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	GeneralAntilles	2009-11-27 , 04:57
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Originally Posted by jjx

Note that some people, in other threads, are advising against cycling the battery all the way down. I've no idea what to believe.

The complete cycle method is generally used to calibrate the charging circuitry in multicell laptop batteries, as the batteries in mobile devices like ours generally only have a single cell it's actually pointless (and marginally harmfu) to do complete discharge cycles (as there's nothing to calibrate).

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