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    Battery meter always says "charging"

    I think it's normal, so I decided to ignore this message. I didn't notice any life reduction, I'm using this battery for 1 year.
  2. TimeMachine

    Battery meter always says "charging"

    If you say so I'll do that as it's much more convenient do not remove the battery :) Another question, a lot of people say that a laptop battery has around 1000 cycles of charge and discharge. If you do not remove the battery, each time you plug the AC adapter do you lose one battery cycle? and...
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    Battery meter always says "charging"

    Thanks a lot for your answer. I´ve made a extensive research about it, and besides Sony didn't recognize the issue, I found a lot of people that has differents Vaio series (like S, PCG, etc.) with the same issue. I´ve also used a software to measure the battery charge rate, and I found that...
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    Battery meter always says "charging"

    Hi, I have a sony laptop PCG k13, the windows XP battery meter always says "charging" even when battery is fully charge (100%). Is this normal? How can I fix it? Thanks a lot
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    Does a notebook battery discharge by itself?

    Thanks guys, I've found a solution, I've made a switch that turns the battery on and off, ie this switch cuts the positive and the negative connection with the power card inside the notebook that controls the process of charging. So now when I want to leave the battery inside the computer and...
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    Does a notebook battery discharge by itself?

    I know that every rechargeble battery discharge by itself if its unpluged, but my problem is: when this battery is in the notebook, it lost almost 1% of charge per hour, I mean, I let a charged battery (100%) in my notebook and 12hours later, it has 88% of its charge. If I do the same, but I...

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