help, Rebuilding a better battery for no-name netbook.

Google how to bring a battery back to life.  There is a bunch of youtube videos on how to shock it back to life.  Or if you want to pay for a guide you can search it on eBay and a bunch of people sell tutorials.

I don't think shocking will help, I might need a new battery.

use kipkays battry hack

If its Lithium-Ion, shocking it would be extremely dangerous! its sort of ok to do to  nihm and a few other lead batt types, but always be prepared for explosion / splashback.

Rayjai; Try carefully opening the battery housing and see if you can find some identification on the cells you may be able to replace them. Just be careful and remember to replace them all as they are usually paired.

Or gut the battery shell and replace all the cells and charger circuitary, who knows you might end up with more runtime than it had as new. Alternatively  I think systm did an episode on improving laptop battery life using external sources a while back

Hi, I managed to crack open the case and this is what I found, it's so different from the guides out there. Does anyone know if i can add extra cells to it?

I can post more images if needed.

Thanks

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I would advise against adding additional cells, li-ion can be dangerously unpredictable especially cheaps ones and I doubt that controller could handle it. Google couldn't pull up any data on those part numbers, but these look like they might be a suitable replacement. Anything else would require ditching the lot and building from the ground up. Does the netbook have any identification numbers. Make/model?

thanks for getting back to me.

there is no marking ont he netbook, the netbook is a 10.1 inch knock off of the sony Viao P.

The battery sticker lists, Polymer Li-ion battery, Model L200, DC: 7.4v, 3800mah 25wh.

I took the laptop apart before and i forgot the model of the motherboard. i'm going to take it apart again to check.

do you know if I can use another type of battery instead of li-ion?

Thanks again!

you cannot use a different type of cell without replacing the controller aswell, and as its an unknown laptop it would be very hard to spec. I think your best options would be to locate two 3.7v 3800mah cells to replace the old ones, source a whole new battery or use an external power option.

Thanks,

it just needs to be li-ion right? does it need to be the same shape?

Well anything you can find that fits into the existing structure that is 3.7v 3800mah. I use li-ion cells in a lot of my projects, and these cheap cells never match up to their stated specifications, Replacing them will fix your issue.