Great tutorial I like the stress free environment. Even though I know a lot about computers, I don't know how to fix them; however with the help of your tutorial it was very easy!
Thank you Carl for the clear video. In my case, the gas in the battery deformed my entire laptop and put a lot of mechanical stress on the circuit board. When the laptop got warm, it blue screened from the mechanical stress. The old batteries were reminding me more of an airbag than a laptop battery.
I have the same laptop and my battery is about to die, keeps charge for just 15-20 minutes. Your crisp video and narration, gave me confidence to buy the battery on amazon and replace it myself. Apparently only thing, i need is one small size screw driver. Thanks for sharing your video.
Thanks for watching. You should need only the one screwdriver for this replacement, but if you are going to get into more work like this you will need more tools. :) I recommend getting a set of the small screwdrivers in various sizes and even maybe one of those sets with a handle and a bunch of replacable bits for all the common screw types. Another tip on the battery life is to check your task manager to see what is running in the background I often notice my battery going down faster than normal and find a task in the background sucking up a lot of CPU time. If you now what the task is and that it is safe to end it, you can kill the task to end the battery drain.
Hi Carl. Thanks so much for this video. I was able to change out my battery and everything appears to be working perfectly! I was never able to find a battery that said Dell, so I bought one from Amazon for about $50. It's an off brand but the laptop appears to be accepting it fine with no hitches. Wish Dell wouldn't make it so hard to switch out batteries. I keep a laptop for a long time and run through several batteries during the life of it. Thanks!
Nice to know that it is possible that non-Dell branded batteries can work as well. I kind of figured they might work OK considering how many there are out there for sale but I was a bit worried about trying one when I replaced mine. It would be nice if it was easier to switch out batteries, but I can understand why they made the laptop this way. Now that they want to make many laptops very thin, they can't really design them with the older style detachable battery packs that had the thicker cylindrical 18650 cells inside. Maybe they could have designed it with a user replaceable battery pack with the flat battery inside, but even that might have made the laptop thicker because of the extra layers of plastic housing that would be necessary.
I am used to the tabs on the back to replace the battery. Same as you. So I Felt the same as you, before doing it... it was fairly easy, once you locate the correct CZcams video. Did take about 20 minutes, because this was my first time and did not want to drop a screw or pull the wrong place on the back when removing it. One word of caution... Disconnect your old battery at the battery..NOT the mother board. If you do make sure you salvage the connector cable. AND I needed to use a very small flat head screw driver to remove the cable battery plug, you don't want to risk pulling on the wires and breaking one of the wirers.
Thank You so very much. Just simply Powerful Video. I now need a Battery for a Inspiron 7506 2 in 1. I believe You said the 7K Series? Good Luck: Much appreciated.
Hi Carl. Thanks for the great tutorial video. I was able to change out my old battery and install a brand new one. However, my laptop says 0% available (plugged in, not charging). Is there anything I can check to see why neither batteries are charging or is there a common problem with the Inspiron 15 7548? I thought maybe i just needed a fresh reboot after the install but it still isn't charging. Any advice would be great!
First I would see if you have the Dell Power Management app installed like my laptop has. If it's like mine you can just right click the battery icon down by the clock and find it in the pop up. The Power Management app might tell you what the problem is.
You are not the first one to say they have issues with removing the screws. But I've never had this happen, so it is hard to give any suggestions without being able to look at your laptop. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for watching. If you liked this video you would probably like my newer video where I show how to replace the three cell battery with a 4 cell battery for much longer run time. czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html
You need to know the Model number ( example above is model 7569) a) not only to buy the correct battery, but b) Removal of the back.... for instance it is different on the models that turn into a tablet. [You need the model number if you look at CZcams to see the procedure. I just did my wife's Dell . Ordered a non Dell, but same watts, looked on youtube for the procedure. It went like clockwork. Plugged it in and battery was at 46%. It works fine and was charging up. They did recommend a "calibrate" and 3 drains and recharge initially.
Addition: It came with two screwdrivers. Dell does use LockTite Blue, which makes sure the screws stay in, but not so much that you can't remove them. I slso complement Dell on the ease with which the back comes off after you have the screws removed. Even though there were 20 clips they back popped off quite easily … and surprisingly they lined up on the first try when reassembling.
Ok Carl, GREAT information. Do you still have the link to a GENUINE Dell 33YDH! Yep, found a LOT of products that are made by ??Somebody??. Would really appreciate the information. Thanks
I don't have a link to a genuine Dell battery. I think the only way to be reasonably sure you are getting a genuine Dell battery is to buy it directly from them. At a far higher cost, if they even offer it. The WDX0R battery I used in my first replacement looked like a genuine dell but that seller has long since stopped selling it. When I bought the 33YDH battery for my second replacement I didn't even try to find one that said Dell on it.
Hi Carl, nice video. I have a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 series with a i7 core and 15.6" display. My question is will the same battery work for this series? And can you provide the screw details, it would help me when I order them online to get the right ones.
Dell has used the "Inspiron 15 7000 Series" name for a wide range of laptops so I wouldn't know if the same battery would work for yours. You would need to check the specific model number, like for mine it's model 7569. Or just open it up to see what kind of battery is inside. As for the screws, I don't know the specifics other than they are tiny screws with philips heads. If you are just replacing the battery you shouldn't need new screws unless you lose one.
Hey Carl! Very informative video. I have the DELL INSPIRON 13 7000 SERIES (2in1) laptop, got it back in 2017, just checked the Power Management Lite and it says "FAIR" and it says that I should consider changing the battery. I got the laptop from Best Buy here in Canada if you're familiar with that. Do you think they're capable of doing the battery work changes? Cause I dont have the tools to change it myself. Hope you respond. Cheers!
If Best Buy in Canada has Geek Squad like they do in the US they should be able to install a new battery for you. But it's actually not that hard to do, and if I remember right the only tools you need are a small philips screwdriver and some sort of plastic tool to wedge in the crack to pop the cover loose where it snaps in. Even something simple like a guitar pick can work for that. But if you don't feel confident in trying it yourself I would think Best Buy could do it for you. And if they do it you have the advantage of not having to worry about breaking something. It's on them to get the job done properly.
Quick question- how long should it take to get the screws loose- I’ve trying to unscrew the back of my laptop and it only seems to get loose but it won’t pop off you know
It shouldn't take too many turns to loosen the screws. Maybe 5 to 10 turns. Often the screws will come out of the holes when they are loose but on some laptops the don't, they stay trapped in the back cover. The other thing is that the covers are usually also held on with snap together points around the edge. So you have to use something to pry around the edge all the way around and pop apart the spots that snap together. A guitar pick or something similar often works well to pop the cover loose without damaging anything.
