RIP clamshell battery?

[dudejediknight]

My 466 clamshell's battery seems to have given up the ghost. It's had a recent history of being stubborn as to charging, but now its bottomed out. It always seemed to get stubborn when it charge was between 25-35 percent, but usually a simple pull and reinstall of the battery (while on AC power) would convince it to continue charging up to full. Now not even my VST dual charger (which resurrected the battery last time it had issues) can convince it to charge AT ALL, with multiple adapters, no less. And the battery data (at least according to XBattery) looks very strange:

Max capacity: 3.600 Ah

curr. capacity: 5.212 Ah

Charge: .001Ah

Voltage: 15.2V

And that's while it's running off AC power. It shuts down immediately if i try to run it off battery. I've tried everything it says to (like resetting PRAM and NVRAM) in order to convince it to charge again, but it's had no effect. The battery is reading 1033 cycles, so it wouldn't surprise me if its cells that have finally given out on me.

I've read a bit about this kind of thing, and the common internet consensus is to just get a new battery. I couldn't find anything about whether a battery in this state would be suitable for being re-celled. I'd consider doing it myself, but not before I know it'd work in this situation, as well as having some kind of spare battery, just in case this one is well and truly dead. [xx(] ]'>

I've ruled out everything else except the battery, so I'm kind of out of options at this stage. I'd appreciate any suggestions or advice at this stage, since a battery that won't hold any sort of charge is useless to a laptop user.

 

[tomlee59]

After that many cycles, the chances of resurrection are small to nil. Recelling is certainly possible, but dangerous. Unless you know what you are doing, I recommend against recelling any lithium-ion pack. Manufacturers won't even sell you unpackaged cells unless you sign a stack of documents.

Time to get a new pack.

 

[dudejediknight]

I know how to solder, and I know how to be careful when it comes to electricity, so I'm not worried about that part of it. Is there some other scariness to it that I should be made aware of beforehand? Is there anything else I could try before giving up on the battery?

And can someone please explain to me what the flags entry means? Mine says 32000085 when on AC with battery installed, and 32000081 when on AC with the battery removed. Seems the last digit probably has something to do with a battery actually being present, but the rest... I have no idea. And I don't know the right magic words to find it on the internet myself. So if anybody knows for sure, please let me know.