Battery Playing Up

I cleaned my macbook today, keyboard and all, and now my macbook isn't functioning as before, my battery percentage is at 0%, my charger is not working, my laptop is now 'indexing' and not to mention it's very loud. My battery status was at 'service battery' previously so I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it... Please help!

And now my macbook is saying I have no battery installed! ***!

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I read the post above about rescue mode and wanted to try it on my MuVo V200.
For the V200, do I take out the battery, press and hold play button and
then reinsert battery? Or what? I am guessing this from what you have
to do with the other MP3 players you list.
Please advise.
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The MuVo's don't have rescue mode, except for the MuVo?.

6735s.Failed Charger, Now Battery Playing Up? Laptop Wont Boot with Charger Plugged in!

Hi,
I have a HP Compaq 6735s and have owned it for around 2 years.The OS is windows 7 Ultimate, I have the installation CD.
The other week my charger for the laptop broke, and I ordered a new one from Amazon. The charger was advertised as an orginal/genuine HP charger (although I doubt it is).
As soon as I got the charger, I put my laptop on charge, The orange light around the charging socket came on to indicate it was charging. I leave it half hour to an hour and try to turn on the laptop. All i get is the fan on and nothing else, I pulled out the charger for a split second and the laptop boots fine. However, I left the laptop on charge overnight, and it gained only 9% charge!
When the laptop is on, and plugged in, the fan is on. As soon as I unplug the charger, the fan turns off. When the charger is unplugged, the ring around the charging socket will flash orange, and the battery will decrease very fast! Once the laptop has been powered on, and the charger unplugged, if it gets plugged in again, it doesnt charge, it just says "plugged in, not charging".
This is very frustating, and it makes me want to not use the laptop, which is not an option, as I need it.
Hopefully someone can help me!
Thanks in advance,
Matt

mattmanwrx wrote:
Hi,
I have a HP Compaq 6735s and have owned it for around 2 years.The OS is windows 7 Ultimate, I have the installation CD.
The other week my charger for the laptop broke, and I ordered a new one from Amazon. The charger was advertised as an orginal/genuine HP charger (although I doubt it is).
As soon as I got the charger, I put my laptop on charge, The orange light around the charging socket came on to indicate it was charging. I leave it half hour to an hour and try to turn on the laptop. All i get is the fan on and nothing else, I pulled out the charger for a split second and the laptop boots fine. However, I left the laptop on charge overnight, and it gained only 9% charge!
When the laptop is on, and plugged in, the fan is on. As soon as I unplug the charger, the fan turns off. When the charger is unplugged, the ring around the charging socket will flash orange, and the battery will decrease very fast! Once the laptop has been powered on, and the charger unplugged, if it gets plugged in again, it doesnt charge, it just says "plugged in, not charging".
This is very frustating, and it makes me want to not use the laptop, which is not an option, as I need it.
Hopefully someone can help me!
Thanks in advance,
Matt
Here is a link to your notebook's support portal. Use the troubleshooting in the solve a problem section.
Did you ever calibrate your battery?
Chances are that your battery is no longer serviceable. Two to three years is a reasonable amount of service life for a Lion battery if it was never calibrated and/or has been left plugged in for extended periods of time. A battery that will not charge beyond 9% probably has issues.
Use the HP Support assistant to perform a battery status check. Also consider calibrating your battery. Calibration resets the 100% to the maximum actual battery capacity.
Best regards,
erico
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The most systematic analysis of Lumia 800 battery ...

