Surface Pro 3 battery degradation

Is there ANY progress on this subject, ??? I'm down to max 15min of power on my Surface Pro 3.

This means I'm struggeling EVERY DAY with bringing the charger along everywhere I go. 

Also, I'm back to taking notes ON PAPER, since I cannot go into meetings with my clients (I have back to back meetings as a consultant) looking for a power outlet all the time before taking notes.

Together with dock, etc: this is a 2000EURO investment gone in just over a year!

Please give us a status update on this problem!

thanks

I am in the same deep sh.t here since 3 days now...

Not knowing what to do, I at least backed up all my data, because even plugged on the AC adapter, I need about 20 min every morning now to enter in a "state" where the windows session can sustain without immediately shutting down.

Needless to say that there is no way to have the Surface turned on without any AC adapter, and only the basic one is barely working,.. The dock's adapter is not even enough anymore.

On the dock, the charging white indicator is lit, but the Surface Pro 3 it is just behaving like it was not plugged at all and if the battery was totally empty, immediately shutting down somewhere "around" reaching the windows login screen (sometimes a bit before, sometimes a bit after...).

Extremely annoyed here. I was prepared about the idea of loosing the battery of this device after 4 years at least, but not just after a year an half, and specially without a reliable solution for turning it on even if the battery is dead !?

Hanging a year and half on forums for trying to cool down the Surface (dozens if not hundreds of hours) and now this ?

This is seriously unacceptable.

I ran powercfg  as well this morning and I only got 114 mWh of capacity remaining (equal to none).

JR

I think it's important to understand the distinction between a normal Windows Update and a Windows 10 Feature Update (The 1607 / Anniversary Update is the latter).  In the Windows 10 era a Feature Update is a full build of Windows, like installing an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 for example), and causes your Windows folder to be renamed Windows.old and then a new Windows folder is created from decompressing the new WIM (Windows Image) file before finally merging your settings, etc.  That is why your old history has been moved.

This is why, since the Windows Vista/7 era, it is no longer necessary to do a "clean" install since essentially every Windows upgrade is now a new installation but with your personal files and folders (and most customisation) is retained and merged back into the new installation so it appears like an upgrade.

While it is easy to roll out the tin foil conspiracy theories there is a rational explanation for your experience.  Steven Sinofsky did a blog post on this new upgrade experience in the Building Windows 7 blog which is still discoverable today.  People like to hate on Vista but actually while the OS was troubled it was the beginning of many technologies that makes Windows 10 as secure and componentised as it is today.

End of history lesson. :)

EDIT: Found the link which is actually about Windows 8 but explains how Windows 7 copied retained files back into the new installation which is different to how Windows XP and before did upgrades: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/b8/2011/11/21/improving-the-setup-experience/

All you're really explaining is how Microsoft have configured their system so badly, there's no separation between data and executable binaries in how they've structured their file storage. There is no reason why configuration files, log files etc get wiped out, even though many of these are in the Windows and System32 folders and subfolders, yet event logs and history data need to be erased when the Windows folder gets replaced? If the folder is being renamed and replaced, then like other files that are clearly copied / merged to the new instance, so can the rest of the important data.

Apart from keeping these important artifacts separate from each other, like *nix systems do, Windows upgrades clearly retain some of the original installation, otherwise, files such as described above would be lost too. 

Example: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

I assume Microsoft keep the renamed folder, because they like a rollback plan that involves bloating the file system with duplicate copies of files and an entire OS folder is too big, not to miss the opportunity to fill the storage space with.

I also don't think your best pitch is to tell me how good Windows 10 is. I've been developing software since DOS 5 and know just how crappy the entire Microsoft line of operating systems have been. Personally, Windows 7 was the best so far, from a user experience and Windows 10 is just a crappy hybrid of 7 & 8, that I get by with, by installing a custom 'Start' menu