Is the LOQ the budget gaming laptops they make? I was curious about them how is it? Is the screen bright enough ?

Had 2021 Lenovo legion 5 with rtx 3070 for 3 years and battery even after 3 years was still holding charge for few hours. ive beat many games always plugged in. never cared about battery life health. I am certain lenovo standard warrenty you can see inside vintage app also covers battery if it fails. on ebay new battery for lenovo laptops sells around £50. is it worth stressing about it? No.

...you could add disabling ryzens cpu boost

You can also get more control over your Ryzen APU using the AMD APU Tuning Utility. I set mine to 25 W absolute max, and still boost over 4 GHz. Runs cool and quiet even on a Legion S7.

Can you do an Intel version? Thank you! Also add disable iCue for the people that have it ..kills a good 50% of battery lol .

Upvoting because a guide that doesn't turn down the brightness down to unusable levels.

Disabling the page file will haunt you in games such as warzone.

The battery estimate is based on your usage at the moment. When you start to use it, the battery starts to drop at a faster rate and the remaining hours will be adjusted accordingly. That's why you're seeing the true value around 2 hours after a while.

Your chipset from Intel is not exactly very power efficient and it consumes a lot of power even in light loads. Comparatively, Ryzen CPUs with an iGPU consumes less power. That's why users with Ryzen LOQs (with igpus) have more battery runtimes. I've measures up to 7 hours running a YT video within audio. It's not a realistic usage but that's around the max you can get at the lightest load.

Your laptop is just going idle state. Those estimates are based on idle state. If you keep using it, its on its normal power hence the 2 hours.

Try just keeping it on and do nothing after you get a high battery estimate like that, you'd see it last 5 hours

A 60whr battery cannot last that much with these specs. The windows estimate is known to be inaccurate for decades now, don't trust it. And you cannot get more than 3 hours out of this 60whr battery.

Same problem man

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Sorry to say it's not possible for LOQ to give 3+ hrs battery backup.

60 whr battery will give 3hrs if you consume 20w of power. Set the processor + igpu watts to 15w and screen should consume 5w.

For the first time the sales person didn't do you bad

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I am in the same boat.. battery life isn't so great after making all those changes you did

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Well, it's an Intel HX pretty power-hungry. Hitting 10 hours of battery life is unlikely. With a Ryzen, it's doable though.

Use conservation mode, battery only charges to 60%

Yes, it looks like most of those things will make it last longer. But there is something to be said for using it as its intended.

Your battery is going to degrade regardless of what you do. You will slow it down but you can't stop it. It's worth considering if the cost of a new battery is easier to pay in a few years instead of having to babysit it constantly.

This is a gaming laptop, you’re not even using the battery anyways. 

This is too much. It's fine if you reach 0% and 100% sometimes. Just avoid it.

Use the battery limiter option and use the laptop plugged in all the time if you don't mind. Charger bypasses charging and only power the components.

The thing is with laptops is that they're not designed to be kept on a software surface like a blanket or your lap. It blocks the vents. Dust particles especially from blankets build up and affects the cooling. So it's just safer to use it on a table.

You shouldn't need a cooling pad or external fans unless your laptop overheats.

Regularly open the laptop and clean the dust build up in the fans and vents.

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80% myth is a myth, so I see the myth gotchya because it's a myth. Myth.

This is actually super legit. Thank you a bunch for sharing! I think this should be a pinned post in this subreddit!

This also appears to be a Lenovo firmware function. I'd assume it's the same as disabling the dGPU in bios. And is done via the EC. To quote the the github page of the program: All above settings are using built in functions of the EC and how well they work relies on Lenovo's firmware implementation. (with "above settings" talking about the dGPU options)

Thanks for the info, I just installed the application and set it to Hybrid-Auto as you said, and it does look like it is helping, currently my battery status is showing 77% remaining with 3h 21min.

As some of the replies have said, Optimus mode still keeps the dGPU on and sometimes draws power in my case, but the Hybrid-Auto setting in Legion Toolkit completely turns it off on battery, and reconnects it when plugged in.

That's a great find, thank you. I've found that Zoom uses dGPU even if it's not reported in Nvidia indicator, and even if you force it to use iGPU.

Turning on Hybrid-iGPU (or Auto) brought down power draw from 37W to 12W when using Zoom.

I wonder how many times dGPU was waking up for no reason

Hybrid is, but Hybrid-Auto as the OP said is not.
I've tested it and it really turns off the dGPU on battery mode, when I go to any Nvidia app it doesn't find any card.

