New Aspire 7 , 1650, i5 9th gen BATTERY CONFUSION.

Allone
Allone Member Posts: 3 New User
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so i bought this brand new acer aspire 7 and my battery life lasts for maximum 2 hours on 99% charge. Is This normal?
Also, i did not get an original acer charger with the laptop, 
the do not break seal isn't on the screw , it has been placed on the side,
am i over thinking it? or is there something i should do about it 

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  • Leostat
    Leostat ACE Posts: 3,043 Pathfinder
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    If you look under start -> battery saver it tries to guess whats using all the power, also if you run the following command windows will generate a report to tell you battery health to check its not a bad battery
    powercfg /batteryreport

    Things to look out for which eat battery as well is AV (linus did a video recently which showed this, 9h11 without, 1 hour with!) and chrome / background apps. Chrome is very power heavy

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  • dineshcs2004
    dineshcs2004 Member Posts: 1 New User
    I have bought Acer aspire 7 Core i5 9th generation battery back up is worst, it's hardly lasting for 3 hours, worst back up I have seen, brand new laptop .. And now I'm unable to get any help from Flipkart as I have bought it from flipkart.. Finally they're asking me to get the job sheet to help me.. its really strange..
  • Leostat
    Leostat ACE Posts: 3,043 Pathfinder
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    If you look under start -> battery saver it tries to guess whats using all the power, also if you run the following command windows will generate a report to tell you battery health to check its not a bad battery
    powercfg /batteryreport

    Things to look out for which eat battery as well is AV (linus did a video recently which showed this, 9h11 without, 1 hour with!) and chrome / background apps. Chrome is very power heavy
  • Allone
    Allone Member Posts: 3 New User
    still, 1.5 hours is  little too less
  • Leostat
    Leostat ACE Posts: 3,043 Pathfinder
    edited January 2021
    It is a tad low, which is why its worth checking if its software or hardware causing it :), if its is the AV, its a instant win!
  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,774 Pathfinder
    Leostat said:
    It is a tad low, which is why its worth checking if its software or hardware causing it :), if its is the AV, its a instant win!
    By AV, you mean antivirus? If you are trying to say AV is the battery hog, something wrong with it. Almost all my laptops have had and still have Avast Internet Security for little less than a decade now, and never faced this issue. I do get good battery backups on all my laptops. For example my Nitro 7 - AN715-51 gives me about 6 hours.

    And yes, Chrome. Infact on literally all my laptops I do not have Chrome at all. Even on those that it is present, it is set to "hibernate" mode when not in use - hibernate mode as in all its tasks and services disabled.
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  • Leostat
    Leostat ACE Posts: 3,043 Pathfinder
    edited January 2021
    Aye anti-virus, they all have different effects, but some can have a massive impact, I think my predator came with I think Symantec which uses the same engine as Norton, its very inefficient on laptops, and could be what's causing this :), not all AV's are that heavy of course some are just about ok, some are absolutely fine. 

    The source for the Norton badness, 6:30 in:
    https://youtu.be/kRAGtV-WpIg?t=391
     1h:35m on the benchmark with Norton, to 5h:55m once it had been removed. My bad on getting the numbers wrong above :) 

    The best thing to check is the windows battery tool as that should have a good guestimate about whats hogging the juice, on my laptop its the overwolf launcher and Discord which use over 40% of the battery!
  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,774 Pathfinder
    edited January 2021
    Leostat said:
    The source for the Norton badness, 6:30 in:
     1h:35m on the benchmark with Norton, to 5h:55m once it had been removed. My bad on getting the numbers wrong above :)
    Any antivirus that gets bundled with a laptop as a trial - norton, mcafee, whatever is among the list of software that goes away when i start uninstalling bloatware - i consider these too as bloatware.
    One item i would like to bring up here... the components... you do not need to install all components of antivirus. For example, I do not use a mail client on my laptop and so i do not need the mail checking component.

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