A common issue on online forums for Lenovo Laptops are the battery life. Personally I have dealt with this problem on the Lenovo L340 Gaming Laptop. Most of Lenovo Laptops include a specification of around 7 to 8 hours of battery life for browsing, video watching and other day to day tasks. However, in forums, this battery life has been reduced to 2 hours from the high power draw from the processor and display. The following photos will describe ways to get a better battery life, of around 7 to 8 hours.
With the following modifications, it has led to 7 hours and 30 mins of browsing with just 86% power
1. Turning off Background apps in the privacy setting on Windows 10. Turning this off will prevent any unimportant apps from running such as calculator, Skype and bloatware.
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2. Going into control panel for battery management, additional power options can be chosen. When closing the laptop lid, or pressing the power button, the setting was changed from sleep to hibernate to preserve battery life while travelling. In addition, the graphics was changed to maximum battery life on battery mode.
3. One of the main settings that contributed to high power savings was minimum and maximum processor state. On battery mode, the minimum processor state was changed from 5% to 0 % and maximum processor state from 100% to 10%. On the L340, no major differences could be spotted by changing these settings, however did drastically increase battery life. Reducing the processor state prevents the CPU from being used to its fullest(draw the most power), thus benefits battery life and CPU lifetime.
