Battery is Lame!!!!!

Hi all knowing mac people.
Need a little help....... I have a powerbook 15'' 1.67 (not the new one... 2nd to newest) I read on the apple site that you should reset your battery by charging it full and then leaving it for 2 hours I might have not left it for that long. and then running it down completely... it says for 5 hours or more.... I ended leaving it all night....
But now my battery takes ages to charge 2 hours... and doesnt even last 2 hours...... Im not even working it that hard!!!!
will this sort its self out.... or is my battery just rubbish?!!??!?!
Thanks
Wallace

First: check your batteries current capacity. You can do this from the Apple Menu->About This Mac->More Info..., then look under Power on the left hand column. If you have the current generation Powerbook G4 15" the Full Charge Capacity should be around 4400 (not exact). If it is significantly less than that and remains that way after you do a power manager reset and re-calibrate the battery you may have a bad battery that can be replaced by Apple.
But before you do anything first things first: if you turn your screen brighness to full up, have bluetoth and airport enabled, do a lot of stuff on the computer that accesses disk or wireless devices you may only get around 2 hours of battery life. With the screen turned down to about 1/2, using airport but not bluetooth (off) and doing web surfing I can get around 3 hours of use.

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After uploading our phones with the latest update, we have noticed that the battery life has deminished considerably. I now have to charge my phone overnight and two or three times a day. Prior to the update, my battery life lasted me at least a full day

After uploading our phones with the latest update, we have noticed that the battery life has deminished considerably. I now have to charge my phone overnight and two or three times a day. Prior to the update, my battery life lasted me at least a full day. We have several phones in our office and the ones that have updated (4) now have issue holding a charge/battery life. I really liked this phone and can not believe that you are now going to charge us $79 a battery to fix what is most definately a problem with your latest update. I know other people outside of our company that are having the same problem. Not to mention when I called AT&T it was confirmed to me that they are hearing the same issue and then some from other customers as well. Your own people, once I talked to them earlier today, told me they are showing a history of issues that are showing up after the update was put in place. Of course she tried to say, "Maybe the age of the battery and the update both contributed". Whatever.
I want you all to know how disappointed I am in your company for the handling of this issue. I always thought "Apple" was the line I didn't have to worry about having any types of issue. And that you all would stand behined your product 100%. Now I am not so sure.
I would love to hear back from your company on how you perceive the issue with all of these phones that prior to the update didn't have any issues and how after the update THEY ARE NOW having issues. I do not believe this was an issue due to the age of a battery and that was pretty lame to say so. It was fine and now its not.
Please feel free to contact me and help me figure out a way to pay for all of the batteries that will be needed for our company to contiue doing business as needed.
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Sorry this is a user to user technical forum. There is NO APPLE here as stated in the term of use when you signed up for this forum.
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So, how pervasive is the problem of theBlackberry 8310 and its icon with the red line across from it? Is it a problem with the battery? Or is it a problemwith the phone? IS there any fix?
Mine came brand new in a box a few daysago. It came with a blue battery (C-S2). As soon as I put the battery into thephone, the dreaded Icon (battery with a red line through it) showed up. I charged it, thinking that means the batteryis empty and left it charging for over 5 hours, hoping the Icon will go away.It never did, and now 4 days later and an infinite number of battery pulls, some with a twist or two, it is still there. If it was any otherpiece of technology I would dismiss it as junk. But, oh, this is the famous BB.
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We spend lots of money for a useless pieceof junk and nobody at RIM cares. If this was a car, it would have been recalled a long time ago. I will get my money back and buy somethingelse, maybe a Nokia or even a Moto. Watch out RIM, you are pissing off a lot ofpeople, and some of them are the wrong people to piss off.

Alien_X wrote:
I did not overlook anything.
I think you did. You pointed out each instance you could find when this fix did not work. You failed to point out the dozens of times this fix did work.
So, to answer your initial post questions:
So, how pervasive is the problem of theBlackberry 8310 and its icon with the red line across from it?
Not very pervasive. It certainly is not one of the top ten problems judging from the questions I see asked here and elsewhere.
Is it a problem with the battery?
Could be. Have you tried a brand new battery (I forget if you said).
Or is it a problemwith the phone?
Again, could be. There could be an issue with your battery contacts on the device.
IS there any fix?
For most, yes. We've been over that.
Try cleaning the contacts on the device. See if that helps. Try a new battery... and often new batteries are very low or close to dead upon purchase so follow the directions above to charge and bootup.
Alien_X wrote:
To: JSanders,
I had already seen this bit of lame “advice” that has been circulating on BB boards and hadtried it several times,
Oh, thank you so much. You know, you get what you give. Your initial post above did not state what you had tried several times. We don't read minds, well, I don't at least.
Alien_X wrote:
Anytime you buy a brand new item and it fails to work after 4 days of trying anything you can find I”d say you got a lemon.
You've had it four days, brand new, and you haven't returned it for a new device? That would be my first suggestion had you stated that first off. I would not keep that device if first off it didn't work. But a lemon? Nah, it's not a pervasive problem inherent to the model, which is what a lemon is normally defined as.
Alien_X wrote:
My name is neither Gambino nor Gotti,
eh, your threats make it seem so, or that you want to be. Has nothing to do with race, just your attitude here.
Alien_X wrote:
To: JSanders,
  offer no meaningful assistance whatsoever, especially for a problem that has been known for at least 10 months.
Four days or ten months?
Alien_X wrote:
Sorry to everyone else, but the personal attack was not warranted and it needed a response.
This is a community support forum. Your post above just reaks of attitude. If you're expecting users here to flock to your post to help out with that kind of attitude and silly threats, well, as you can see, it just didn't happen.
Try being nice and seeking assistance, you might just get a better response. There's been NO personal attacks on you, I don't operate that way.
Alien_X wrote:
To: JSanders,
On Moto, much as you deride it,
I'm afraid that is just indicative of whole problem here, I don't think you are reading these posts. I didn't deride the Motorola. I said you'd love it, unless you consider that derision. How odd that you would. They have great devices.
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