Battery Health Manager for HP Pavilion Power 15

[bottedumal]

Hello,

I'd like to know if Pavilion Power 15 model is going to be integrated in Battery Health Manager software.

Indeed there doesn't seem to be reason for it not to be (I barely see other than planned obsolescence), when most manufacturers propose it for years (for instance my 2012 lenovo x230t always had it available - and the battery still had most of its capacity in 2018).

My 2018 HP Pavilion Power 15 have dead battery after 1 year. Same for most others who use it plugged most of the time, in a forum talking about that model. We are in a front of a bad conception problem from my point of view. Any plan to improve that HP ?

Thanks in advance,

Regards

[banhien]

@bottedumal 

HP does have Battery Health Manager software but only for Business machines

          https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06179452

more info

        https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06465959

        https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c01297640

For normal machines, please use

      https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c04700771

Regards.

[bottedumal]

Hello,

Thanks for your answer. Indeed I saw that battery health manager was dedicated to some machines, my question was more why. It would be interesting to understand this decision of HP, as on "non-business" machine, the battery is dying in one year for what seems a volunteer non-implementation of it (really sounds as programmed obscolescence).

The link you give for "normal machines" does not solve the problem, as it does not avoid the premature usure of batteries which still charge to 100%.

Regards

[Jt97]

I am replying just be sure I have understood: is HP providing a battery health manager Systems only and uniquely for business machines, while every other brand provides it for every laptop(even for the cheapest one)?

PS: for a battery health manager Systems I intend of course a Systems able to keep the battery at best state of charge ( It should be between 50% and 80%) while the PC is plugged for charging.

[bottedumal]

Yes sir, you got it right.

In these terms I don't recommend anyone to buy this brand. I am highly disapointed.

It's oubviously a way to have people buying again laptops, or buying new batteries. because the implementation of it is just a simple piece of software, which any laptop would support.

instead, we have dying battery, loosing money and the environment.

not surprised that HP didn't even comment here.

[bottedumal]

as an alternative to this sad commercial politic, I am thinking, once i''ll have change the battery, to put a programmable plug that would alternate on/off cycle to keep the battery in less-damaging range (50-80 like you mentionned).

painful solution but it's the only one I see, and i'll make sure my next laptop is from another brand 🙂