Battery life on my G4 iBook

I have had my iBook for 2.5 years now and I find the charge life on the battery is a little over an hour. Is this a normal time concidering the age of the battery? Is there anything I can do to extend this life? Where is a good place to get a new battery if all else fails?
Thank you so much for looking at my questions.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6) purchased 12/2003

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
In the future, please post your own thread. The question you're asking is related to this issue, but is not identical.
Anyway! On to an answer to your question.
I don't know if I count as a "reliable source"
But the battery in an iBook G4 doesn't need to be drained before being charged.
Basically, you can charge it whenever you have the chance to plug it in--whether it's 70% or 20% won't matter (except for how long it'll be charging).
About once a month you should calibrate your battery. This means fully draining, fully charging, then fulling draining again. This helps keep your battery in tip-top shape (and helps the battery power meter stay accurate).
Does all of that make sense?
Any other questions?
~Lyssa
~iBook G4 1.07GHz (Kaiya), with extra 256MB RAM ~and a red Apple logo~(Mac OS X 10.3.9)~ LaCie 160GB external hard drive~ ~3G 15GB iPod (Nakai)~ ~GiveStarsto users who earn them.~

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I have used my ibook G4 for 1year and 3 month already, but now the battery suddenly showing some strange loss of its battery life, it takes only around 50 minutes for full charge, and after that only around 45 minute i can use before it drains out,
usually when the battery drains out, my ibook will go to sleep mode and it will maintain the sleep mode as long as i want it to be, but now what suprise me, when the battery drains out, it will suddenly turn off my computer instead going to sleep mode, it have happen twice now, so thats what makes me very worried, im so frustrated because i take care the battery so well but it suddenly become like this, not in a degrading fashion, its all in a sudden...since 2 days ago...
first question of all, is my battery life altered? or my battery already dying? what should i do? change to new battery? the new battery is so expensive...
2nd question, will my computer be damaged if it suddenly turn off like that without shutting it down properly?
hope somebody can help me on this

Welcome to Discussions!
Yes, if your iBook is not going in to "sleep mode", and abruptly turning off, it can cause damage over time. You said that is "fully charged" after 50min. Try leaving it plugged in for a full 24 hours, and see if that extends battery life at all.
Question? Are you running any processer intensive applications when its on the battery? Anything such as an audio/video application, anything with mathmatiacal equations, playing games, using the CD ROM drive, ect... All of those factors can shorten battery life. When the iBook runs out of power, it should automatically go to sleep, and remain in sleep for a day or two before finally shutting off.
Try resetting the PMU (Power Management Unit) ((taken from the Apple Support website))
1. If the computer is on, turn it off.
Reset the power manager by simultaneously pressing and then releasing Shift-Control-Option-Power on the keyboard. Do not press the fn (Function) key while using this combination of keystrokes.
Wait 5 seconds.
Press the Power button to restart the iBook computer.
Reset the PRAM:
1. Shut down the computer.
2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
3. Turn on the computer.
4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
6. Release the keys.
Reset the NVRAM:
1. Turn on your iBook
2. Before the grey screen, press command-option-O (letter)-F
((O is for "open", and F is for "firmware"))
3. You will be at a grey screen displaying some information.
4. At the Prompt, type "reset-nvram" press return.
5. Type "reset-all" press return
6. Type "mac-boot" press return
I hope this helps!
Best,
-josh

Sudden drop in iBook g4 battery life?

My wife's iBook G4 maintained a truly stellar battery performance from purchase to sometime last week, regularly delivering between 3 and 4 hours per charge. Sometime last week, that changed very suddenly and dramatically to just over 30 minutes.
While gradually declining battery life is the norm, such a precipitous decline makes me very strongly suspect that the battery is still holding a charge in line with the battery's track record and that the low-charge message is some sort of bug.
Is there any record of such an issue, how do I verify or dismiss my suspicions, and what might account for a sudden loss of over three hours of charge time?

Hi Mike,
Difficult to say without knowing how old your wife's iBook is and how many charge cycles the battery has done. As I understand it, the loss of battery capacity due to age/charging cycles is non linear and that capacity can drop dramatically and suddenly after 2-3 yrs/300-500 charge cycles.
(Very vague, I know. Such is the nature of the beast.)
You have omitted to mention which OS is relevant but if your wife's iBook is running 10.4 the battery info can be obtained via the Apple menu>About this Mac>More info, then scroll down to Power.
If the OS is 10.3.x then open Terminal in Applications>Utilities and enter:
ioreg -w0 -l|grep Capacity
and press return. (Works in 10.4 too…)
Either way, copy and paste the info into a reply here and someone will be able to give a more informed opinion.
Adrian

New iBook with 4 hour battery life? should I ask for a replacement?

after about two months of use, my iBook is only getting 4 hours of battery life, I've done everthing right with it, per apple's own instructions.
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thanks hope somone knows what's up with it, I would have liked my 6 hours as promised.

Please read the terms of use here about discussing policy on the link on the right hand side.
4 hours is actually quite normal. There is a part of Apple's website which explains how to optimize battery life:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
If after optimizing your battery you aren't getting satisfactory results, you can certainly try to take it to a service center to see if they will replace the battery to see if it is the battery or the power management of the computer.
I'd only worry about the battery though if you were consistantly only getting about 1.5 hours or less out of it.
6 hours was never "promised". Read this page carefully:
http://www.apple.com/ibook/specs.html
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IPhone4 Battery life: The report you all have been waiting for!!!