Hi, don’t mean to be arrogant, but I’ve read many threads, forums, posts etc. There are tons of info, someone tried a table, etc. but no one has attempted to summarise the relevant parameters. So here goes:
1.     I have a Cyan 800, bought locked at “3” UK, then unlocked. It’s beautiful and makes iApple UI look, well, jurassic or geriatric in comparison. The screen is so beautiful that I switched the thing on just to marvel at the ease of reading the glorious white on black (real black, not grey) and I am smitten by the ascetic aesthetics of the UI that put function over form (I simply can't stomach the saccharine animation of Apple, it is an eye candy for a while, then becomes bothersome, at least to me.
2.     Initially, I noticed that the battery life was not great, but it did not seem disastrous, and I read all the gleeful Apple worshipping media trying to fan the battery issue, but I thought that it was a storm in a tea cup and just the usual attempt to put-down any competition to Apple.
3.     Until a couple of days ago I noticed that I have less than ½ charge after only a few hours off the charger without really doing almost anything.
4.     I panicked, read as much I could the forums, etc. (including probably the most technical – XDA-Forums) but got there only one real advice, the “diagnostics” mode (dial ##634# - I also downloaded an App (called Diagnostics) that does bring you straight to the relevant page without the need to “dial” the ##634#).
5.     I then tried to see what was draining the battery, I stopped 3G connection and “presto”, the drainage stopped and I thought that I resolved the problem (at least for me, there were clearly problems with a certain hardware code, see below).
6.     For one day, the battery was very durable. Even though I had some reasonable With-Fi browsing and calls (GSM, not 3G), there was more than a 1/3rd of the battery left after about 20 hours of the last charge.
7.     Then, today, the morning began very well (in terms of the battery), it was losing less than a few percentage points every hour. I used it for light browsing and a bit of Bluetooth listening. Them my 7-yr old played some X-Box games for a bit, but the battery was way above 2/3rds. I then noticed that the phone was warm even though it was not on. Initially, I thought that it was warm because it was on my body, but then I noticed very fast fall in the battery level. Check:
a.      the 3G again, no it is still off
b.     wi-fi and Bluetooth off
c.      I even checked what Apps were in the background (though I know that it is NOT draining)
d.     - nothing helps, the drainage was high, even when the phone was closed (i.e., not used).
8.     There was nothing I could do, until I shut the phone down completely and switched it on again. Then, the drainage returned to the “good” level, i.e., a few percentage points per hour.
9.     So bottom line, I think that there was something going-on “in the background (that is why the device was warm even when closed) – the problem is that this seems to be intermittent/random and very difficult to put the finger on what causes this problem. I hope that Nokia resolves this problem and not only the “low” battery capacity (see below) that Nokia acknowledged.
So after this long intro, what do I see as the “hard-points” here? The most important parameters for the story seem to be in the following screens:
1.     “Diagnostics” (##634#) “Battery Status” screen;
2.     “Settings”/”Systems”/”about” screen, have to press the “more information” button;
3.     “Settings”/”Systems”/”battery saver” screen;
4.     The battery icon and its remaining capacity representation on the main screen.
The “Diagnostics” (##634#) “Battery Status” screen:
It seems to contain the following info:
·       “Charged” – seems to display ALWAYS the figure “65535%”;
·       “Voltage” – seems to show figures of between 3.700 V (i.e., volts) to 4.1 or 4.2 volts
·       “Current”, followed by “charging” or “discharging” and the current, usually between 130 mA (i.e., milliamp) and 500 mA.
·       “Full Charge Capacity” – showing different figures for different people, usually between slightly above 900 mAh (i.e., milli-Amper-hours) and slightly above 1,500 mAh. Although in this should logically be a fixed-for-ever, or at least in the short term level, the figure seems to fluctuate slightly, see below for more detail.
·       “Remaining Charge Capacity” – clearly the most important parameter, showing the remaining mAh in the battery. Although in theory, the level immediately after long charge should be equal or very near the “Full Charge Capacity”, in practice, it almost never is (remember, I take this not only from my case, but also from numerous reports that I got from the various forums), see below for more detail.
The “Settings”/”Systems”/”about” screen, the relevant info items:
·       OS version – it seems that the latest one (as of late dec 2011) should include “7740” in it. apparently, Nokia promised some respite from the battery bugs in this “7740” update, but from what I read in the forums, there was absolutely no difference.
·       Firmware revision number – interestingly, the firmware revision number includes “7720”, though I am not sure what it means.
·       Hardware revision number – this ends up with “xxx.3” or “xxx.4” – as below, I wonder if this is a different OEM factories designation, but it seems to me that it is the “xxx.4” that has one type of problem (low “Full Charge Capacity” of under 1,000 mAh).
The “Settings”/”Systems”/”battery saver” screen – what is relevant for us is under the “battery information” – you must unplug the phone from charger to see three lines:
·       “Remaining battery life”: supposed to be between 0 and 100% of course (though in this context, calling it “remaining battery life” is misleading, or at least inconsistent with the “remaining charge capacity” of “Battery Status” screen. Perhaps it would be better to call this “remaining charge”
·       “Estimated time remaining” – measured in hours, in my case, it is always under 15 houts. There is no explanation what it means, I would guess that this is “how many hours will your phone work in stand-by mode”, but then it is way way below what Nokia said – measured in hundreds of hours.
·       “Time since last charge – measured in hours.
So below I summarise my findings, but first, my unit parameters:
Color: Cyan (does not seem to make any difference to people out there – problems “cross” colours;
OS: “7.10.7740.16”
Firmware: 1600.2475.7720.11414
Hardware: 112.1402.2.3
So, in MY case:
1.     “Battery Status” screen:
·       “Charged” – seems to ALWAYS display the figure “65535%”, like all others on the forums. This must be some kind of mistake because it does not change or update and makes no sense, now that we are in this so deep, I hope that Nokia explains what the hell this means, if at all;
·       “Voltage” – seems to show figures of between 3.700 V (i.e., volts) to 4.1 or 4.2 volts. When the battery is low, the voltage seems also to fall below 4.0;
·       “Current”, followed by “charging” or “discharging” and the current, usually between 130 mA (i.e., milliamp) and 500 mA. When the battery “plays nice”, i.e., there is no “problem”, this figure is under 150 ma, usually going seesaw between 140 and 155. When 3G is on, it is above 250 towards 270 mA
·       “Full Charge Capacity” – showing for me usually above 1,500, constantly changes, though less frequently then other figures in this screen. Strangely I noticed that when it is cold (I was jogging and it was in an external pocket with about 7C outside), this number went lower, under 1,500. Perhaps the battery when colder can hold less charge? Nokia should explain. I think that in case of Hadware versions that end in “x.4” the maximum in this parameter is reported under 1,000.
·       “Remaining Charge Capacity” – in my unit this never reaches the “Full Charge Capacity” (which is usually slightly above 1,500 mAh), it stops below 1,350 mAh.
2.     “Battery Saver Screen” and the battery icon on the main screen:
In my case, because the “Remaining” charge never reaches close to the “Full Charge”, when I disconnect the phone from charger, I get straight that “Remaining Battery Life” is “94%” (1350/1500 or so) – and the icon is never 100% “full”, rather “almost” full. “Estimated time remaining” never really above 15 hrs.
So, there seem to be (at least) two major issues/problems in relation to battery/working-time:
1.     Firmware revision (probably) “x.4” may have a faulty battery that would not charge above 1,000 mAh (950 mAh is mentioned by many, or about 1/3rd less than intended by Nokia (unless it is a software bug, which will be huge relief for all, especially for nokia);
2.     Firmware revision “x.3” may have escaped the “crippled” battery of revision “x.4” guys, but from time to time it can lose battery charge at least 2 times faster than otherwise, most likely due to some background processes that can be felt as the device becomes warm even when not switched on (i.e., in stand-by mode). This seems to be intermittent or random and can be stopped by powering-down the phone and then powering-up again.
3.     In all cases, the claim that the phone can be several days in sand-by mode, must be wrong and Nokia must address and explain this.
So in summary, at least in respect of battery, there is a mess. Will be interesting if some people with other WP7 devices can chip-in and say whether it is similar in their cases, but Nokia should be open and explain and even admit mistakes, I hope that this can be rectified by software, or at least it is not a “terminal” complication for Lumia 800, which is a beautiful device.

