Simple tips for longer Toshiba pa3534u-1brs laptop battery life

In the quest for all-day laptop battery life,  these are a few simple tips you can follow to keep your Toshiba pa3534u-1brs laptop battery last longer.

Defragment your Hard Drive Periodically

Keep laptop battery Cool &  Clean

Clean out your Toshiba pa3534u-1brs battery’s metal contacts every once in a while with a soft cloth damped with rubbing alcohol. This will make power transfer from your battery to the laptop more efficient. Clean out the air vents so that air can circulate freely and so that the temperature does not rise too high. Remember – unwarranted heating is a slow but sure killer of battery life.

You can invest in a cooling pad or prop up your laptop on books and pillows to this end.

Turn your screen brightness down

The most obvious has the most impact. Running at around 40 per cent is still quite usable on most laptops, and will give you a lot more time. In Windows 7, you can also set how quickly the screen will dim or turn off when not in use by right clicking on the battery icon in the system tray and choosing Power Options.

Apple has long removed brightness preferences for battery mode and power adapter mode, preferring to set things automatically, based on ambient light. The closest you’ll get to control is to stop it using automatic brightness settings by going to System Preferences > Display, and setting your own low setting or using the keyboard shortcuts.

Turn off radios

Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WWAN — unless you’re using them. Many Windows laptops offer keyboard shortcuts to turn off radios, although, in some cases, you’ll have to head to Device Manager to disable them.

To turn off Wi-Fi on your Mac, click the AirPort (Wi-Fi) icon at the top right of your menu bar, and select Turn Wi-Fi off. You can do the same for Bluetooth.

Radios are less of a deal on laptops than smartphones, in terms of consumption, but every bit counts.

Unplug any USB devices

Many laptops allow you to adjust battery power saving features on USB ports, too — we’d suggest investigating your vendor’s own power management tool to see if the option exists.

Close any unused programs

Make sure to head to check your system tray/menu bar for background processes, as well. The less work the machine has to do, the less Toshiba pa3534u-1brs laptop battery it will chew up.

Turn off sound

It won’t make a huge difference, but muting your laptop when sound’s not required, or at the very least lowering the volume when playing music, will scrape back a little more power.

Spend time in your vendor’s power-management tool

Toshiba laptop allow user to engage in power saving activities, like turning off optical drive and setting more advanced power plans.

Spend time in your OS power-management tool

For Windows users, right click on the battery icon in the system tray and choose Power Options. You should now be able to tweak your power plans to your heart’s desire by clicking Change plan settings, then Change advanced power settings.

Get a higher-capacity Toshiba pa3534u-1bas extended life battery

Not everyone has this option — certainly, you won’t if you don’t have a removable battery, as is the case with all MacBooks and ultrabooks. Check with your vendor to see if a battery exists with a higher mAH or WHr rating than your existing one.

Check your Toshiba laptop battery health

Batteries can lose their ability to reach full charge pretty quickly, if treated harshly (check out some tips to maximise battery lifespan here) — even on laptops that come with more than a year’s warranty, companies generally only give one year on the battery.