Sorry, I do not. The link is dead now as the seller is either not selling this battery or is no longer on Amazon. The battery I installed in this video didn't last very long anyway, and I have already replaced it again since then. But the last time I figured out I could replace it with a 4 cell battery and get much longer run time. See my newer video at czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html for how to do that. The 4 cell battery came from an Amazon seller called "FLYTEN INC" and it has been working very well.
There are several things you can do. First is check if you have the Dell Power Manager app installed. Right click on the battery symbol in the lower right of the task bar and see if the pop up shows "Dell Power Manager." If it does you can pick that and it might give you some information about your battery. On mine there is a link in the top right that says "order battery" that will take you to Dell's site. Unfortunately, when I clicked that it took me to a page that shows nothing about actually buying a battery. But it does have a bunch of information on how to determine the health of your battery. When I bought my battery I just did a search on Amazon and eBay by the model number of my laptop. I don't think all 7000 series use the same battery so you'll have to find the specific model number, like for mine it is 7569. Just search for "Dell Inspiron 7569 battery" but with your number in place of the 7569 if it is different. Another thing to watch for is for is the batteries that aren't "genuine" Dell batteries. I saw many that didn't even claim to be Dell batteries and I haven't used one of those so I don't know if it will work or if the laptop will refuse to use one of those. Dell says that genuine Dell batteries are only available from them, but the one I bought identifies as a genuine Dell battery in the Power Manager app and works OK.
I have a dell Inspiron chromebook 7486 and having trouble finding a battery. My charger cable works fine but the laptop itself won’t charge. Any idea if this is the charging port that is messed up or the battery? I had to bend the charger a bit for it to charge for a bit but that method stopped working after a bit.
My charger adapter actually developed a break in the wires near the end that plugs into the laptop and for a while I had to bend the wire a bit to find the position that made connection. Eventually that stopped working and I had to buy a replacement power adapter. When I did, I bought a higher wattage one that charges the battery even faster. Yours could be that or it could be the port in the laptop. Or it could be that the laptop thinks the battery is damaged and doesn't want to charge it. My 7569 had a light on the front edge that changes color when the power adapter is plugged in and working. If yours has something like that, it would indicate if the charger has a good connection to the laptop or not. Also, you could check to see if yours has the Dell Power Manager app installed. That app will tell you the condition of your battery, and if it needs to be replaced, and when the power adapter is plugged in it should show if it is trying to charge the battery.
Hey Carl, I have a Dell 15 7573 so I assume it would be the same battery. Can you tell me if these Dell 7000 series will operate without a battery, while just using AC power adapter? I have an Asus laptop that does. Just wondering. Thanks.
I'm not sure if the 7573 uses the same battery or not. I found a battery site that shows a 56 Watt Hour 4 cell battery for the 7573, but then I found a CZcams video that shows the inside and you can clearly see the 42 Wh three cell battery like mine. Maybe the best thing to do is to take the bottom cover off yours and see what battery it has inside. That's what I did with mine when I wanted to replace it. I'm not sure if it would operate on AC without the battery installed. Most laptops will, and in the old days, when you could just push a latch and detach the battery, some people would do that on purpose to try to save charge cycles on the battery when the laptop was mainly being used at a desk. But lately I have seen laptops (like my older Toshiba in my other videos) with built in batteries that have no CMOS backup battery, because they think you don't need a CMOS backup battery when the main battery is not supposed to be removable by the user. In that case when you remove the main battery you lose your CMOS settings like boot order and the hardware clock settings. But these Dell Inspirons do have a CMOS backup battery so that shouldn't be a problem, so it may work fine.
@@cdsmith IIRC my pdf manual says 42W and this video shows 42W. czcams.com/video/wFaly5x0Qa8/video.html I don't need a battery yet, just getting prepared for the day I do. I will definitely go the Amazon or 3rd party seller route.
thank you for video! must we fully charge ? like old school batteries - put it on charge for like 12 hours or can we use straight away? Thank you again
I would recommend just charging it to 100% after installing. No need to leave it plugged in for 12 hours. The intelligent charging system will stop when it thinks it is at 100% anyway.
Hi, Carl. My computer is 4 years old now and no longer holds a charge. Could you post a link to the battery that you got that worked from Amazon? Thanks!
Unfortunately I can't give you a link to the exact battery I bought as the seller hasn't been selling it on Amazon for a while now. I would recommend just searching on the WDX0R battery type and pick a seller with good reviews and maybe one that seems to be in the business of selling laptop replacement parts. But before you buy a battery you might want to watch my new video where I show how to replace the 3 cell battery with a 4 cell battery to provide a much longer battery run time. czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html
Hi Carl, appreciate the video! It's great. I have a communication error with my version of this laptop. I'm worried ill buy a new battery and it won't fix it. It's at 91% and refuses to charge. Did you ever come across the problem I'm having? I'd appreciate your advice thanks.
Haven't seen that problem. Does the percentage go lower if you run on battery for a while? Does it say it's charging if you plug in the power adapter? Mine has an app called "Dell Power Manager Lite" that can give you better information about what is going on than just checking the windows battery icon popup. Maybe that app will tell you if there is something wrong with the battery. Just click the windows icon and type "Dell Power Manager Lite" and it should come up in the search.
@@cdsmith When you unplug the power the laptop turns off. It says 91% battery. In bios it says communication error with the battery. The battery is relatively new, no apparent issues upon visual inspection. Its as if bios just rejects the battery. Whatever tells bios that its a good Dell battery's seems to have failed for some reason. I'll give that Dell Power Management a try for more info. Thanks.
So then the question is if the problem is with the battery or the motherboard or the BIOS. The easiest thing would be to buy a new battery but that is kind of expensive to do without knowing if it is really the problem. I guess the next thing I would try is to unplug and closely inspect the connector for the battery and where it plugs into the board to see if there are any problems with the pins in both connectors. Maybe clean the connectors with some alcohol. Another thing to try would be to clear the BIOS config settings or even reflash the BIOS but I don't think that is very likely to fix the problem.
I'm on my third battery in 4 years I've had mine. And it only gets a few charge cycles a week. I leave it plugged in for days at a time when I'm at home. I have a new video where I upgrade from a 3 cell to a 4 cell battery for longer life. czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html
Please help me know? Can i tweak a 74WH 357F9 Laptop Battery for Dell Inspiron 15 7000 to fit in as it uses 42wh, the one you have used in the video. Many thanks
The 357F9 battery looks a lot thicker in the images I found online and probably wouldn't fit in the space. But I found on my 7569 model that I could upgrade to a 4 cell battery that is the same thickness but longer. See my other video for details. czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html
@@cdsmith fantastic... that was so helpful Carl. Like I said I was confused between 74wh, 32wh and the 56wh but now that I have seen the mentioned video 56 is way to go fwd... thanks a lot mate ❤️👍🏻. Like and subscribed.
