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jester5537
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My dell's battery is dying and refuses to charge unless I fuck with the damn wire (charger works perfectly on my brother's dell). I know how to and have replaced dell batteries for similar models before on multiple occasions when I was a tech assistant in high school only 3 years ago but my dell warrenty won't mail me a battery for me to replace myself. Instead requiring I send them my laptop (can't since it my laptop I use for college work and can't go without it for a week or two unless I want to fail out). So guess I have to fucking find a battery on Amazon and spend money doing what my warrenty should cover

I understand why they don't allow users to do their own repairs. I'm just annoyed at having to find the battery online and spend money

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    5y
    Im with dell on this one. Cant you bring it in a dell center? They replaced my mobo in 3 days.
  • 1
    5y
    Asus is the same damn way. I can install ram and a drive. During the install you unplug and remove the battery. Yet I cannot replace the battery on my own? What the actual fuck? We need to do what the auto industry has done and force vendors to create serviceable electronics.
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    5y
    If the charger is ok, it's the connector on the laptop, and that is usually not part of the battery. A new battery wont help you.
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    5y
    @ddephor This. It's very likely the connector / "charging port" that's damaged. You could likely fix it via soldering, but you can damage things very easily if you don't know what you're doing.
  • 0
    5y
    Sounds like it's a problem with the connection point either on the wire or the laptop itself. I'd try looking at that first.
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    5y
    Well your options are clear you can either mail your laptop and get a free battery or you can buy a battery online replace at yourself and cut your losses. With any reasonable developer salary a new battery should be a small expense hell a new laptop should 😶
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    5y
    @Root Sometimes it's not that easy. I have my old Thinkpad still lying around that had exactly that issue. But it was nearly impossible to get to the connector soldering points with reasonable effort. I started to disassemble the whole device, including unmounting display and several PCBs, and still there was something in the way.

    So at the end I bought a new Thinkpad, as this one was already old enough anyway.
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