Lenovo Ideapad Z510 - Weak Battery Problem - FIX

Lenovo Ideapad Z510 . I own that laptop. Its great for many things but falls on the short end when it comes to battery. Not only the battery life was sucky, after about 1 and a half years of use, the battery suddenly started showing unusual behavior.

Has this ever happened to you?

• Battery shows 100% then suddenly its 70% in a short time
• Wait a little bit more and it whittles down to 12% or lower
• And without any warning, the laptop just shuts off at one point
• THAT IS FRUSTRATING!
• I know
• I dealt with this shit for a while too

I was about to change the battery as it kept showing "Weak Battery! Please replace it" type of messages as pop-ups in my laptop. I would have probably changed the battery if it hadn't rained that day. 

So I went lazy and did had one of these moments:

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OKAY ENOUGH TALK; LETS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

You have to download these two things

• This Energy Manager Tool which is version 1.0.0.35 [Size: 58.7MB]
  (Although your version 1.0.0.31 tool tells you there are no new updates available.. HA!)
• And this NEWER battery firmware to tell your battery how to work. Its been in a constant hangover all this time lol

What you should do?

• Uninstall your previous Energy Manager software (likely version 1.0.0.31 which comes bundles with Lenovo CD while purchasing)
• Install THAT new version you just downloaded
• Now then restart
• If any problems occurs or any new error messages pop up; restart once more(those are traces of the old Energy Manager tool)
• Now thats out of the way, use the Battery Firmware tool that you just downloaded. (First Extract all from Zip and install. Don't directly try to run setup from inside the ZIP duh!)
• One restart and you should start seeing some magic!
• Goodluck!! -- not that you need this; it absolutely works! ;)

Tidbit: How to generate popup windows with DOS?

TO DISPLAY POP-UPS with DOS.

echo X=MsgBox("Message Description",0+16,"Title") >msg.vbs

–you can write any numbers from 0,1,2,3,4 instead of 0 (before the ‘+’ symbol) & here is the meaning of each number:

0 = Ok Button 
1 = Ok/Cancel Button 
2 = Abort/Retry/Ignore button 
3 = Yes/No/Cancel 
4 = Yes/No 

–you can write any numbers from 16,32,48,64 instead of 16 (after the ‘+’ symbol) & here is the meaning of each number:

16 – Critical Icon 
32 – Warning Icon
48 – Warning Message Icon
64 – Information Icon

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This itself is incomplete for any OS higher than Win XP, so u need to use this command afterwards,
msg * "msg"

Tidbit: How to prepare a bootable pendrive using diskpart?

DISKPART your pendrive (note: Your pendrive must support booting)

Plug your pendrive

1. Press windows Key + R to open "RUN"

2. type cmd.exe and hit enter.

3. type "list disk"

from the list that will be given, note your desired pendrive disk number. Identify this by looking at the disk size. Dont make a mistake or you'll lose your whole harddisk data. It generally should be number 1 or higher.

4.type "Select disk [x]" where x=the number you noted earlier.

5. type "clean"

6. type "create partition primary"

7. type "select partition 1"

8. type "active"

9. type "format fs=fat32"

10. type "assign"

11. type "exit"

Now extract the files from [.iso] copy directly to the newly formatted pendrive in the root drive (i.e don't put inside any folder in the pendrive)

NOTE: try typing "format fs=ntfs" if the earlier one doesnt work. But be warned, changing to NTFS reduces write-cycles.

Tidbit: How to turn off utorrent ads and offers?

To turn off utorrent ads and offers, 

open Options > Preferences > Advanced.

Here you'll find a large list of flags for the app and a filter box. 

Search for and disable the following flags:

offers.left_rail_offer_enabled/left_rail_offer
gui.show_plus_upsell
offers.sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled/sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled
bt.enable_pulse
gui.show_notorrents_node
offers.content_offer_autoexec

These flags may be named slightly differently depending on which version of the app you're using.

Tidbit 001 : How to make utorrent completely free of annoying ads

Utorrent is cool for everyone. It allows us to us torrents in the most optimized way. The basic version is FREE but at the cost of annoying ads everywhere on the UI. Here's a short tidbit to remove that once and for all! ^_^

To turn off utorrent ads and offers, 

• open Options > Preferences > Advanced.

Here you'll find a large list of flags for the app and a filter box. 



Search for and disable the following flags:

• offers.left_rail_offer_enabled / left_rail_offer
  
• gui.show_plus_upsell
  
• offers.sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled /sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled
  
• bt.enable_pulse
  
• gui.show_notorrents_node
  
• offers.content_offer_autoexec

These flags may be named slightly differently depending on which version of the app you're using.