Good to know. So I guess this means that when you install a new battery if the laptop won't just immediately boot up like mine did in the video just plug it in to get it to boot the first time. Not sure what the point of that feature would be. Maybe it makes it safer for installation for the battery to not output a voltage until it is installed and turned on by the AC charger.
@@cdsmith Yeah, exactly. It was confusing because nowhere does it say that it needs to be plugged in. It just wouldn't boot up. I texted a Dell tech contractor who wrote back, "The battery has a safety in place that prevent it from discharging until it receives a charge." I plugged it in and could see that the new battery had very little charge in it. So after about an hour it was ready to go.
Hi Carl, I have this same laptop and the adapter wont charge the battery no more. I'm going to buy this same battery and replace it. I've had the laptop for 12 months and didnt really use it for a while.. I'm confused why it wont charge any more.
That's a weird one. Even if the battery is worn out, it should still try to charge it, unless maybe the laptop thinks the battery is bad. I was thinking maybe you have a problem with the adapter, but it if it runs the laptop off AC when plugged in the adapter is probably OK. My laptop has an app called "Dell Power Manager Lite" that will tell you the condition of your battery. On mine you can right click the Windows 10 battery icon down by the clock and pick it from the pop up menu. You could also find it with the Windows 10 search. Maybe that will tell you something about what's wrong.
Works great. In fact, I already did this with this laptop in a later video. I used a 33YDH type 4 cell 56Wh Dell battery. czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html
Hi Carl, my laptop (model 7579) stopped to turn on. I opened and found puffed up battery. I removed it for now till I buy another one. But I am still unable to turn it on with AC connected. Do you know if this is something expected?
I don't know if that is expected. I know many laptops will run on AC without the battery installed but I don't know if this one will. It might indicate a bigger problem than just the battery. You could spend a bunch on a replacement battery and find out it still doesn't turn on. I guess the first thing to check is obvious things like if the green LED on the power adapter block comes on when plugged in, and does the light on the front edge of the laptop come on or do any blinking when plugged in on AC (but I'm not sure what that light on the front will do when no battery is installed since it normally indicates charging). You could try plugging an external monitor into the HDMI port to see if you get any video that way. I've seen laptops that seem dead just because the backlight in the LCD panel has failed.
Yeah, for me this also looks strange and I afraid it is something else. I tested AC with multimeter and it is ok. Ordered battery, will see if it help. Thank you!
Thanks for the info. I suppose in the old days when you could just pull a latch and pop the battery off the back or out of the bottom of a laptop, they had to design them to be able to operate with the battery removed as people would expect that. Now that the battery is not removable by normal users they don't need to design it that way. Maybe they even use the battery as part of the power regulation, or to provide extra power during peak CPU usage times.
I replaced my battery back in October and recently like a week ago the laptop just died. AC adapter LED doesn't light up, power button does nothing. It's possible that battery just crapped out or is it maybe the motherboard or fan just died?
That's a strange problem. First issue is that even if you have a problem with the laptop, the green LED on the power adapter should light up when it is plugged in on AC. Check anything you can with the adapter -- if the power cord is plugged tightly into the adapter and the outlet it's plugged into actually works. And check it while not plugged into the laptop, just in case the laptop is causing a problem. If the cord is plugged into the brick properly and you know the wall outlet works you might need a new adapter. But then there's the laptop. Even with a bad power adapter it should be able to run off battery. In normal use the laptop should shut down before the battery is completely dead, and so the battery should retain enough charge to at least power up to that BIOS screen that warns you that your battery is too low to boot up the laptop. So it's likely you have a problem with both the laptop and the charger. Which makes me wonder if the laptop had an issue that somehow also killed the power adapter. Which makes me worry that if you just buy a new power adapter it won't fix the problem and maybe you could even damage the new adapter if the laptop somehow had a fault that damaged it. On the other hand, you can find the power adapters fairly cheaply online. I found one on eBay for 12 dollars so it wouldn't cost much to get one and see if it fixes your problems.
You should be able to just buy an external USB adapter that looks like an external hard drive enclosure. One that is for M.2 drives. Just remove the drive and install it in the external enclosure and you should be able to plug it into another PC and get at your data. It will end up just working like a big flash drive. I don't actually have one for M.2 style drives so I can't make a specific recommendation. In general, Startech has a good reputation for this kind of product, but with a quick Amazon search I found a lot of USB to M.2 SSD adapters. Any of them would probably work but since I don't have a specific recommendation I would suggest looking at the reviews to see if any of them have bad reviews. You can get a cheap one that is just a circuit board with a USB connector on the end, or you can spend a bit more to get the nice one with an enclosure like an external drive and you could even continue to use the drive as a backup drive, and maybe get some value from the dead laptop by using it's drive as an external drive.
The data on the hard drive is not maintained by the power from the battery, so you should be able to replace the battery without losing any data. However, you should back up anything important before doing any repair work like this, because you can't anticipate what might go wrong. You could do something clumsy like drop your screwdriver on the motherboard and crack a chip. Or accidentally dump your coffee into the thing while it's open. You might think that you wouldn't do something like that, but that's what everyone thinks before an accident happens. Including me. :) So back up anything important. Everyone should be doing that anyway on a regular basis.
my port is really tight. I pull the pull tab (transparent plastic one i suppose)and that is almost disaster. it tear a bit but I manage to stop. in my case I suggest that should use small screwdriver to softly lever the very edge of the port
It's always a bit scary to have to pull on a connector that doesn't seem to want to come out. I even broke a ribbon cable connector once because I thought it was the type where you slide the locking part to the side and it turned out to be the type where you lift it and it rotates up away from the cable. So in general, I recommend studying each connector carefully to determine the proper procedure for removing a cable. But in this case, with my battery, it is just a pull to remove type. Mine wasn't very hard to pull free, but if you have one that is not, it might be better to do as you suggest and use a small screwdriver on the connector to lever against the shell it plugs into. But be careful not to contact any of the pins in the connector and short out the battery. Even a momentary short could melt wires in the cable or damage pins.
I don't have a link to share. The seller I got my battery from hasn't sold them for a long time now. I don't want to just go do a search and post a link to a a seller I have no experience with, and even if I did the link would go bad in a month or two anyway. The last battery I bought was Flyten brand and it has worked well so I suggest just searching for "Flyten WDX0R battery." Also, you might want to watch my newer video that shows how to upgrade from a 3 cell battery to a 4 cell for longer battery life. czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html
The model number does matter. I don't think it has to be a genuine Dell but it has to be the right model because there is a chip in the battery that the laptop checks to make sure it's right. Also probably has to be the right model to properly fit and have the right style of connector.
