15" MBP (SR) Battery Issue...Happening to many users al of a sudden?

Hi all,
I have a 15" MBP (SR) That has been my favorite computer of all time. I take great care of it. Recently it just shut off without warning while on battery power...
No warning at all...When I turned it back on it said 44%...I decided to look in the system profiler and this is what I got:
Model Information:
Serial Number: Sony-ASMB012-36b2-9d39
Manufacturer: Sony
Device name: ASMB012
Pack Lot Code: 0003
PCB Lot Code: 0000
Firmware Version: 102a
Hardware Revision: 0500
Cell Revision: 0303
Charge Information:
Charge remaining (mAh): 1202
Fully charged: No
Charging: Yes
Full charge capacity (mAh): 2445
Health Information:
Cycle count: 19
Condition: Check battery
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA): 36
Voltage (mV): 11926
1. What is the full charge capacity suppossed to be?
2. Why is it dying after 19 cycles?
3. It says check battery...I know this means I need a new one or should bring it to the apple store, but does anyone know exactly what this means?
This is the original battery that came with the machine, but It should not be dead already.This is way out of spec.
ALSO,
MY sister's and mothers powerbook batteries all died less then a week ago, all of a sudden out of the blue, with no warning...
Is there something going on? virus? Bug in OSX? I looked it up and many have all of a sudden had their batteries konk out!! What gives?
I do not qualify for the replacement program due to my serial number, and am out of warranty, so I will be stuck spending 140 bucks on a new battery...
But I thought before I waste my money I would check here to see if you had any advice, similar experience and or contacts to get this replaced/reported...
Thanks

Fancy meeting you here!
I actually don't think it's significantly more frequent than in the past - but it's definitely an ongoing issue.
To answer your questions:
1. Nominal new full charge capacity is 5500 mAh (actually, 5556, but usually rounded down). So, your 'health' is ~44%.
2. Most likely because it's a faulty battery.
3. 'Check battery' means the battery circuitry is reporting a problem. Rather like the 'check engine' light on a car dashboard, this can mean many things...
First thing to try is an SMC reset, but I suspect that won't help. Did you calibrate your battery every two months, or so? (You cannot calibrate successfully now, with the sudden shut downs occurring.)
If you happen to live near an Apple Store, go to the Genius Bar. Bring a copy of this linked page, which includes a battery warranty extension. That applies specifically to Core Duo machines, I know, but C2D users have reported getting free replacement batteries under the program. You may wish to point out that as of the last update to that linked page, all C2D machines were still covered by the original one year warranty. I recommend visiting a Genius Bar if possible, but you can try calling AppleCare as well (less likely to result in a free replacement, IMHO). The other relevant link is the Apple notebook batteries page, which states that a battery should maintain 80% health for 300 cycles - you are clearly out of spec, based on that.
Hope this helps...