I would like to thank all the people here who have taken the time to put all this info together for us all and hope it is of help to the folks who are having trouble with battery life. I'm not doing to bad on battery life myself as it always last me though the working part of the day when I don’t have access to a charger and I will soon be updating my car cradle to take the Lumia so will have access to a charger though the day to. Personally I have come from the N900 and that phone also had some battery issues when it first came out which where pretty much sorted over time, as for manufactures claims on battery life, I always read these figures the same way I would read expected miles per gallon that car manufactures put out, meaning that there would only be a very select few that would ever get what the manufactures say you can get the rest of us will all get a very wide variation on these figures. I know that Nokia have acknowledged that there is an issue with battery life and not all of us have this issue, at this moment in time I'm not to unhappy with the battery life, but if it improves then I will be pleased. From all the posts I have read on this site it does seem that some people do read manufactures specifications as if there are set in stone, I'm not criticizing anyone here would just like to say that they are trying to sell you something so have a good look at the figures and maybe check them with other independent sources if at all possible. My only disappointment really is that we have to rely on other people and not Nokia themselves to let us know what’s going on, I wish the manufacture would be more open and quicker to let us know what’s going on and what they are doing to sort out problems and some sort of time frame that we could expect something to come out to fix a problem. I know bugs can me very difficult to find and ever more difficult to fix sometimes but if Nokia put out a weekly report about how things where going on bug fixes or forth coming updates it would help everyone in deciding where they are going with their chosen product.
Again many thanks to all the people helping us all out and wish you all a happy bug free new year.

