Comments on: Poor Battery Life on Latitude D620

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:41:17 +0000

My D620 has the same issue. I just ordered my FOURTH battery for my D620 that is about 2 years and 4 months old.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:11:23 +0000

@Xipper: Sounds like you have 5 “death lights”, meaning that your battery is operating at less than 60% of its rated capacity. You can verify this with the other tools I’ve mentioned (bios or operating system tools).

By: Xipper

Xipper — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:02:44 +0000

First of all, this page is terrific, after weeks of hunting for this kind info, I finally rolled the right search.

I have a D620 and primarily run it off of a docking station. My battery life (like everyone else) had decayed to the point of barely making it past the boot. I just purchased another Dell 6 cell and it is too early to tell, but, appreciate the tips on how to check the battery health, particularly the status button check on the battery.

I Need a little clarification on the status indicator test.

This is cut from the Dell D620 documentation link posted above, I am quoting it only for the purposes of describing my question and hope I am not violating any copyrights.

“To check the battery health, press and hold the status button on the battery charge gauge for at least 3 seconds. If no lights appear, the battery is in good condition, and more than 80 percent of its original charge capacity remains. Each light represents incremental degradation. If five lights appear, less than 60 percent of the charge capacity remains, and you should consider replacing the battery.”

When I perform the status check on both the old and the new battery, I am getting the same response. I press the status button and get 5 lights, hold for 3 secs, all lights go off and then 5 lights come on for about 3 secs then all lights go off.

Does the second flash of 5 lights mean both batteries are bad? or just an indicator that that status test is occurring?

By: mike

mike — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:10:20 +0000

@Tommy: Thanks for posting your comment.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:34:45 +0000

Hey J,

You asked for recommendations on a third party D620 battery. I got a 9 cell one from notebookbattery.com about 6 months or so back, and am really happy with it. I even dug out the page for you where I got it:
http://www.notebookbattery.com/Dell-Latitude-D620/c23_193/index.html

Cheers,
Tom

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:19:58 +0000

I’m a college student trying to replace my Latitude D620 for minimal cost. Any suggestions? I’m TERRIFIED of buying a 3rd party battery in case it messes up my computer and they won’t fix it cuz I used foreign parts in it. But those seem to be the cheapest. Has anyone tried them? Comments? Suggestions? Your help is MUCH appreciated

By: j

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:26:59 +0000

Any good recommendations on a third-party battery? Like other posters, the 18 month old 9-cell battery for the 620 only lasts a few minutes. I figure there’s no point getting another Dell “genuine part” at “genuine prices” when I already know what the quality will be.

By: John

John — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:34:46 +0000

Mogus -

Any word on battery replacement you used? Manufacturer? website available? etc …

By: mike

mike — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:38:30 +0000

@mogus: Report back with which model you ordered and how it worked out for you.

By: mogus

mogus — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:14:08 +0000

has anyone tried ordering third party manufactured batteries instead? maybe they won’t have the same issues… (ordering one now!)