I think mine was made in 2016 as well. You may want to check your specific model number when shopping for a battery. Like mine is also a "7000 series" but the specific model is 7569. Then do a search on the specific model number and the word "battery" to make sure you are getting the right type of battery. Although if yours looks identical to mine, it probably does use the same battery.
I have the dell model no. 7560 can i use battery which is compatible with 7000 series like the battery description says compatible with 5589, 5590, 7560, 7569, 7570 etc. Plz help
Nope. The files on the hard drive do not require battery power to be maintained. There is some info in the BIOS settings that need power, like the time and date and some settings, but that is maintained by a little coin cell battery so that should be retained OK as well. However, it is still a good idea to back up your important files before doing a repair like this. You never know what kind of mishaps can occur that you wouldn't even think of.
To this battery give your computer more running time? Than the original time of 6 hours? I recently bought a Inspiron 7500 2n1 black and the battery life barely last through one of my college lectures. The class is about 1hr and 30 minutes long and my battery drains from 100% to 21% - 15%. All I am doing is typing on google docs and surfing the web.
The original time was around 5 hours and with the new battery it was getting close to 7 hours when I did the switch. This is with light web browsing, word processing, spreadsheet, stuff like that, not games or video playback. Dell sells numerous different laptops under the 7500 2 in 1 name so I don't know how yours should compare, but it sounds like you aren't getting near the battery life I would expect. One thing you can do is launch the Task Manager and let it run in the background and if you see the battery draining check the task manager to see what is using the most processor time. Windows 10 task manager even has a column called "Power Usage Trend" that can tell you what apps are using the most power. This might let you know what is sucking up your battery power.
@@cdsmith Thank you! I will make sure to pull up task manager to watch the power usage. I didn't think of that. I did some more research and apparently it is so post to last 6 hours and 14 minutes (Actively surfing the web). 😪 Not even close
I did a search online for the 7579 and it looks like it's from the same family of laptops as my 7569 and it uses the same battery. So I think it's a pretty good bet the replacement procedure will be exactly the same.
Best thing i found out is limiting the cpu 70% or less cause this laptop will run at 100% cpu for no reason 😑. Just curious do those side vents suck in air?
Excessive CPU use is a fault of the operating system, not the laptop. I've fought that a lot with Windows 10, where I find some background Windows process sucking up 30% of my CPU for like 10 minutes for no good reason. I've tried changing settings like going into the task scheduler and setting Windows Defender to not do full disk virus scans when the laptop is on battery, but it seems Microsoft thinks they know better and settings like that revert back to the way they want them when updates occur. I've thought about installing a Linux distribution just to see how much longer it lasts on battery. As for the side vents, do you mean the little square ones toward the front end of the laptop (toward the bottom in the view in my video)? I think those are just for sound to get out from the speakers that are right behind them.
Hmmm... You're not the first one to comment with a problem getting the screws out. My theory before was that the threaded inserts that they screw into are loose and spinning with the screw as you turn the screw. If the inserts are loose you may still be able to get the back off by removing the rest of the screws then carefully going around the edge popping loose the cover from where it snaps together. If the inserts are loose they might come out of their holes with the cover. But if that works then I'm not sure what to do to fix the situation. It depends on how they are broken. On other broken devices where I've seen this I have been successful at gluing the threaded inserts back in place with super glue or epoxy.
@@cdsmith I found a video that helps with this problem, apparently the 7573 model has a chassis which attaches the top 6 screws to the back cover, so you can only remove the bottom 4 screws completely. For everyone who had this problem, I strongly recommend checking out xlearntechnow's video on it, but the gist is that you remove the bottom 4 screws, but leave in the top 6 which are closer to the vents (make sure you unscrew them as far as you can), and then you use a thin plastic object like a card or a guitar pick to pry open the back cover, starting with the section closer to the vents, and the remaining 6 screws come off with the cover. Other than this issue which it seems like was particular to my model, your video was very helpful and I appreciate your reply and efforts to help the situation.
Thanks for the explanation on this. I thought it was odd that the screws couldn't be removed, and I wasn't convinced myself that broken inserts were the problem, but it was all I could think of. Gotta wonder why they designed it that way.
Swelling can affect many kinds of lithium ion batteries. I don't know if this particular one is more prone to swelling than other kinds of lithium ion batteries or not. But in general what is happening is that as the battery charges and discharges it wears out and the chemical reaction that goes back and forth with each cycle is not fully completing each time. This makes the gas as a byproduct of the reaction.
You can replace it with a 56 Wh battery. I have a newer video on doing just that here: czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html But that's not the part number of the 56 Wh battery I used. I used a 33YDH. But a quick google search on W7NKD looks like it's the same, and some listing have both part numbers in the description, so I'm guessing it would work as well.
It really is. No having to deal with glued together parts where you have to use heat to melt adhesive, no fragile glass to crack, and no microscopic screws where every one is a different size and has to be put back in the right place. All you need is a small philips screwdriver set, maybe something to pry the back panel free where it snaps together, and some confidence that you can do the job.
Great tutorial I like the stress free environment. Even though I know a lot about computers, I don't know how to fix them; however with the help of your tutorial it was very easy!
Great video with easy and clear instructions. Thank you for taking the time to record this and sharing it!
Thank you Carl for the clear video. In my case, the gas in the battery deformed my entire laptop and put a lot of mechanical stress on the circuit board. When the laptop got warm, it blue screened from the mechanical stress. The old batteries were reminding me more of an airbag than a laptop battery.
Excellent tutorial! Clear and to the point.
Thanks for this video. I just changed the battery myself!!
I have the same laptop and my battery is about to die, keeps charge for just 15-20 minutes. Your crisp video and narration, gave me confidence to buy the battery on amazon and replace it myself. Apparently only thing, i need is one small size screw driver. Thanks for sharing your video.
Thanks for watching. You should need only the one screwdriver for this replacement, but if you are going to get into more work like this you will need more tools. :) I recommend getting a set of the small screwdrivers in various sizes and even maybe one of those sets with a handle and a bunch of replacable bits for all the common screw types. Another tip on the battery life is to check your task manager to see what is running in the background I often notice my battery going down faster than normal and find a task in the background sucking up a lot of CPU time. If you now what the task is and that it is safe to end it, you can kill the task to end the battery drain.
@@cdsmith Thanks a Ton. Have a great Sunday
Thank u. I couldn’t find the battery on dell either so I went to Amazon. Great tutorial!!!
Thanks, very useful. Exactly what I needed to know.
Succinct and clear. Very helpful. Thank you.
This video was very helpful, thank you I will try to replace myself but first I need to find a new battery. thank you!
did you find a battery?
Clean and structured video. Thank u!