You are maybe right, but I did see that dGPU firing up frequently for a short period of time even with Optimus. There is a chance that there is a bug in Optimus implementation and the OP's proposal could work. I will at least try haha

Hey there. Using the YP9i w/ 4060 and IPS display. Here are some tips for increasing battery life:

If you search for graphic settings in windows (or system > display > graphics), scroll down to "custom settings for applications" and you can assign which GPU is used for each app using the "add desktop app" and "add Microsoft store app" selections. Once you add your app, you'll see it added to the list. Just click the app in the list and you'll see GPU preference.

For instance, I have the iGPU (Intel ARC) assigned to chrome, slack, MS teams, Xbox app, steam app, Google drive, one drive, etc, and the Nvidia GPU is assigned to all my games and Adobe creator apps.

Also, to control how much power your processor is using on battery....control panel > system and security > power options > change plan settings > changed advanced settings > processor power management > maximum process state > on battery > set it to number between 30 and 50. I keep mine at 50 and it helps a lot. I don't notice and dip in performance during normal usage (using chrome, creating documents in word/excel, using slack, watching movies, etc). I'm consistently getting about 8-10 hours of battery life for normal use w/ 60hz and 50% display brightness. Granted, I have the IPS display which is less power hungry than the mini led, but these settings should still help you get better battery life. If you need to use the Nvidia GPU for any programs, always make sure to just plug in your laptop.

Lastly, FN + Q (toggle battery mode), FN + R (toggle refresh rate). I use those shortcuts daily.

Set the charge threshold 'ceiling' to 95% in Lenovo Vantage App, and threshold 'floor' to 5% in Windows Advanced Power Settings for everyday use. That should allow you to use 90% of the battery capacity and degrade it very little long-term.

For long term storage like during travel when you leave it at home, set the battery to 70% charge and turn off.

I never do anything special with my batteries and they seem to last just as long as anyone else's that I've heard about. I've got batteries in my X60, T61, Z61t, and T420 that are around 85-90% of design capacity. I really don't think this battery threshold thing accomplishes anything other than making it a pain to use the system.

Set max charge to 80-85%. Charge 10-20%. Ok to top off 100% before taking it mobile. If it’s gonna rest for a while leave it 60-70%. Cooler the better.

I set my battery to 70% and it's health has been very steady. Lithium ion likes to be in the middle of it's charge range. It's not like nickel cadmium or metal hydride that want you to do full cycles. Do not deep cycle a lithium very often, also keep them cool but not frozen.

If you will mostly use the device on AC power, and want to extend the battery lifespan (health), then install Lenovo Vantage and set the maximum battery charging threshold to 80% or below. When you know you will need to run on battery, you can temporarily disable the limit and let it charge to 100%.

The ideal charge level for long-term storage of a lithium ion battery is about 50%, so if you really don't use the battery very often, you can set the thresholds to keep the battery in the 40-60% range.

my only advice, don't touch CS 2 when you are on battery, only play games when you plug in your laptop. so please always carry the power brick anywhere

btw don't force yourself with low brightness, at least use 40%-50% brightness, your eyes are more important than the laptop, so make your laptop comfortable to use for your eyes

ok, so the thing is, Lenovo laptop has so many background apps, make sure kill them and only use Lenovo Vantage. Better you close Copilot, turn off bluetooth, turn off camera and mic (only turn on them when needed), and any other unnecessary apps in the background, btw i prefer my location on all the time but it's up to you if you wanna turn off location

hopefully you can optimize your laptop and can last at least 2 hours or so

• Power saving windows mode
• Dark theme
• Brightness down
• Turn off Bluetooth if not needed, same with WiFi

This is all automated on mine when I unplug it.

Bro is a gaming laptop, and if you're going to play with it, use it plugged in to get better performance like all gaming laptops in general, all you're doing is unnecessarily increasing battery cycles. It's true that Loq 15 arp9 doesn't last more than 2:30 hours, but it's not meant to be played with without a charger either; no gaming laptop is going to give you more than an hour and a half unplugged.

bro don't blame others..you should have done research yourself, 15ARP9 has no igpu as this is Amd Ryzen 7435 Hs..It's always use dGpu, still it gives me battery backup like 3 hours with conservation mode..make sure u uninstall all bloatwares, unncessary services and process
And you play games in battery mode?

When you have power supply available always use it connected. Why burden your battery when there is Power.