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    1) Original migration was going to take 255 hours over WiFi. Did very little after running for a couple of hours. There is no way once started to change the type of connection, pause, nor restart the migration. You have to cancel on the source machine, not the new machine. Then do a second time.
    2) Bought an Ethernet to USB adapter for $40 and redid through Migration Assistant. Took 3 hours of an estimated 1 hr 55 minutes. Creates a duplicate ID, which worried me. OK to simply delete the original ID. This software needs some serious work on usability.
    3) MA said it didn't migrate incompatible software, including Snapz Pro X (movie and screen cap program). Yet, when I started up there was Snapz. Deleted. I'm on the beta program for the new release, completely rewritten in cocoa. Looks like it will be great.
    4) Dropbox could not find its own folder on the MBP-R. Relink didn't fix until I re-relinked, did manually, found and "merged" folders. Related to having to use a second name when I used MA because my "name" was already used in the first attempt.
    5) Google Drive did not work. Same problem. Had to delete the Google Drive folder then recreated. Works now.
    6) Apple Track Pad does not work with Lion, quite sadly since Lion supports more gestures. I've read there is a lenghty work around but can't confirm that.
    7) Wake from sleep had some issues at first but seems improved, perhaps by latest update of Lion. Still binks and flashes, minor issue.
    8) Had continued to use Apple's Backup to store select folders on external hard drives, even after MobileMe closed. Worked great on old MBP. No longer works. Boots as trial version, then asks me to pay up for MobileMe to use, which I would if I could
    9) Icons/ desktop does not properly restore when it switches between internal display and external, Apple Thunderbolt Display, i.e. icons moved from right edge to middle of screen.
    10) Adobe CS6. Migrated CS5, then upgraded. All fine (so far) except Acrobat Pro left old icon on Dock, which instead of failing to open the old program, or opening the new one, does some peculiar copy protection routine. Had a Doh! moment before I simply deleted and replaced the icon.
    11) Using Timemachine with external RAID 5 (Pegasus R4) over Thunderbolt. Great. Tremendous speed improvement.
    12) Bluetooth device set up had lots and lots of problems. Took forever to find Mobile Mouse, Keyboard, and extrarodinarily long to find Trackpad (which, again, doesn't work when found). Did find my other MBP half way across the house -- immediately. Had to try repeatedly. Once I got them set up, though, they work -- except for the Trackpad.
    13) Lastinly, you'll notice this form itself doesn't even include Lion / 10.8 yet. Same problem happens in many places on Apple.com Sigh.
    Good luck and enjoy the great new computer!

    14) iMovie problems. Apparently, prefs cause long movies to fail to save. There is an update, but the process doesn't work. Asks to a different Apple ID even when not needed.
    By the way, here is the WiFi transfer time:

  • Iphone battery issue - should i go to apple or live with it?

    All
    Having recently just said that I was not having troubles with my iPhone I've hit a problem actually that is a bit frustrating, and I'm wondering if its worth going to apple with this problem, and if so should I do anything before hand, Im based in the UK....
    The battery has been fluctuating between brilliant and non-existant. I always run it way down, then charge it fully at every charge. However for example, yesterday I charged it fully. Used the ipod function for an hour in the day then when I got home I received a phone call. The phone call lasted 20 minutes, however I then got a 10% warning. I left to phone battery to die completely and it still hadn't this morning. About 10am it did die so I put it on charge. Its now 1.30 and when I went to look at how much the battery had charged, it was still red, so seemingly had received no charge. I then ejected it and put it back in and now its charging pretty quickly.
    The problem is when it first did this about a month back I thought it just need resetting to reset the battery indicator. However its happening pretty much all the time, and no matter how many resets I do I get similar issues.
    The worrying thing is every no and then it works really well, i.e. I charge it and without much use manage to get 3 days out of it.
    Does this sound like an issue, its a bit annoying and if so should I pop in and see if I can get a replacement from apple?

    The problem has not been specifically with either.
    I charge with a MacBook Pro at home...
    A windows PC at work
    Power brick when not near either.
    In this instance, Im on my MacBook but the MacBook does not sleep (I have sleep turned off and the power turned on for the mac) the only thing that does come on is the screensaver so I imagine its probably not that.
    As I say it was in for a few hours while I worked on it today, went to check the phone and noticed it had not charged. However its now been in about 10 minutes and seems about 75% charged, almost as though it did charge earlier, but it decided not to realise.
    Then the second issue is that many times it will be around 80% charged at a guess. Used for an hour to listen to one album at work, then take one phone call lasting about 20 minutes and it was drained to within 10% and a warning was displayed. It seems to be the phone call that drained it. I must admit I don't use the phone that much for phone calls, I send a lot more text messages and use the ipod. I use about 100 minutes a month in total on phone calls.

  • Adapter issue or battery issue?

    My brand new Macbook Pro is occasionally not charging.  Is it an issue with the adapter or battery?  Anyone experiencing this same problem?
    Please help!!

    Thank you for your kind reply.
    I have been using apple laptops for many years.  So, I'm aware of how to properly charge my laptop. (So, yes I've checked the contact points multiple times already, although my laptop is new.)
    Sometimes, I see no lights, either green or orange.  In fact, last night, I'm sure my battery level was below 95%, and when I plugged in, it did not start changing (with no light indicator).
    My concern is that because this issue happens inconsistently, I don't know if this can be fixed.
    By the way, to your last question, yes, the surge protector is ALWAYS on.

