Battery fully discharged and won't RECHARGE

I used my battery until it auto-shutoff. I was unable to recharge the laptop for 3 days due to a power outage at my house. Now the battery will not be recognized by the Macbook and will not charge. I have already tried to "reset" the system and have tried the solutions given by Apple.com. What should I do to get the battery to charge?

The Mac should shut down to protect the battery, and even after a prolonged discharge period should be recoverable.
Physically remove the battery from the Mac in order to "make and break" the connections, which will clean the terminals, as well as totally disconnecting it from it's host. Then replace and try recharging it once more.
Good luck.

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IPad battery fully discharged and now will not take a new charge

I've had this baby plugged in for 6 hours and it won't even charge to 10%. I am using an Apple supplied cord and charger.

Plug the USB cable into your computer. The iPad will say "Not Charging", however, it will charge but slowly.
Try this first - Reset the iPad by holding down on the Sleep and Home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons. (This is equivalent to rebooting your computer.)
The quickest way (and really the only way) to charge your iPad is with the included 10W or 12W (5W on Mini) USB Power Adapter. iPad will also charge, although more slowly, when attached to a computer with a high-power USB port (many recent Mac computers) or with an iPhone Power Adapter (5W). When attached to a computer via a standard USB port (2.5W, most PCs or older Mac computers) iPad will charge very slowly (but iPad indicates not charging). Make sure your computer is on while charging iPad via USB. If iPad is connected to a computer that’s turned off or is in sleep or standby mode, the iPad battery will continue to drain.
Apple recommends that once a month you let the iPad fully discharge & then recharge to 100%.
How to Calibrate Your Mac, iPhone, or iPad Battery
http://www.macblend.com/how-to-calibrate-your-mac-iphone-or-ipad-battery/
At this link http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/galaxy-tab-android-tablet,3014-11.html , tests show that the iPad 2 battery (25 watt-hours) will charge to 90% in 3 hours 1 minute. It will charge to 100% in 4 hours 2 minutes. The new iPad has a larger capacity battery (42 watt-hours), so using the 10W charger will obviously take longer. If you are using your iPad while charging, it will take even longer. It's best to turn your new iPad OFF and charge over night. Also look at The iPad's charging challenge explained http://www.macworld.com/article/1150356/ipadcharging.html
Also, if you have a 3rd generation iPad, look at
Apple: iPad Battery Nothing to Get Charged Up About
http://allthingsd.com/20120327/apple-ipad-battery-nothing-to-get-charged-up-abou t/
Apple Explains New iPad's Continued Charging Beyond 100% Battery Level
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/27/apple-explains-new-ipads-continued-charging- beyond-100-battery-level/
New iPad Takes Much Longer to Charge Than iPad 2
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/03/new-ipad-takes-much-longer-to-charge-than-ipa d-2.html
Apple Batteries - iPad http://www.apple.com/batteries/ipad.html
iPhone: Hardware troubleshooting (Power/Battery section also applies to iPad)
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2802
Extend iPad Battery Life (Look at pjl123 comment)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3921324?tstart=30
New iPad Slow to Recharge, Barely Charges During Use
http://www.pcworld.com/article/252326/new_ipad_slow_to_recharge_barely_charges_d uring_use.html
iPad: Charging the battery
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4060
Best Practices for iPad Battery Charging
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/best-practices-for-ipad-batte ry-charging/
Tips About Charging for New iPad 3
http://goodscool-electronics.blogspot.com/2012/04/tips-about-charging-for-new-ip ad-3.html
How to Save and Prolong the battery life of your new ipad
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4480944?tstart=0
Prolong battery lifespan for iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3: charging tips
http://thehowto.wikidot.com/prolong-battery-lifespan-for-ipad
iPhone, iPod, Using the iPad Charger
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4327
Install and use Battery Doctor HD
http://itunes.apple.com/tw/app/battery-doctor-hd/id459702901?mt=8
To Extend a Device’s Battery Life, Get to Know It Better
http://tinyurl.com/b67c7xz
iPad Battery Replacement
http://www.apple.com/batteries/replacements.html
In rare instances when using the Camera Connection Kit, you may notice that iPad does not charge after using the Camera Connection Kit. Disconnecting and reconnecting the iPad from the charger will resolve this issue.
 Cheers, Tom

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My I-phone 5 is not recharging. It was 3/4 full of battery life last night, I turned all the applications I had used (only 3). The second day I had the phone, I thought it felt hot and did call Apple and got a case number. It is now 14 days old. I gave up my house phone but this is making wonder if that was wise as now I have no phone to use...any ideas?

