Battery draining too fast

[AbdelHakim06]

Hey everyone

Got my Omen 16 (rtc 4060, i7 13620H) a year ago, after several months of low amount of use I'm using it for university, but I stumbled upon a big problem, my battery is draining way too fast. It goes from fully charged to 0 in almost 2 hours which was not what was described, when I first bought it it lasted about 7 hours when browsing and doing some other light stuff, now it doesn't last 2 hours with just browsing. I have tried everything to resolve this problem, from lowering max CPU usage, to turning off hardware acceleration to disabling the GPU, updating BIOS. I've also almost no background apps running. 

I really love this laptop, it's powerfull, temps are more than great even when gaming and the quality of the product is fantastic, but this problem is really annoying and will get me in trouble over the coming months, hope there is a solution for this, because it doesn't seem something straightforward.

Thanks for helping in advance!

AbdelHakim Chibani

[erico]

Since you have decided to use a powerful and power hungry laptop for university,  there are  choices you will have to make. Otherwise, two  to three hours is probably the max stand-alone use you will get.

Go to power options and choose best power efficiency

Turn on dark mode.

lower the screen brightness

There must be some app or service running in the background that is using battery power.

Open the Task Manager and take a look to see what is eating up processor time.

You should take a look at the Windows Battery- report and see if the issue is actually the battery no longer in peak form.

Take a read of the knowledge base article I wrote. I explained how to invoke and use Windows  battery report to get a picture of the condition of your laptop's battery.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Knowledge-Base/Use-the-Windows-Battery-Report-utility-to-und...