iwork8 Air: installing a better battery. Possible?

[MRSiPPY]

I recently purchased an iwork8 Air for my wife and am finding that it needs charging more often than is ideal.

She uses it mostly for web browsing / gaming, and we’re having to charge it at least once a day.

I wondered whether it would be feasible to buy a higher mAh battery, provided it was of similar or same dimensions, and replace the existing battery with it. Is this something anyone has done?

I am comfortable disassembling and doing what is needed, I just know very little about batteries.

[Reid McG]

The biggest worry is whether the battery will fit or not – I replaced my Teclast x98 Air 3G’s battery awhile ago and ran into problems with bulging and screen/touch digitizer contact (the dreaded bubbles).  You will also run into issues with less-than-reliable mAh claims by various sellers – keep a very close eye on reviews of sellers and especially the negative reviews, as you know stuff from China is very hard to return/replace.

 

If you do successfully replace it and you notice the capacity is less than you would expect, give it a few cycles before judging – I had the same issue with my x98 Air 3G and figured the battery was fraudulent, but found that the capacity improved after 6 or 7 cycles.

[MRSiPPY]

Thanks so much for your response.

I will see how it’s faring after a few more cycles, and take it from there.

[Death By Bacon]

@gomcek Reid McG do you have a tutorial, or a link to a tutorial on how to change the battery on the x98? I have an x98 that doesn’t boot or charge anymore and I’m suspecting it could be a battery problem.

[Assaf Paz]

In the tablet, open a cmd in admin mode and run “powercfg -energy” (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/robmar/2009/05/18/powercfg-energy-windows-7-power-management-reports/)

Once you open the generated HTML, You will find out that it does not support Sleep S3 (sleep mode) – so this tablet can never really go to sleep like all other normal devices. Also you in the HTML will be able to have a look at the battery health.

I was very sad to discover this after I ordered mine, which sadly has yet to arrive…

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