Bring your phone into Apple for evaluation.

HT4528 iPhone 4S battery at 30% when recharge started last night - this morning battery is dead, and won't recharge from any USB or A/C Wall adapters

Are there local alternatives to mailing in iPhone 4S for battery replacement? It's aggravating that this problem developed without warning, just outside the warranty window (I should expect that problems will occur immediately after my one-year warranty expires. I'm wondering about third-party support and battery replacement...)

Connect the PlayBook to the charger that came with the unit. Since the batteries are totally dead, they will come back to life. Connect them and leave them for a few days. Afterwards hold down the power button only until the red light flashes and allow it to reboot. Try not to let the battery go below 10% in the future.

Battery fully discharging while idle and plugged-in ...

I've had a new "standard" mid-2011 MBA 13-inch, 128GB, since Monday (three days of use), and I'm encountering an issue where I can't seem to get any AC (chargers) to work reliably. I was using the system today, for example, until about noon, with the AC plugged-in, the battery fully-charged, and apparently working. I had a conference call in another room, and when I came back two hours later, the system had shut itself off, and no light on the AC cord. System would not even power on. I unplugged everything, moved the AC cord to another outlet (first one is perfectly fine!), plugged it in, and the system started up, but the battery showed 2% charge - after two hours of inactivity while plugged-in. Sounds like something is seriously wrong either with this new MBA/or accessories, or a bug in Lion. I did migrate from an older MBA, so I wonder if I've migrated some setting that is causing problems ... Any ideas are appreciated! Michael

Yes, that's normal.
Yes.
About Batteries in Modern Apple Laptops
Apple - Batteries - Notebooks
Extending the Life of Your Laptop Battery
Apple - Batteries
Determining Battery Cycle Count
Calibrating your computer's battery for best performance
MacBook and MacBook Pro- Mac reduces processor speed when battery is removed while operating from an A-C adaptor
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Tecra S3: battery fully discharged if it's off for one week

I´ve got a Tecra S3:
Intel® Centrino? Mobiltechnologie Intel® Pentium® M Prozessor 760
XP Pro/ 1024 DDR2/ 80GB/ 15.0" TFT/ DVD-Super-Multi(DL)/ Wi-Fi
Mostly I work with ac power. Only sometimes I need the battery.
But when I use the battery, discharge it fully.
After that the battery is charged over night.
When my S3 is off for one week,
my battery is fully discharged and the S3 needs ac power.
Is that normal?
Why is my battery fully discharged
if the S3 is off for only one week.

Hi
The fact is that battery looses the energy also if the notebook is disabled.
Im not sure about the time and how long should it takes.
The same thing happens on my old Satellite A50.
I thing it depends from the battery performance and how old the battery is.

Ipod Battery Fully Discharged!!!

Hi i just recently brought a new 5G 30 gig ipod and a few days later the battery got fully discharged and now i have had the battery thing with the lightning bolt over it, and the site says its charging but i have had it like that for 2 days and it still wont charge or connect to my computer.
Any Advice anyone?????
thanks
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i have the same problem, only mine doesn't have enough power to even turn on again, so i don't know about your case, but i'm pretty sure if it just says charging for that long it isn't even doing it. I left mine on for a night and a half then watched 20 minutes of video and now can't do anything with it. Someone figure this out and help us both.

My MacBook Pro battery is empty and won't charge, but charger is fine

My MacBook Pro battery is empty and won't charge. I did the PRAM reset when there was still some power left in the battery. The charger indicator light doesn't come on when I connect it to MacBook Pro, BUT it works just fine with my old white Mac book. This happened a few times before, and unplugging and plugging the adapter into the MacBook pro helped. Now nothing happens no matter how many times I reset the charger. Is there anything else I can do?

