Firefox tab whore, what with RAM being so awesomely cheap I decided what I was going to do was get 8GB (2x4GB) SO-DIMMS (Corsair), take out ALL my existing memory, put in the new Corsair 2x4GB SO-DIMMS, take out the 2GB SO-DIMM from the one I got my sister and put in my now spare 4GB SO-DIMM giving me 8GB of RAM, my sister 8GB of RAM, my mum sticks with 6GB of RAM and I have 2x2GB SO-DIMM's left over spare.
SO, my sister and mum have already unboxed theirs and all is well, I unboxed mine, flipped it over and there are no less than *FOUR* screws holding the flap in now, granted there is just one 'flap' covering the CPU/RAM/HDD/WIFI/etc so okay fair enough, it's a big 'flap' after all.
So I undo said four screws and I should just be able to slide the panel out now right? Wrong, obviously four screws were deemed not nearly enough to keep it in place, so there are now tabs which are actually clipped in around pretty much all sides of this panel.
Well okay this can't be difficult right? Wrong. Now I'm a firm believer in the notion that if it won't budge don't just keep applying more and more force until something breaks. So I'm looking all over this thing, testing it gently from different sides to see if I can prise it open but it's becoming quickly apparent that I'm expected to BEND the panel so I can get the tabs out around the sides!
MASSIVELY over engineered and COMPLETELY unnecessary, were the FOUR screws not already holding it in place okay? It certainly seemed that they were? Okay so I need to bend the panel to get the tabs out but I'm guessing it's a reasonably easy thing to do not requiring much force right? Wrong. So it became quickly apparent then I'm going to need quite a bit of force, the problem is it's the kind of force that requires a flat head screwdriver and despite my best efforts it was impossible not to mark the bottom of my nice shiny brand new laptop! But that's not the end of it.....
So I've undone the four screws and I've managed to bend the panel and prize out all that tabs as gently as possible all whilst doing my best to try not slip the screwdriver underneath the panel taking a nice stab at the motherboard/memory/CPU/wifi/etc underneath because that would just *really* make my day, so the four screws and numerous tabs would be it right? Wrong. It appears that there is something underneath the panel STILL holding on, "more tabs?!" I cry in despair as my engineering family background cries out "WHY LENOVO GODS? WHY?!!! Does this panel need to survive a thermonuclear explosion?! Does it need to stay on whilst being driven over by a tank?! WHY?!".
So I'm trying everything, gently wriggling it this way, wriggling it that way, lifting it this side, lifting it that side, EVERY conceivable way of removing the final tab underneath I tried.... and failed. I pour through all the manuals again, maybe I've missed something? Maybe I'm just being completely thick (it's not unknown to happen)? But no, the manual makes it sound as easy as breathing so I give it one last try, I lift the panel putting more and more force through it until eventually BANG it comes off.... and I sit there staring.... laptop on the table.... the panel in my hands.... and the now broken tab.....
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....wonderful.
With sigh I proceeded to install the new memory and replace the panel which now ironically goes on and comes off again SIGNIFICANTLY easier now the tab underneath has broken off and do you know what? The panel doesn't seem to have lost any of it's ability to stay in place? Funny that.
The other funny thing is that when I go to 'upgrade' my sisters laptop, the panel comes off EASILY! Maybe during assemble mine was done differently? Maybe the tolerances on mine just made it too tight to come off easily but with another sigh I go to put the battery in my new laptop so I can check all is well and what do I find?
The battery has scratches all over it:
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All three brand new laptop boxes had the Lenovo seal on them so the retail store couldn't have opened it and my sister's and mum's laptop's were all fine?
So dear Lenovo, I love buying your laptops, I've bought five already, I'd buy again but would you be so generous as to send me a new panel and battery? I'd really appreciate your help.
Regards,
Benji
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hey LondonBenji,
awesome post that looks like a TARDIS... "Bigger on the inside". Anyway, sorry to hear on what had happened, I suggest giving our support team a call via
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