Hello fellow iPhoners,
I'm a proud owner of an iPhone4 who have been getting sporadic battery performance for a little while. One day I can get 5 to 6 hours of usage while another the phone can barely make it past 4 hours doing the same things.
Therefore, I decided to start my own observation and document my findings regarding why my iPhone 4 can give me good battery on some days and terrible in others.
Intro:
Now I'm sure all of you have read all the typical battery saving tips such as turn off fetch, dont game too much blah blah blah. Well, I wanted to know what is the real world impact do these things really do on battery and how much better is the battery life with them off.
The following are always ON for me: Wifi, notifications (no push or fetch), edge (I never use 3g - too slow anyway).
Screen brightness is set in the middle so IOS decides when to raise or lower it. Actually IOS seems to only be able to brighten the screen if you say, walk from a dark to well lit room. The reverse seems not possible. You must put your phone to sleep and wake it in order for the display to dims.
Keep in mind I typically get between 6 to 7 hours of medium usage. But I set out to find why do I get
less than 5 hours in some cases.
Observations:
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2. Sometimes iphone will get real hot while I'm not using it. Even after a reboot, it would continue to remain hot and drains battery.
3. Observation 2 (above) has only happen 2 times unexpectedly.
Answers to Observations:
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2. When my iPhone4 gets hot on standby, I know the processor is still running(very fast) which to me means an app is still running even though IOS4 is SUPPOSED to only SUSPEND apps in the background. However, we dont know and assume apps that have not been updated to OS4 simply get closed when we press the home button. Well, I have never updated my AP Mobile app (because the latest update *****) and I feel like it may be one of the culprits that render my phone a hand warmer. However, I also feel like Call Of Duty: Zombies might be another culprit as I always have used one of these apps when the phone keeps getting hot.
Now of course I won't blame these apps solely as I also feel IOS4 itself IS buggy and may be the bigger culprit. Sometimes X'ing out everything in the background tray solved the hotness problem, sometimes it doesn't and the phone will keep on dropping in battery until it dies.
Now I always wondered how did apple arrive at their claim of "up to 14 hours talk time on 2g" and "up to 10 hours of internet use on wifi" when I can barely get within that vicinity. While I have been able to figure out how I potentially could get 14 hours of talk time on edge, I still can't see how 10 hours of internet is possible on wifi because... wait for it... WIFI as I have just discovered is one of the biggest slow battery drainers.
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Now with WIFI ON and about 2 notifications for apps, doing the same exact thing, I get between 4 to 5 minutes per 1% of battery. One may say, that's not a huge difference, but it is sizable when we do the math, 4.5 x 100 = 450 /60 = 7.5 hours of light usage. This falls in line with my usual 5 to 6 hours since I tend to play a lot of games as well, which required more battery usage than say just reading a book.
This also hold true for when the phone is on standby which drops 1% every 40 to 60 minutes with wifi OFF. With wifi ON, it was about half the time.
When I turned off notifications completely with wifi still ON, I failed to notice any significant improvements to battery life as a whole.
QUESTION:
Since I'm not an apple engineer, I was wondering if any body knows an answer to this: I'm aware that the iphone - when wifi is enabled- will keep on scanning all the time. However, I was under the impression that once it FINDS AND CONNECTS to a network, that it should STOP scanning. I mean, why should it keep on scanning if it's connected to a network already?
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Conclusion:
Despite over blown antenna issues, iPhone4 is a great device with great battery life to boot. The question is whether you are fine with say 6 to 7 hours of usage? If you would like to get more, remember to use a good outlet, turn off 3g if you dont need the data speed since phone calls tend to drop less on edge anyway, and turn off wifi when you dont really need it. Those remedies can add at least 2 extra hours of usage for you.
DISCLAIMER: Please all the above is only my opinion based on my own observation of my own iPhone4. I'm no professional techie or engineer. So no flaming or raging.
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Message was edited by: tyty415

I've had both exact problems (listed below) within days of each other just like you. This is extremely effing frustrating and it appears Apple isn't doing sh|t about it.
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Problem 2: After upgrading firmware to 1.2.2, all my content (songs, podcasts, everything) was gone.
I'm glad to say I was able to fix problem 2 after reading about reverting back to version 1.2.1. There are instructions in this forum on how to do it. If you are like me, you'll have to download the 1.2.1 files from Apple's website because they were no longer on my computer.
This dieing/dead battery problem is a major effing pain in the a$$. Like you say, the effing thing is dead after minutes. The only way it can be used for any length of time is to leave it plugged in to a charger.
No one seems to have a solution which is even more upsetting than the problem. Hey Apple, I want my money back!
DM

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Hi carocker and Welcome to Discussions.
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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
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Tips About Charging for New iPad 3
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Prolong battery lifespan for iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3: charging tips
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iPhone, iPod, Using the iPad Charger
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To Extend a Device’s Battery Life, Get to Know It Better
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iPad Battery Replacement
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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.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Since you are a new iPad user .....
Complete guide to using iOS 6
http://howto.cnet.com/ios-6-complete-guide/
Guide to Built-In Apps on iOS
https://sites.google.com/site/appleclubfhs/support/advice-and-articles/guide-to- built-in-apps-ios
You can download a complete iOS 5 iPad User Guide and iOS 6 iPad User Guide here: http://support.apple.com/manuals/ipad/
Also, Good Instructions http://www.tcgeeks.com/how-to-use-ipad-2/
Apple - iPad - Guided Tours
http://www.apple.com/ipad/videos/
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iPad How-Tos http://ipod.about.com/lr/ipad_how-tos/903396/1/
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I recently sent my battery off to Apple to be replaced as part of the ibook battery recall. Howver, how long should the battery life be? My new battery that they have sent me charges to 100% and says 5 1/2 hours battery life but then within a minute goes striaght down to 96% and 4 hours! how can I lose 1 hour's life in a minute - is this normal?should I complain to Apple?

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