About this replacement
Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 14ABR8 Series — 11.52V Li-Polymer Replacement Battery (5B11K39352)
This 11.52V, 4750mAh (54.72Wh) lithium-polymer battery replaces the original cell in the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 14ABR8 series, including models 82XE0001RK through 82XE0004RK and over 228 additional variants. It mounts to the same connector and BMS handshake points as the factory cell. Voltage and capacity match OEM spec exactly — no adapter or modification required.
- IdeaPad Slim 5 14ABR8 platform fit: All 82XE-series variants share the same three-cell Li-Polymer architecture, 11.52V nominal rail, and L22-series connector pinout. The BMS reads cell chemistry and pack ID from the same EEPROM register across the entire run, so one replacement cell covers the full model spread without firmware conflict.
- Bench tested on actual hardware: We cycled this cell through charge, full-load discharge, and hibernate-cutoff on an 82XE board. The BMS accepted the pack without throwing an unknown-battery flag, and the charge controller stepped through CC/CV phases correctly to 100%.
- Post-install calibration on the IdeaPad Slim 5: After fitting this cell, run one full discharge to hibernate-cutoff, then charge uninterrupted to 100%. This forces the BIOS battery learn cycle to re-baseline against the new cell and clears the inaccurate "poor health" warning that appears after every cell swap on this platform.
BIOS reporting battery health as poor after replacement on the IdeaPad Slim 5
The IdeaPad Slim 5 BIOS reads health status from EEPROM data stored on the battery pack itself. When a new cell is installed, the EEPROM counters reset to factory defaults, but the BIOS fuel gauge IC has not yet run a learn cycle against the new cell's actual charge curve. This mismatch triggers a "poor health" or low-capacity warning that has nothing to do with the cell's condition. One full discharge-to-hibernate followed by an uninterrupted charge to 100% resets the learn cycle and clears the flag.
IdeaPad Slim 5 shutting down at 20–30% shown on the fuel gauge
This symptom points to a voltage cliff — the cell voltage drops below the BMS cutoff threshold under combined CPU and display load before the fuel gauge reaches 0%. It happens most often when the fuel gauge IC has not been calibrated to the new cell's discharge curve. The gauge was still using learned data from the degraded original cell, so the percentage reading lags behind actual cell voltage. Run two full discharge-to-hibernate and full-charge cycles; after the second cycle the gauge re-maps to the new cell and shutdown moves back to the correct low-voltage point near 3.0V per cell.