Hi Carl. Thanks so much for this video. I was able to change out my battery and everything appears to be working perfectly! I was never able to find a battery that said Dell, so I bought one from Amazon for about $50. It's an off brand but the laptop appears to be accepting it fine with no hitches. Wish Dell wouldn't make it so hard to switch out batteries. I keep a laptop for a long time and run through several batteries during the life of it. Thanks!
Nice to know that it is possible that non-Dell branded batteries can work as well. I kind of figured they might work OK considering how many there are out there for sale but I was a bit worried about trying one when I replaced mine. It would be nice if it was easier to switch out batteries, but I can understand why they made the laptop this way. Now that they want to make many laptops very thin, they can't really design them with the older style detachable battery packs that had the thicker cylindrical 18650 cells inside. Maybe they could have designed it with a user replaceable battery pack with the flat battery inside, but even that might have made the laptop thicker because of the extra layers of plastic housing that would be necessary.
I am used to the tabs on the back to replace the battery. Same as you. So I Felt the same as you, before doing it... it was fairly easy, once you locate the correct CZcams video. Did take about 20 minutes, because this was my first time and did not want to drop a screw or pull the wrong place on the back when removing it. One word of caution... Disconnect your old battery at the battery..NOT the mother board. If you do make sure you salvage the connector cable.
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I needed to use a very small flat head screw driver to remove the cable battery plug, you don't want to risk pulling on the wires and breaking one of the wirers.
Clear instructions, thank you!
Thanks! This was perfect!
Thank You so very much. Just simply Powerful Video. I now need a Battery for a Inspiron 7506 2 in 1. I believe You said the 7K Series? Good Luck: Much appreciated.
GREAT VIDEO. thanks a lot
VERY helpful & practical tips that carry over into many projects! I'm not techy at all, but this video guided me through the process very easily!
I REALLY appreciated your recording this & was so glad I found it!
Great video
Thank you so much for sharing
Great!
I just need to find the battery.
Thanks!!
Thank you!!!
Thanks for sharing 😊
Hi Carl. Thanks for the great tutorial video. I was able to change out my old battery and install a brand new one. However, my laptop says 0% available (plugged in, not charging). Is there anything I can check to see why neither batteries are charging or is there a common problem with the Inspiron 15 7548? I thought maybe i just needed a fresh reboot after the install but it still isn't charging. Any advice would be great!
First I would see if you have the Dell Power Management app installed like my laptop has. If it's like mine you can just right click the battery icon down by the clock and find it in the pop up. The Power Management app might tell you what the problem is.
Very clear and easy steps.. my screws don’t wanna come out! Any suggestions?
You are not the first one to say they have issues with removing the screws. But I've never had this happen, so it is hard to give any suggestions without being able to look at your laptop. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Thanks for watching.
Which make battery is original for Dell inspiration 155567 model laptop.
Awesome!
Thanks for watching. If you liked this video you would probably like my newer video where I show how to replace the three cell battery with a 4 cell battery for much longer run time. czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html
Good video BUT the dell 2in1 has the worst battery life!!
Yes
You need to know the Model number ( example above is model 7569) a) not only to buy the correct battery, but b) Removal of the back.... for instance it is different on the models that turn into a tablet. [You need the model number if you look at CZcams to see the procedure.
I just did my wife's Dell . Ordered a non Dell, but same watts, looked on youtube for the procedure. It went like clockwork. Plugged it in and battery was at 46%. It works fine and was charging up. They did recommend a "calibrate" and 3 drains and recharge initially.
Addition: It came with two screwdrivers. Dell does use LockTite Blue, which makes sure the screws stay in, but not so much that you can't remove them.
I slso complement Dell on the ease with which the back comes off after you have the screws removed. Even though there were 20 clips they back popped off quite easily … and surprisingly they lined up on the first try when reassembling.
Ok Carl, GREAT information. Do you still have the link to a GENUINE Dell 33YDH! Yep, found a LOT of products that are made by ??Somebody??. Would really appreciate the information. Thanks
I don't have a link to a genuine Dell battery. I think the only way to be reasonably sure you are getting a genuine Dell battery is to buy it directly from them. At a far higher cost, if they even offer it. The WDX0R battery I used in my first replacement looked like a genuine dell but that seller has long since stopped selling it. When I bought the 33YDH battery for my second replacement I didn't even try to find one that said Dell on it.
Hi Carl, nice video. I have a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 series with a i7 core and 15.6" display. My question is will the same battery work for this series? And can you provide the screw details, it would help me when I order them online to get the right ones.
Dell has used the "Inspiron 15 7000 Series" name for a wide range of laptops so I wouldn't know if the same battery would work for yours. You would need to check the specific model number, like for mine it's model 7569. Or just open it up to see what kind of battery is inside. As for the screws, I don't know the specifics other than they are tiny screws with philips heads. If you are just replacing the battery you shouldn't need new screws unless you lose one.
Hey Carl! Very informative video. I have the DELL INSPIRON 13 7000 SERIES (2in1) laptop, got it back in 2017, just checked the Power Management Lite and it says "FAIR" and it says that I should consider changing the battery. I got the laptop from Best Buy here in Canada if you're familiar with that. Do you think they're capable of doing the battery work changes? Cause I dont have the tools to change it myself. Hope you respond. Cheers!
If Best Buy in Canada has Geek Squad like they do in the US they should be able to install a new battery for you. But it's actually not that hard to do, and if I remember right the only tools you need are a small philips screwdriver and some sort of plastic tool to wedge in the crack to pop the cover loose where it snaps in. Even something simple like a guitar pick can work for that. But if you don't feel confident in trying it yourself I would think Best Buy could do it for you. And if they do it you have the advantage of not having to worry about breaking something. It's on them to get the job done properly.
@@cdsmith Thank you, they have it. But it might take a while for me to do it considering the situation right now. Thank you, keep safe!
Quick question- how long should it take to get the screws loose- I’ve trying to unscrew the back of my laptop and it only seems to get loose but it won’t pop off you know
It shouldn't take too many turns to loosen the screws. Maybe 5 to 10 turns. Often the screws will come out of the holes when they are loose but on some laptops the don't, they stay trapped in the back cover. The other thing is that the covers are usually also held on with snap together points around the edge. So you have to use something to pry around the edge all the way around and pop apart the spots that snap together. A guitar pick or something similar often works well to pop the cover loose without damaging anything.
Hello, do you have the Amazon link you ordered for this?
Sorry, I do not. The link is dead now as the seller is either not selling this battery or is no longer on Amazon. The battery I installed in this video didn't last very long anyway, and I have already replaced it again since then. But the last time I figured out I could replace it with a 4 cell battery and get much longer run time. See my newer video at czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html for how to do that. The 4 cell battery came from an Amazon seller called "FLYTEN INC" and it has been working very well.