Zen Nano Plus - Used Battery vs. New Battery Prob

I downloaded some WMA files from Walmart.com and successfully transferred them to my Zen Nano Plus. They played fine. But the battery, which was already low on power, died. I switched in a new battery and tried playing WMA files, but they would only play for about three seconds before the mp3 player shut off.
I switched back in the old battery and the WMA files played just fine.
Both the old and new battery play the MP3 files, so there's no problem there.
Is the problem related to voltage or something? Please help.

Known issue, check [url="http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=dap&message.id=40235&view=by_date _ascending&page=">this thread[/url].
No solution yet, I'm afraid.

WHAT IS UP WITH IPOD BATTERY? IT'S SO WEAK....30 minutes and it's DEAD

Dude, I saw 30 minutes worth of a movie on my Ipod and it died. Is it always that weak or can I do something for it to last longer?????
thanks

Who's a dude? Maybe read these and do your own test.
IPOD Battery Playing Times:
http://ipodbatteryfaq.com/ipodbatteryandpower.html
IPOD Battery Questions - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=62018
IPOD Battery Faqs _
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I know the mini's battery only lasts so long, but how do you tell once it is wearing out for good? Part 2 of my question, in order to receive a working one from my warranty how far along does the Ipod's battery have to be until its dead? Thx plz help JG43

Jordan,
There are several things to do:
reset, several times
update the firmware
calibrate the battery and the battery meter
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I have a MBP 13" and sometimes i like to play some games on. When I do that, I like getting it with fully charged battery, play my games by using only battery (without power source connection), and when it gets about 15% of battery I just turn it OFF and put on charge again (until battery achieve 100%).
Is that the best way to have a long battery lifetime? Or can I play games with my MPB plugged on power source?
Thanks

Macs have never been known to be good game machines. PCs are a much better option in that regard.
When using the MBP with resource intensive CPU/GPU applications such as games, it is best to use AC power if it is available. That will ensure that therte will be sufficient electrical power as may be required.
The more you use the battery, the more 'wear and tear' you will place on it and lessen the life span. I use my MBP connected to the charger as much as possible BUT at least once per month I will use it just with the battery to about the 40% charge level and then reconnect to the charger. For maximum battery life, such periodic discharging is required.
You may find these Apple articles informative:
https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/batteries_power/
Ciao.

