How to access the Surface’s battery report
Battery report allows you to learn more about your Surface's battery information and usage history. Read on for more information and how to generate and access the report.
In the Windows system, there is a great power management tool that allows you to learn more about your battery information and behavior over time. The report is called “Battery Report“.
1 What information is in the battery report?
The generated battery report will have the following information about your system’s battery:
- Basic computer and OS information
- Installed batteries
information about each currently installed battery - Recent usage
power states over the last 3 days - Battery usage
battery drains over the last 3 days - Usage history
history of system usage on AC and battery - Battery capacity history
charge capacity history of the system’s batteries - Battery life estimates
battery life estimates based on observed drains.
2 How to access the battery report?
In order to access the battery report, first, you need to generate a report that corresponding to your current battery information and usage history.
To do this:
- Right-click on Start menu
- Select Command Prompt
- Type following command “powercfg /batteryreport” and hit Enter key. It will generate the battery life report and save it to the current location you located with a file named “battery-report.html”.
Now you can browse and open the report located in the command output above.
The report has all the important information about the current device’s battery status. Sometimes, you might need to do a full recharge cycle multiple times to get more accurate information. This method applied to all Surface devices including Surface with Windows RT, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.
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It doesnt show any battery and also can not be started without plugging the adapter. Can u suggest something
If it doesn’t show any battery then that tells me your battery is either completely dead or a connector is loose inside from the battery to the MB. I would go with the former if the case as never been opened.
Cant click on it to open from that location, has to be copied and pasted into your browser then it comes up. Wish I knew how to understand what it says to determine how much life it has. I have a SP3 that is 5 years old and has started acting up. Shutting down randomly and the only way I get it to reboot it to torque/twist the tablet while holding down the power button. Going to buy the new 7 today, not happy about it 🙁 It’s been fine for the last 2 days but worried when it will act up again
Hello everyone!
I have a Surface Pro 5 and a few months after charging the battery, the battery takes a long time to start discharging. It keeps a few hours at 100% and only then unloads. Does anyone know how to solve?
I have been having this issue since day one with mine now about 18 months old. have you found any solutions? only thing i can have to fix it is to hold power and volume down but that is not very practical, it is happening more and more often now with my surface as it ages
My battery is going from fully charged to dead, when unplugged, in less than 15 minutes. When i ran the powercfg /batteryreport its showing my batter with more than 100% charged battery capacity at times. It just died in under 15 minutes and went from 107% capacity to 0%. Does this mean battery need replaced or could something else be the issue?
Load Windows updates and firmware updates. Factory reset your Surface and see if it happens. If it does your tablet is messed up.
Thanks and very interesting.
My Nov 19 battery in Surface Laptop 3 has done 108 charge cycles – how deep does the discharge need to be to count as one Cycle?
And capacity is reported as 42010 out of 45800 mWh. Drop of 8.3% in 10 months.
Is this acceptable?
Searching for the Microsoft battery warranty – does anyone happen to know it??
which battery is battery 1 and which is battery 2?