Hi Carl,
I have a inspiron 7000 and the battery is damaged but i can't find the right model online.
Can you hlep me?
There are several things you can do. First is check if you have the Dell Power Manager app installed. Right click on the battery symbol in the lower right of the task bar and see if the pop up shows "Dell Power Manager." If it does you can pick that and it might give you some information about your battery. On mine there is a link in the top right that says "order battery" that will take you to Dell's site. Unfortunately, when I clicked that it took me to a page that shows nothing about actually buying a battery. But it does have a bunch of information on how to determine the health of your battery. When I bought my battery I just did a search on Amazon and eBay by the model number of my laptop. I don't think all 7000 series use the same battery so you'll have to find the specific model number, like for mine it is 7569. Just search for "Dell Inspiron 7569 battery" but with your number in place of the 7569 if it is different. Another thing to watch for is for is the batteries that aren't "genuine" Dell batteries. I saw many that didn't even claim to be Dell batteries and I haven't used one of those so I don't know if it will work or if the laptop will refuse to use one of those. Dell says that genuine Dell batteries are only available from them, but the one I bought identifies as a genuine Dell battery in the Power Manager app and works OK.
I have a dell Inspiron chromebook 7486 and having trouble finding a battery. My charger cable works fine but the laptop itself won’t charge. Any idea if this is the charging port that is messed up or the battery?
I had to bend the charger a bit for it to charge for a bit but that method stopped working after a bit.
My charger adapter actually developed a break in the wires near the end that plugs into the laptop and for a while I had to bend the wire a bit to find the position that made connection. Eventually that stopped working and I had to buy a replacement power adapter. When I did, I bought a higher wattage one that charges the battery even faster. Yours could be that or it could be the port in the laptop. Or it could be that the laptop thinks the battery is damaged and doesn't want to charge it. My 7569 had a light on the front edge that changes color when the power adapter is plugged in and working. If yours has something like that, it would indicate if the charger has a good connection to the laptop or not. Also, you could check to see if yours has the Dell Power Manager app installed. That app will tell you the condition of your battery, and if it needs to be replaced, and when the power adapter is plugged in it should show if it is trying to charge the battery.
Hey Carl, I have a Dell 15 7573 so I assume it would be the same battery. Can you tell me if these Dell 7000 series will operate without a battery, while just using AC power adapter? I have an Asus laptop that does. Just wondering. Thanks.
I'm not sure if the 7573 uses the same battery or not. I found a battery site that shows a 56 Watt Hour 4 cell battery for the 7573, but then I found a CZcams video that shows the inside and you can clearly see the 42 Wh three cell battery like mine. Maybe the best thing to do is to take the bottom cover off yours and see what battery it has inside. That's what I did with mine when I wanted to replace it. I'm not sure if it would operate on AC without the battery installed. Most laptops will, and in the old days, when you could just push a latch and detach the battery, some people would do that on purpose to try to save charge cycles on the battery when the laptop was mainly being used at a desk. But lately I have seen laptops (like my older Toshiba in my other videos) with built in batteries that have no CMOS backup battery, because they think you don't need a CMOS backup battery when the main battery is not supposed to be removable by the user. In that case when you remove the main battery you lose your CMOS settings like boot order and the hardware clock settings. But these Dell Inspirons do have a CMOS backup battery so that shouldn't be a problem, so it may work fine.
@@cdsmith IIRC my pdf manual says 42W and this video shows 42W. czcams.com/video/wFaly5x0Qa8/video.html
I don't need a battery yet, just getting prepared for the day I do. I will definitely go the Amazon or 3rd party seller route.
thank you for video! must we fully charge ? like old school batteries - put it on charge for like 12 hours or can we use straight away?
Thank you again
I would recommend just charging it to 100% after installing. No need to leave it plugged in for 12 hours. The intelligent charging system will stop when it thinks it is at 100% anyway.
@@cdsmith thank you so much Carl :)
Hi, Carl. My computer is 4 years old now and no longer holds a charge. Could you post a link to the battery that you got that worked from Amazon? Thanks!
Unfortunately I can't give you a link to the exact battery I bought as the seller hasn't been selling it on Amazon for a while now. I would recommend just searching on the WDX0R battery type and pick a seller with good reviews and maybe one that seems to be in the business of selling laptop replacement parts. But before you buy a battery you might want to watch my new video where I show how to replace the 3 cell battery with a 4 cell battery to provide a much longer battery run time. czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html
Hi Carl, appreciate the video! It's great. I have a communication error with my version of this laptop. I'm worried ill buy a new battery and it won't fix it. It's at 91% and refuses to charge. Did you ever come across the problem I'm having? I'd appreciate your advice thanks.
Haven't seen that problem. Does the percentage go lower if you run on battery for a while? Does it say it's charging if you plug in the power adapter? Mine has an app called "Dell Power Manager Lite" that can give you better information about what is going on than just checking the windows battery icon popup. Maybe that app will tell you if there is something wrong with the battery. Just click the windows icon and type "Dell Power Manager Lite" and it should come up in the search.
@@cdsmith When you unplug the power the laptop turns off. It says 91% battery. In bios it says communication error with the battery. The battery is relatively new, no apparent issues upon visual inspection. Its as if bios just rejects the battery. Whatever tells bios that its a good Dell battery's seems to have failed for some reason. I'll give that Dell Power Management a try for more info. Thanks.
So then the question is if the problem is with the battery or the motherboard or the BIOS. The easiest thing would be to buy a new battery but that is kind of expensive to do without knowing if it is really the problem. I guess the next thing I would try is to unplug and closely inspect the connector for the battery and where it plugs into the board to see if there are any problems with the pins in both connectors. Maybe clean the connectors with some alcohol.
Another thing to try would be to clear the BIOS config settings or even reflash the BIOS but I don't think that is very likely to fix the problem.
Hey Mark, I'm experiencing this problem currently. Did you manage to fix yours?
Ugh thanks for this video. I bought my laptop brand new and it only lasts about 30 minutes without charging!
I'm on my third battery in 4 years I've had mine. And it only gets a few charge cycles a week. I leave it plugged in for days at a time when I'm at home. I have a new video where I upgrade from a 3 cell to a 4 cell battery for longer life. czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html
Please help me know? Can i tweak a 74WH 357F9 Laptop Battery for Dell Inspiron 15 7000 to fit in as it uses 42wh, the one you have used in the video.
Many thanks
The 357F9 battery looks a lot thicker in the images I found online and probably wouldn't fit in the space. But I found on my 7569 model that I could upgrade to a 4 cell battery that is the same thickness but longer. See my other video for details. czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html
@@cdsmith fantastic... that was so helpful Carl. Like I said I was confused between 74wh, 32wh and the 56wh but now that I have seen the mentioned video 56 is way to go fwd... thanks a lot mate ❤️👍🏻. Like and subscribed.