Battery problems ALREADY!

Hey guys and gals! I just received my iPod Nano in the mail 2 days ago! I love it! But I've already found a problem.
I just tested the battery life of my iPod and it only is capable of 9 hours of music playback. This is without me touching it so the backlight comes on or anything. It's supposed to last up to 14 hours. I would've understood maybe 13 hours or so but 9? That's ridiculous. That's a whole 5 hours less.
Anyways thanks for reading everyone. Is there any way to fix this problem or is it just a defective battery??
I just drained the battery(played it for the 9 hours until it switched off) and am now charging it. It's already half full and it's been half an hour. Before it took over 15 hours to charge so maybe after draining it once the battery might last longer?? Is that possible?
Cheers!

From new the iPod battery can take time getting to full potential, I wouldn't worry so soon. Have a look at these pages:
"Battery FAQ" http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=62018#16
"Tips and tricks to get the most out of your iPod's battery" http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61434
"Improve your iPod's battery performance" http://www.jakeludington.com/paulstips/20050211_improve_your_ipods_batteryperformance.html
"Accurately determine your iPod battery life" http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61475
Hope some of this helps.

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Hello World,
I have an iPad2 WiFi 16GB that has gone dead. I was perfectly working a few weeks back but now it’s almost dead.
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Since this was happening quite often I thought it could be a problem with the recently updated 7.0.4. So I thought I would upgrade it to 7.0.6 and see how it goes. With the blank screen iPad I connected to its USB cable and to my surprise iTunes detects it in DFU mode. This is the DFU with blank screen not the recovery screen that shows up with "Connect to iTunes picture" on the screen. But, if I try to update the iOS it would get stuck at the progress bar forever. No activity is observed at this point. The only way to reinstall the OS is try to hard reset the iPad by pressing the home + power buttons for more than 20 (if you are lucky) seconds and see if it comes out from DFU with a boot logo of Apple. During power up keep pressing the home button so that it enters into the recovery mode ("Connect to iTunes picture"). Then iTunes can reinstall it. But when it reboots same problem. So I know it’s not the iOS issue. Something else would have gone wrong. As time passed by the iPad wouldn’t wake up at all. It wants to be in DFU all the time. The 20 second hard reset work around too failed and it was impossible to get the iPad working. I thought it could be the battery playing up. So I purchased the iPad2 battery off ebay for $13 and replaced it. The multi-meter showed it had about 3.4v before replacing (the one in it showed about 2.8v). But, still the same issue. There is no way the iPad displays anything except if I connect to iTunes and try to reinstall the iOS. In that case it would get stuck in the progress bar at 0% with the Apple logo on top.
I need some expert opinion here. Taking it to apple for repair is not an option and the iPad is out of warranty. I would like to repair this myself and would like to know the cause of such an issue. I am an advanced user so any wise observation, expert opinions are welcome. Appreciate your time in advance.
Thanks
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I've had my 4th Generation 20 GB iPod for about 9 months now and am not at all happy with its dismal battery performance. I go through the day and it only lasts up to 4 hours. I've done apple's 'official' battery test numerous times and at most, it gets 6 hours. My question is, how do I go about sending my iPod back?

Air,
There are several things you can do to assure that the battery play time is at the maximum, completely unrelated to Apple's battery test. However, since you are intent on sending the iPod to Apple, rather than trying something else, I won't interfere.
Your frustration has blinded you to some very good input from another poster. Take a deep breath...
The VERY first thing you must do is to go to the CANADA support page. If you do that, things will work properly - I just tested it.
Despite what another poster offered, the iPods are not repaired in the US.

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Is it possible the FireWire (iLink) connection is busted?
I've bought two brand new FireWire cable and still iMovie couldn't see the camera. Camera has full battery; plays movies fine. Computer FW socket is fine too.
Please, anyone, help?
This camcorder menu is thoroughly confusing and now maybe something even worse has happened.

