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Is there a way i can recondition my laptop battery?

it doesnt’ last a long as it used to: 3hrs->15mins =(. thelast 30% drains unbelivably quickly. all settings are set to low and no unneccesary programs are running.
the battery is Li-Ion(lithium-ion)
the laptop is dell inspirion 8500

Hi there…

Professional battery equipment is needed to recondition any battery, and the LITHIUM ION are the most deadly ….
In battery shops accross the country, the service technicians will generally not TOUCH a lithium Ion.
Where I am located, there is a shop, and they tell me that they would have to install a fire-brick fume-hood, with explosion proof shielding, and other specialized bomb disposal stuff, before they could work on the Lithium ion batteries.
As one other answer stated, the batteries, despite being ” no memory ” unlike Nickle Cadmium batteries, which “remember” being both not fully charged, and not being fully drained, the Li Ion batteries just plain die. Another answer gives you a link to NI-Cads, which is useless. The charging and cycling of Li-Ion and Ni-Cad are completely different. With old Ni-cads, you can use an ordinary capacitor to zap the batteries back to life, once. The professionals use very sophisticated machinery to revitalize older Ni-Cads. Nickle Metal Hydride are in the middle of the pack, with a different set of characteristics.
YOUR batteries are the worst.

If over heated, they will bloat, crack, and gas will escape in a foot long flame that will cut through solid bone.. ie … it can ampute an arm or leg if you happen to get in the way. There are reports around the world of people being ” burned” and in the hospital, from Cell phone Li-Ion batteries. Cell phone Li-Ion batteries that are bloated are capable of cutting through the side of an airplane, including the hydraulics, frames, and wiring….

Unfortuneately, in your case, you are forced to just replace the battery pack… do not play with it!

In the future, you might want to charge the battery as often as you can – the battery WILL remember slowly dying by lack of use. If it is always kept charged, it will last longer. People are lazy and don’t bother to charge batteries until they ” have to “, and this will shorten the life of any battery.

Good luck

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