Battery damage?

[50ShadesOfDJWS]

Hi I've had the surface 2 since almost Christmas and I've been using quite often,
Now I've also used it when it's charging for the past 2-ish weeks for long periods of time, and I have noticed battery depleting a bit quicker than usual, would this mean the battery is damaged or am I just fretting for nothing? If anyone could help that'd be great, thnx

 

[50ShadesOfDJWS]

Re: Baery damage?

Omg I meant Battery*

 

[DennisvdG]

Lol you can still change that if you edit the initial post, and concerning your question, I'm no expert on the sp2 but I think you're fretting for nothing

 

[monkeypimp]

you can run a battery report and it will give you a ton of information regarding your battery.

Go to the desktop and then click search and type command prompt and select it. In the blackbox type "Powercfg -Batteryreport" it will run and then save a report at C: \users\YOURNAME\battery-report.html

I used it over the course of a month along with a Microsoft CS rep and we determined my battery was failing and they swapped my Surface.

 

[Cobb]

Theres a new update coming out tomorrow to address battery issues, wifi, connectivity, etc. Id just wait another day and update it first.

 

[RajeevT]

Theres a new update coming out tomorrow to address battery issues, wifi, connectivity, etc.

For the Surface 2? Where did you read about this?

 

[Cobb]

Beats me, I read a lot of news site. Cnet, zdnet, maybe?

 

[exkerZ]

Hey 50shades. How is your battery problem going?

 

[exkerZ]

Try a restart if you haven't already.

 

[Cobb]

Sadly, rebooting to see if it works fixes a lot of my issues with the surface 2 ie windows 8.1. I had hope that was something no longer needed as I am still using 98se on my desktop.

 

[RobWuu]

Just posted a question about battery life on the forum before looking at your question.
It seems the latest NVIDIA drivers are drawing more power, also while in idle.

You might seeing the same thing:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/mi...july-system-updates-tegra-gfx-usage-high.html