144 cycles with only 6% health, is that normal?

Question

Hi there!
I´m writing you from Spain cause it seems than the Spanish Apple support service is unable to do or to tell me anything else about my battery. As I wrote on the subject my battery is just with a 6% of health after only 144cycles. The weird thing is that in spite of the fact that the battery is doing more cycles now, the cycle counter doesn´t change at all! Is that normal?
Do you think I can get another new battery without any charge? My MBP is from March 2007 but it seems not to be under the exchange battery program.
Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Have you calibrated your battery?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh2339.html
After doing this, do a PRAM reset:
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.
Then, lastly, an SMC reset:
If the computer is on, turn it off.
Disconnect the AC Adapter and remove the computer's battery.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds and then release the button.
Reconnect the battery and AC Adapter.
Press the power button to restart the computer
This should hopefully reset the callibration, and your battery should get better. It's possibly not the battery that's at fault, but how the mac reads the information on the battery