Hi -- I've noticed quite a few posts from Sony camcorder owners who are having similar problems. I am having the same issue with a Sony DCR TRV240. I've used this camcorder successfully before via firewire with both an eMac desktop and a Powerbook G4, but suddenly I'm getting "Camera Not Connected". Despite following all the troubleshooting advice I can find from Mac and Sony, I've had no luck. I also purchased a new firewire cord -- didn't fix the problem. Did you ever solve your issue?

Zen Micro headphone jack loosened resulting in poor earphone connect

I have had the 5g zen micro for 9 months now and love it. My battery play time has been tremendous, I migrated to the window media player and managing my music cannot be easier, I bought some high end earphones and the sound has been off the charts. But, recently, the headphone connection became loose and now my sound goes in and out, from right to left, sometimes muted or muffled...unless I hold the jack in place. It's become impossible to enjoy my music now.
I have sent a note to Creative customer service how I can get this fixed ASAP, as I don't want to be without my mp3 for an extended period of time. Has anyone had to deal with Creative on this? Do you have any suggestions?
I just bought another zen micro for a family member and now worried this may happen to them. I have not heard this problems from any of my friends that use the IPOD

Sounds like the common headphone jack problem. You need to contact support. iPods have the problem also, as do most (if not all) players. Whether the incidence is the same, who knows!

100 other posts on same topic - WHY CAN"T WE GET A DIFINITIVE ANSWER?

the battery is runs down when the thing is off. as quickly as overnight, the the battery is completely depleted.
i swear i have followed all the directions for turning it off - including using the "hold" switch! if i was listening to it, it should/would have a longer battery life.
could it be a faulty unit?

then as soon as I turn it off and start it back half the battery is gone.
Do you mean the battery meter shows half full?
That doesn't mean the battery is half gone. It's an approxiamtion. And when the HD spins up, the meter goes down. WHen the HD shuts off, it goes back up.
Check you battery play time here -> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61475

IPod G3 erased on disc utility...can't restore

Hello everyone,
I wonder if anyone can help me: in an attempt to prevent me from deleting all my music from the ipod (showed exclamation mark and folder) i deleted itunes and ipod software and attempted to reinstall - itunes 6 worked but i couldn't reinstall ipod software or the new updater (just said "nothing to install"). I then went and erased my ipod using disc utility. Its now in disc mode and has no itune/ipod software on the ipod...
Can someone PLEASE help get the appropriate software onto my ipod or I'm gonna be stuck with:
a) the world's most expensive paperweight......or
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I've already spent 6 hours tonight trying to figure it out and now i'm waving my white flag!
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I wonder if anyone else has noticed a wide variety of problems using either AAC or podcasts.
There seems to be a heavy theme where trying to listen to podcasts results in the dead-when-asleep problem where the pod is unresponsive and needs to do a hard cold boot (not sleep mode, and occurs whenever the podcast is paused or the pod goes to sleep manually or automatically when midway thru a podcast)
Also the folder/exclamation mark icon starting problems... seems to occur alot with ipods that are being used to play audiobooks and podcasts.
I had to erase/disk utility/restore my 4G ipod two weeks ago and ran it through three complete cycles of the battery playing ONLY music, all of which are still in the old mp3 style format. Nary a problem. Not ONE 'stuck asleep, needs hard reboot' issue.
The moment I reestablished all my podcast feeds and achingly resubscribed to the ones I wanted, the same folder/exlamation point and 'stuck on startup' not showing on desktop and clicking-ipod-HD- armature issues all came back... Im thinking if it will keep this up I will be forced to pay money for a flash based pod exclusively reserved for podcasts audiobooks and AAC files!
Tapping the SIDE of the ipod ( I see lots of ppl suggesting the back of the pod, which would serve only to bounce the readwrite heads into the ipod HD platter) has worked only to allow me to mount the ipod and quickly erase/restore it.... I hate the idea of havig to do this so often, its only going to wear the thing down fast.
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