How to prolong your DELL Vostro V131 laptop battery life
New battery needs charging and discharging cycle first before the regular usage. Because laptop battery from factory to the users' hands that exists the time differences, and the electrode materials will be its passivation for the battery of the longer time difference, which is why the purchase of new batteries need to be completely filled with charging and discharging cycle three times to eliminate electrode materials passivation, to activate Vostro V131 battery performance, to reach maximum capacity. 1. Please recharge when power left less than 5%. Don't wait run out and then recharge. 2. Try Li-ion DELL Vostro V131 battery for your laptop. It can work long time than Non Li-Ion one. 3. Keep your laptop defragmentation regularly to prolong the laptop battery life. 4. Use some hard drive and optical drive spin-down software to reduce the power consumpition of laptop. 5. When long time without using laptop, Keep it in standby or sleep mode. It can both save the power and extend the DELL Vostro V131 notebook battery life. 6. Store your battery in a cool and dry place when don't use. 7. If you usually keep your laptop plugged in fixed power or rarely use it. Please take down your battery. If not, it will hurt the battery life.