Great video, but one addition. Apparently now the new batteries have a "safety" where they won't turn on initially unless the laptop is plugged in.
Good to know. So I guess this means that when you install a new battery if the laptop won't just immediately boot up like mine did in the video just plug it in to get it to boot the first time. Not sure what the point of that feature would be. Maybe it makes it safer for installation for the battery to not output a voltage until it is installed and turned on by the AC charger.
@@cdsmith Yeah, exactly. It was confusing because nowhere does it say that it needs to be plugged in. It just wouldn't boot up. I texted a Dell tech contractor who wrote back, "The battery has a safety in place that prevent it from discharging until it receives a charge." I plugged it in and could see that the new battery had very little charge in it. So after about an hour it was ready to go.
Hi Carl,
I have this same laptop and the adapter wont charge the battery no more. I'm going to buy this same battery and replace it. I've had the laptop for 12 months and didnt really use it for a while.. I'm confused why it wont charge any more.
That's a weird one. Even if the battery is worn out, it should still try to charge it, unless maybe the laptop thinks the battery is bad. I was thinking maybe you have a problem with the adapter, but it if it runs the laptop off AC when plugged in the adapter is probably OK. My laptop has an app called "Dell Power Manager Lite" that will tell you the condition of your battery. On mine you can right click the Windows 10 battery icon down by the clock and pick it from the pop up menu. You could also find it with the Windows 10 search. Maybe that will tell you something about what's wrong.
what do you think about using a 4 cell, 56wh battery instead?
Works great. In fact, I already did this with this laptop in a later video. I used a 33YDH type 4 cell 56Wh Dell battery. czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html
Hi Carl, my laptop (model 7579) stopped to turn on. I opened and found puffed up battery. I removed it for now till I buy another one. But I am still unable to turn it on with AC connected. Do you know if this is something expected?
I don't know if that is expected. I know many laptops will run on AC without the battery installed but I don't know if this one will. It might indicate a bigger problem than just the battery. You could spend a bunch on a replacement battery and find out it still doesn't turn on. I guess the first thing to check is obvious things like if the green LED on the power adapter block comes on when plugged in, and does the light on the front edge of the laptop come on or do any blinking when plugged in on AC (but I'm not sure what that light on the front will do when no battery is installed since it normally indicates charging). You could try plugging an external monitor into the HDMI port to see if you get any video that way. I've seen laptops that seem dead just because the backlight in the LCD panel has failed.
Yeah, for me this also looks strange and I afraid it is something else. I tested AC with multimeter and it is ok. Ordered battery, will see if it help. Thank you!
That's just how some of these Inspiron laptops are designed.
Mine won't turn on with just AC unless the battery is installed.
Thanks for the info. I suppose in the old days when you could just pull a latch and pop the battery off the back or out of the bottom of a laptop, they had to design them to be able to operate with the battery removed as people would expect that. Now that the battery is not removable by normal users they don't need to design it that way. Maybe they even use the battery as part of the power regulation, or to provide extra power during peak CPU usage times.
@@cdsmith exactly
hello sir, i have dell inspiron 7572 .. can i put a beter battery as mine has gone bad.. or i have to put in same 1
I think you probably have to use the same one. The pictures in the service manual for that model look like there is no room for a larger battery.
@@cdsmith thanks
I replaced my battery back in October and recently like a week ago the laptop just died. AC adapter LED doesn't light up, power button does nothing. It's possible that battery just crapped out or is it maybe the motherboard or fan just died?
That's a strange problem. First issue is that even if you have a problem with the laptop, the green LED on the power adapter should light up when it is plugged in on AC. Check anything you can with the adapter -- if the power cord is plugged tightly into the adapter and the outlet it's plugged into actually works. And check it while not plugged into the laptop, just in case the laptop is causing a problem. If the cord is plugged into the brick properly and you know the wall outlet works you might need a new adapter. But then there's the laptop. Even with a bad power adapter it should be able to run off battery. In normal use the laptop should shut down before the battery is completely dead, and so the battery should retain enough charge to at least power up to that BIOS screen that warns you that your battery is too low to boot up the laptop. So it's likely you have a problem with both the laptop and the charger. Which makes me wonder if the laptop had an issue that somehow also killed the power adapter. Which makes me worry that if you just buy a new power adapter it won't fix the problem and maybe you could even damage the new adapter if the laptop somehow had a fault that damaged it. On the other hand, you can find the power adapters fairly cheaply online. I found one on eBay for 12 dollars so it wouldn't cost much to get one and see if it fixes your problems.
@@cdsmith Yea im looking to just get my data off the SSD and get a new one. Do you recommend any services or devices for getting the data off the SSD?
You should be able to just buy an external USB adapter that looks like an external hard drive enclosure. One that is for M.2 drives. Just remove the drive and install it in the external enclosure and you should be able to plug it into another PC and get at your data. It will end up just working like a big flash drive. I don't actually have one for M.2 style drives so I can't make a specific recommendation. In general, Startech has a good reputation for this kind of product, but with a quick Amazon search I found a lot of USB to M.2 SSD adapters. Any of them would probably work but since I don't have a specific recommendation I would suggest looking at the reviews to see if any of them have bad reviews. You can get a cheap one that is just a circuit board with a USB connector on the end, or you can spend a bit more to get the nice one with an enclosure like an external drive and you could even continue to use the drive as a backup drive, and maybe get some value from the dead laptop by using it's drive as an external drive.
Is it possible to lose your data on your laptop when you replace the battery?
My mother is frantic about it.
The data on the hard drive is not maintained by the power from the battery, so you should be able to replace the battery without losing any data. However, you should back up anything important before doing any repair work like this, because you can't anticipate what might go wrong. You could do something clumsy like drop your screwdriver on the motherboard and crack a chip. Or accidentally dump your coffee into the thing while it's open. You might think that you wouldn't do something like that, but that's what everyone thinks before an accident happens. Including me. :) So back up anything important. Everyone should be doing that anyway on a regular basis.
my port is really tight. I pull the pull tab (transparent plastic one i suppose)and that is almost disaster. it tear a bit but I manage to stop.
in my case I suggest that should use small screwdriver to softly lever the very edge of the port
It's always a bit scary to have to pull on a connector that doesn't seem to want to come out. I even broke a ribbon cable connector once because I thought it was the type where you slide the locking part to the side and it turned out to be the type where you lift it and it rotates up away from the cable. So in general, I recommend studying each connector carefully to determine the proper procedure for removing a cable. But in this case, with my battery, it is just a pull to remove type. Mine wasn't very hard to pull free, but if you have one that is not, it might be better to do as you suggest and use a small screwdriver on the connector to lever against the shell it plugs into. But be careful not to contact any of the pins in the connector and short out the battery. Even a momentary short could melt wires in the cable or damage pins.