More than likely you need a new battery.

My i pod touch was fully discharged and now will not charge

my i pod touch was fully discharged and now will not charge at all. what can i do

Try the not charging topic of:
iPod touch: Hardware troubleshooting
Also try another cable, another charging source. Further look at the dock connector in the iPod. Look for abnormalities like foreign material, bend or corroded contacts, broken or cracked plastic.

Hi, yesterday I was a strange thing happened. my iphone was fully discharged and went out, when I turned there were not any messages. This has never happened to anyone?

hi, yesterday I was a strange thing happened. my iphone was fully discharged and went out, when I turned there were not any messages. This has never happened to anyone?
Thank you.!

thanks KiltedTim.....i hope its new...i brought it new so why would i want a refurbished one.
I think you might be right with them not being out long enough...well here's hoping

HT201263 iPad won't restore, shows apple logo, won't restart. Battery is low but won't recharge. Is it a sudden loss of battery function?

iPad won't restore, shows apple logo, won't restart. Battery is low but won't recharge. Is it a sudden loss of battery function?

If you were restoring to a backup or resetting back to factory defaults, then have you tried recovery mode : http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4097 ?

HT4061 ipad 2 does not restart when battery is fully discharged and has been put on charge - any one have a solution?

Ipad 2 - battery has fully discharged - connected to mains charger but no sign of charging and will not retstart on button press.
Tried re set and holding both buttons independently.
Tried other chargers taht are working with other iPads.
Any ideas?

Try a reset:
Hold the Sleep and Home button down until you see the Apple logo.

Battery FULLY discharged overnight

Good Morning everyone! yesterday I fully charged my Ipad Mini Retina 16 GB IOS 7.1.2 , I used it for some minutes and I put in in standby mode for the night. This morning I woke up and the battery was FULLY discharged, I had to recconnect my ipad to the charger and now it seems that it is charging properly.
What is happened? do I have to get worried? because my Ipad is still under the international warranty, is it better if I check with an Apple Store? Somebody else got the same problem? how did you solve it?
thanks for your answers and feedbacks,
Stefano

Push email has always used a lot of battery as it trys to keep an IP connection open to the email server. Using Chattermail (on a Palm Treo) the Push settings had several optimizations that could be used to lessen the update frequency, not try to push when the signal was weak, etc. Even with those settings enabled, I had to recharge that (extended) battery every 36 hours or so.

My iphone 5s fully discharged and is switced off..how to restart it again or charge it!?? plz help me!, my iphone 5s fully discharged and is switced off..how to restart it again or charge it!?? plz help me!

when now i suddenly checked my iphone it was switchd off and after again again pressing of wake/sleep button then also it is now getting swtiched on! i think my battery is fully discharged !! nw how to charge my phone nd or start it!! can anyone please help me!

Let it charge using the adapter for about 10min, then connect in recovery mode, explained in this article:
iOS: Unable to update or restore

IPhone 4s battery suddenly drained and won't hold a charge

This afternoon the battery on my iPhone 4s suddenly began to show that my battery was drained, then shut off completely and won't charge. I've tried holding down the home button for longer than a minute and I've tried holding down the home button and the power button at the same time but it still won't turn on. I've also tried leaving the phone to charge without touching it. This is my second replacement phone (which means it's my third iPhone 4s) and I only got it in October. It's hard to believe that it's the battery when it's relatively new, but I know that's a possibility. Anyone have any suggestions of what else I should try before I go into the Apple store yet again for a phone issue?

Ok, thanks for that info. Well I know this probably isn't what your going to want to hear, not that it's necassarily bad advice. I would suggest taking your phone into your nearest Apple Store, make an appointment with the Genius Bar first (it will just make things go smoother). The overheating/dying battery thing is a known problem. They'll either send your phone into get fixed, or you'll get a new phone. Just make sure to do a backup (in iTunes) first, as that way you'll have the most recent info to sync to should they replace your phone.
You can also call 1(800)MY-IPHONE. see if they have any ideas, but I think you'll find they'll reccomend the same thing.

Battery fully discharged and won't RECHARGE

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