  • Yet another (different?) battery issue

    I have two batteries for my Powerbook, one I keep as a spare and which has only been used about half a dozen times.
    Over recent months I have noticed that the original battery (and the unused one) seemed to take an increasingly long amount of time to recharge, but in the past few days it won't seem to recharge at all. The percentage of remaining charge on both batteries will only go down, with one currently at 25% and the other at 37% and no matter which battery I have installed, whenever I click on the battery menu, in the first line it says "10:00 until full"
    I've tried all the suggestions that I've seen in responses to other battery issues, including resetting the PRAM both with the four key shortcut and using open firmware and reset-nvram and reset-all. I've also tried resetting the PMU by holding down the power key, until the long bleep and I've just tried the Powerbook G4 Battery Updater, but with both batteries I get the following message "Your battery was not updated. Make sure you have a battery properly installed and then try to update your battery again. Be sure to complete the update process for this battery before starting the update of another battery"
    The information in the system profiler for each battery is as follows:
    Original battery -
    Charge Information:
    Charge remaining (mAh): 861
    Charging: Yes
    Full charge capacity (mAh): 3508
    Health Information:
    Cycle count: 110
    Battery Installed: Yes
    Amperage (mA): 10
    Voltage (mV): 11320
    Relatively new battery -
    Charge Information:
    Charge remaining (mAh): 1621
    Charging: Yes
    Full charge capacity (mAh): 4381
    Health Information:
    Cycle count: 3
    Battery Installed: Yes
    Amperage (mA): 10
    Voltage (mV): 11331
    I notice there is a massive difference in the "Cycle Count" for the two batteries (110 and 3) although I haven't got a clue what this means.
    Any advice or suggestions would be most welcome, as at present I am worried that eventually I will have run both batteries down and there will be no point in me purchasing a new one if my laptop cannot charge it for some reason.
    As ever my utmost thanks in advance to anyone who takes the trouble to get back to me
    Kind Regards
    Bernard
    PS. the charger info in System Profiler is as follows
    AC Charger Information:
    AC Charger (Watts): 50
    Connected: Yes
    Charging: Yes
    Message was edited by: tdogb

    Thanks a million for getting back to me Louie
    The ring on the power socket is orange, suggesting that it is charging. However I didn't noticed the 50watts in my System Profiler details for the AC Charger. My Power Supply says that it is a 65w one with the correct model no. for this Powerbook (I think it says A1021 on it but I don't trust my eyesight at this time of night)
    Both batteries do appear to be charging but incredibly slowly. For example I have been trying to charge up the battery all week and I had it up to 33% at one stage, before I neglected to plug the power chord in when I turned it on and it slipped back down to 22%. Three days later with it plugged into the power constantly (with me using the computer only during the day and putting it to sleep at night - should it charge when in sleep mode?), it's only crept back up to 30% again.
    This battery could be knackered but I hardly have used my spare battery and even that won't seem to charge any quicker
    I am also pretty certain that this incredibly slow charging is a recent problem, as I've had that power supply for some time (a year maybe) and I am sure that in the past the batteries have charged up at a more normal rate.
    My power supply socket got a little knock recently when I tripped over the cable (as seems to be a common problem on the old non-magnetic sockets) and since then, with the connection not being nearly so snug, it happens quite frequently that I wake the computer from sleep and only realise that the plug is slightly out of the socket when the warning comes up that the laptop will put itself to sleep because the battery is low.
    As a result, where previously I was always using the power supply with the battery fully charged and the light on the ring usually green, these days it seems to be permanently orange because I keep running the battery down and in recent weeks it will not seem to charge up because it takes so much time
    I am guessing that I must've bought a moody power supply (I guess cheap is cheap, as they say) but I don't think it's the source of my problem because the issue has only manifested itself recently
    Many thanks as always for taking the trouble to get back to me
    Best Regards
    Bernard

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