@@cdsmith yes , I try my best to not touch any pins just in case
Can you share the link on how to get the battery
I don't have a link to share. The seller I got my battery from hasn't sold them for a long time now. I don't want to just go do a search and post a link to a a seller I have no experience with, and even if I did the link would go bad in a month or two anyway. The last battery I bought was Flyten brand and it has worked well so I suggest just searching for "Flyten WDX0R battery." Also, you might want to watch my newer video that shows how to upgrade from a 3 cell battery to a 4 cell for longer battery life. czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html
does the model number matter when it comes to getting battery? i just bought one but it had no battery.
The model number does matter. I don't think it has to be a genuine Dell but it has to be the right model because there is a chip in the battery that the laptop checks to make sure it's right. Also probably has to be the right model to properly fit and have the right style of connector.
Carl Smith alright thank u!!! My dell is a the same model “ dell inspiron 15 7000” but it was made back in 16
I think mine was made in 2016 as well. You may want to check your specific model number when shopping for a battery. Like mine is also a "7000 series" but the specific model is 7569. Then do a search on the specific model number and the word "battery" to make sure you are getting the right type of battery. Although if yours looks identical to mine, it probably does use the same battery.
I have the dell model no. 7560 can i use battery which is compatible with 7000 series like the battery description says compatible with 5589, 5590, 7560, 7569, 7570 etc. Plz help
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Will changing the battery make me lose all my data?
Nope. The files on the hard drive do not require battery power to be maintained. There is some info in the BIOS settings that need power, like the time and date and some settings, but that is maintained by a little coin cell battery so that should be retained OK as well. However, it is still a good idea to back up your important files before doing a repair like this. You never know what kind of mishaps can occur that you wouldn't even think of.
To this battery give your computer more running time? Than the original time of 6 hours?
I recently bought a Inspiron 7500 2n1 black and the battery life barely last through one of my college lectures. The class is about 1hr and 30 minutes long and my battery drains from 100% to 21% - 15%. All I am doing is typing on google docs and surfing the web.
The original time was around 5 hours and with the new battery it was getting close to 7 hours when I did the switch. This is with light web browsing, word processing, spreadsheet, stuff like that, not games or video playback. Dell sells numerous different laptops under the 7500 2 in 1 name so I don't know how yours should compare, but it sounds like you aren't getting near the battery life I would expect. One thing you can do is launch the Task Manager and let it run in the background and if you see the battery draining check the task manager to see what is using the most processor time. Windows 10 task manager even has a column called "Power Usage Trend" that can tell you what apps are using the most power. This might let you know what is sucking up your battery power.
@@cdsmith Thank you! I will make sure to pull up task manager to watch the power usage. I didn't think of that.
I did some more research and apparently it is so post to last 6 hours and 14 minutes (Actively surfing the web). 😪 Not even close
Would a model 7579's procedure be any different ?
I did a search online for the 7579 and it looks like it's from the same family of laptops as my 7569 and it uses the same battery. So I think it's a pretty good bet the replacement procedure will be exactly the same.
@@cdsmith thanks a lot
Best thing i found out is limiting the cpu 70% or less cause this laptop will run at 100% cpu for no reason 😑. Just curious do those side vents suck in air?
Excessive CPU use is a fault of the operating system, not the laptop. I've fought that a lot with Windows 10, where I find some background Windows process sucking up 30% of my CPU for like 10 minutes for no good reason. I've tried changing settings like going into the task scheduler and setting Windows Defender to not do full disk virus scans when the laptop is on battery, but it seems Microsoft thinks they know better and settings like that revert back to the way they want them when updates occur. I've thought about installing a Linux distribution just to see how much longer it lasts on battery. As for the side vents, do you mean the little square ones toward the front end of the laptop (toward the bottom in the view in my video)? I think those are just for sound to get out from the speakers that are right behind them.
@@cdsmith yeah oh thats the speakers honestly thought that's where the cold air went into then got exhausted out the back
I can’t seem to unscrew the top 6 screws, and I’m not sure why
Hmmm... You're not the first one to comment with a problem getting the screws out. My theory before was that the threaded inserts that they screw into are loose and spinning with the screw as you turn the screw. If the inserts are loose you may still be able to get the back off by removing the rest of the screws then carefully going around the edge popping loose the cover from where it snaps together. If the inserts are loose they might come out of their holes with the cover. But if that works then I'm not sure what to do to fix the situation. It depends on how they are broken. On other broken devices where I've seen this I have been successful at gluing the threaded inserts back in place with super glue or epoxy.
@@cdsmith I found a video that helps with this problem, apparently the 7573 model has a chassis which attaches the top 6 screws to the back cover, so you can only remove the bottom 4 screws completely. For everyone who had this problem, I strongly recommend checking out xlearntechnow's video on it, but the gist is that you remove the bottom 4 screws, but leave in the top 6 which are closer to the vents (make sure you unscrew them as far as you can), and then you use a thin plastic object like a card or a guitar pick to pry open the back cover, starting with the section closer to the vents, and the remaining 6 screws come off with the cover. Other than this issue which it seems like was particular to my model, your video was very helpful and I appreciate your reply and efforts to help the situation.
Thanks for the explanation on this. I thought it was odd that the screws couldn't be removed, and I wasn't convinced myself that broken inserts were the problem, but it was all I could think of. Gotta wonder why they designed it that way.
Someone can tell me why this battery have this problem?
Swelling can affect many kinds of lithium ion batteries. I don't know if this particular one is more prone to swelling than other kinds of lithium ion batteries or not. But in general what is happening is that as the battery charges and discharges it wears out and the chemical reaction that goes back and forth with each cycle is not fully completing each time. This makes the gas as a byproduct of the reaction.
I keep seeing 42WHR - can this laptop fit a 56WHR, 4 Cell, Lithium ion Part # W7NKD
You can replace it with a 56 Wh battery. I have a newer video on doing just that here: czcams.com/video/R6cbvlZyg6E/video.html But that's not the part number of the 56 Wh battery I used. I used a 33YDH. But a quick google search on W7NKD looks like it's the same, and some listing have both part numbers in the description, so I'm guessing it would work as well.
This seems easy compared to changing an iPhone battery 😂
It really is. No having to deal with glued together parts where you have to use heat to melt adhesive, no fragile glass to crack, and no microscopic screws where every one is a different size and has to be put back in the right place. All you need is a small philips screwdriver set, maybe something to pry the back panel free where it snaps together, and some confidence that you can do the job.
This freaking laptop I judt got it and the battery is dead. What a cr4p!