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Dell Venue 8 battery maintenance
Is it a good idea to drain the Dell Venue 8's battery from time to time, as you would with a laptop?
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Is it a good idea to drain the Dell Venue 8's battery from time to time, as you would with a laptop?
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St. Lamar
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March 6th, 2014 11:00
Hi again, Buzz,
I haven't done this in years. Lithium-ion batteries in general, and the LiPo or Lithium-Poly batteries in our Venues, don't develop a memory and therefore don't care about what power level they are at when recharged.
About the only reason to fully discharge one these days is to reset the "fuel gauge" if the remaining battery percentage is way off. That's based on the "smart battery" technology that entered laptops a few years ago, and I'm not even sure that that reason is still valid. Maybe smart batteries are smarter now and we don't even need to worry about that.