Laptop-specific battery Guardian experience

In our laptops, there is one thing that is particularly noteworthy, and this is the battery. With it, we will not in the unexpected power outages, hard code out of the text will not be lost. But what's slightly different with other hardware is that you need to always take care of your batteries. For example, the battery should be properly cycled charge and discharge operation, to minimize some depth discharge times and so on. Only these seemingly trivial things, for today's busy people do not really good memory, so the latest version of the Golden Hill bodyguard 4.1 began to join a new module--pc battery Guardian.

1. Battery Testing

The battery defender is not a separate component, but a sub module in the Justin Yu defender 4.1 (currently in development), which can be entered directly through the top toolbar. Entering the interface for the first time is a bit like a computer checkup, and the software will require you to test the current battery first. Of course, the detection process is not what to say, after all, all programs are automatically run, all you have to do is click "immediately detect" and then stare at the screen.

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Test content includes "loss degree", "Full cycle charge", "Battery recall", "Battery temperature", "service Life", "Battery chip information detection", "charging threshold" and so on seven items, most are read through the battery chip. Of course, if your battery chip doesn't support it, you'll get the same picture as me--not shown.

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As I had expected, the battery on this computer is indeed some overload operation, the loss has been as high as 53%, it is no wonder that often used with the automatic power of the situation. And the battery guards also gave a general comment-"battery sub-health, more maintenance." Oh, it always sounds a bit like eat something to eat what!

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2. Battery Maintenance Skills

Although the so-called battery guardian, but the software does not have the built-in one-button charging and discharging function. After clicking on "Battery Maintenance", it gives just a simple battery life graph, by recording the daily loss of the battery, and then using the chart to show the loss.

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The bottom of the panel is a group of small knowledge about battery maintenance, divided into the truth and misunderstanding two panels, daily learning and learning is very helpful. If we do a standard cycle charge and discharge operation (use 20% and then recharge to 100%), the software will automatically write down this value, and in the top right-hand corner of the first tip of the next cycle charge time.

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3. Battery details

Battery panel to provide users with some basic information about the battery, divided into about two panels, which left for the battery data, the right side of the computer data. Some of the daily difficult to see battery information such as design power, battery voltage, battery power, etc., can be seen here. But as with the battery state, much of the content is derived from the battery chip, so different computers may display the same results.

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4. Scene mode

The battery defender's power scheme is similar to Win7 's, but its strength, compared to Windows 7, is that it provides a wealth of hardware controllability and an unprecedented addition to software control. Of course, this kind of control is not to let a software energy-saving operation, but only some of the currently not commonly used programs directly shut down (generally is the background program), of course, this shutdown is still more humane. In general, battery guards will only automatically turn off some of the most unusual software, and for network silver, Photoshop and other generic software are asked to close. In addition, you can also edit the software to close the list through the "Power Saving scheme" panel, as easily as setting up the startup software.

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As with Win7 power management, battery Guardian By default also provides "High-performance", "balanced", "long endurance" three power schemes, through the battery Guardian home can be quickly switched.

5. Right-click shortcut menu

In the taskbar system tray, the battery defender has added a power icon that can display the latest power in real time as the Win7 icon. However, compared with Win7, it is more powerful, such as we can directly through the right button to pull out the task panel. Here, you can change the power scheme one at a-click, quickly look at the battery loss, even it provides a set of hardware shortcut buttons to quickly turn off some of the less common hardware. Of course, like many similar features, at the top of the shortcut panel is the battery doctor's quick access, which also quickly enters the battery doctor's main interface.

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Postscript

The Golden Hill Battery Guard, in general, is a bit like a battery health notebook, helping users better maintain their batteries with simple state monitoring. But from the above article can be seen, the current battery guard function is relatively single, and there is no special maintenance features appear. In particular, its battery loss statistics, the result of the statistics is only to make an evaluation of users. Of course, because the module is still in the functional research and development period, the function of imperfect or sentient, but hope that the development group can be clear the original intention of the battery guardian, to avoid it to become a little use but also occupy the space of the chicken module.