Battery quitting at 30% capacity left

Same question as many below: battery quits around 30% capacity left! Not more then 1/2h of running life with only a browser window open.
Being at 133 charging cycles and less then 2 years old [replacement battery due to recall], what should I do?

my g3 also has the same problem at around 48%. i get about 4 hours on the battery. it just goes to sleep. try recalibrating the battery by letting it sleep to fully drain the battery for at least 5 hours.

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easy question I'm sure. imac hard full (500gb) mostly from iphoto. no capacity left. what are my options? I've thought of an external drive of 1tb and then a 2nd external drive of 3tb to back up both???? please help.

Those are the options - more space is more space.
Moving the iPhoto Library is simple:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD

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So, after just 671 cycles my MBA 13 mid 2012 has only 4871 mAh of full battery capacity left. In the battery menu it says "battery service".
I'm pretty disappointed by the very poor quality of a rather expensive Notebook.

Any other hints on battery care would be appreciated.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1764220
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1490
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I purchased my MacBook Pro in November. System Profiler and CoconutBattery report my battery capacity at 4756 mAh, or 87% of the initial 5450 mAh capacity. I've followed the steps to calibrate my battery twice over the past two weeks, which brought it up one percent from 86% to 87%. I've done, apparently, 82 charge cycles.
Is there a problem with my battery? I don't have AppleCare, but am assuming that a battery replacement is the kind of thing covered under warranty without it.

It is definitely on the low side for a battery in an MBP13, nusilver. These batteries are rated to 1000 cycles at 80% of original capacity (compared to SU's older model which is rated for 300 cycles at 80% capacity). My own MBP 13 , after just over 100 cycles since August last year, is still sitting on over 98%.
They may not be prepared to change it until it drops below the "official" figure of 80%, but I'd certainly take it in for testing to an Apple Store or AASP. A battery that has lost capacity at this sort of rate is likely to fail a "stress test" in which case I suspect they will replace it immediately anyway.
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I am currently using a PB G4 15" (high res DL SD) and I've had it for about a month. I just read about calibrating the battery and went ahead and did it. Have I done any damage to the battery or shortened it's effectiveness by waiting a month to calibrate rather than when it was first out of the box?
Also, i also just read about checking the battery charge capacity using the system profiler. My charge capacity prior to calibration was 2731 and after calibration it's 2930. However, it sounds like it should be in the 4400's based on the posts I've read. What do these numbers mean and do I have a faulty battery since it's so low?
Thanks for your help.

Hi Kevin --
Yeah, I'm not loving those numbers you posted either. I'd try performing the calibration procedure once or twice more to make sure that that battery capacity number doesn't change.
The other thing I would do if I were you is download Coconutbattery: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27425
It's a free app available at versiontracker and it will tell you your battery's original capacity as well as it's current capacity.
I agree with you that a capacity of 2930 mAh after only a month of use and 16 cycles suggests that your battery is defective and should be replaced at no cost to you under the terms of the warranty.
For a frame of reference, after 10 months of use and 166 load cycles, my battery's original capacity of 4400 mAh is now 4228 mAh. No way yours should be in the 2930 mAh range.
When you call AppleCare to arrange for a replacement, if in fact that's what you end up needing to do, the agent you speak with, in addition to making sure that you've properly calibrated your battery a few times (as mentioned earlier) may also ask that you reset your PB's Power Management Unit (PMU). While I'm skeptical that a PMU reset will alter the outcome, you can find instructions on how to reset the PMU here (just in case you need to): http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449
Good luck and please post back how everything turns out.
-- JDee
PS. You probably know this, but the calibration procedure has been changed slightly for your DL hi-res version of the PB. Here it is below, just to make sure:
PowerBook G4 (15-inch Double-Layer SD)
The battery calibration for the PowerBook G4 (15-inch Double-Layer SD) has been updated because of a new battery released with this computer. With these computers, follow these steps to calibrate your battery:
Plug in the power adapter and fully charge your PowerBook's battery until the light ring on the power adapter plug changes to green and the onscreen meter in the menu bar indicates that the battery is fully charged.
Allow the battery to rest in the fully charged state for at least two hours. You may use your computer during this time as long as the adapter is plugged in.
Disconnect the power adapter with the computer still on and start running the computer off battery power. You may use your computer during this time. When your battery gets low, you will see the low battery warning dialog on the screen.
Continue to keep your computer on until it goes to sleep. Save all your work and close all applications when the battery gets very low, before the computer goes to sleep.
Turn off the computer or allow it to sleep for five hours or more.
Connect the power adapter and leave it connected until the battery is fully charged again.
Tip: When the battery reaches "empty", the computer is forced into sleep mode. The battery actually keeps back a reserve beyond "empty", to maintain the computer in sleep for a period of time. Once the battery is truly exhausted, the computer is forced to shut down. At this point, with the safe sleep function introduced in the PowerBook G4 (15-inch Double-Layer SD) computers, the computer's memory contents have been saved to the hard drive. When power is restored, the computer returns itself to its pre-sleep state using the safe sleep image on the hard drive.
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I'm at my wit's end with this problem I've been having, so I hope someone here can point me in the right direction.
The gist of my story is that the battery on my notebook seems to be quitting while it's still over 40 percent charged.
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Hallo,
I have question about Battery gauge reset feature.
Recently my notebook's full charge capacity drops to 80% (57Wh design capacity about 45Wh real capacity). The Power manager announce me that it is right time to perform battery gauge reset. I said ok, I will do it over night. Before I started reset I closed all applications and give it a try. In the morning I found, that the reset doesn't help at all and even drops to 38Wh (68%). To be honest I haven't been just disapointed I was angry. I used Lenovo feature to lower quality of my HW? Ok, maybe I went wrong.. I said to me. I will try it again. I restarted computer, have the background services as clean as possible and try it again. Now I have only 65% of designed capacity and wondering if there is (hopefuly) some way to get more energy to my battery. Is it possible?
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Hello alltogether,
i received my macbook yesterday and used it a lot. Now on the second day, after 5 loadcycles i`ve only 91% battery capacity. Is that ok? I don`t think so. I recalibrated it with no result.
Batterie ist installiert: Ja
Frühwarnung wegen geringem Ladezustands der Batterie: Nein
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Verbleibende Kapazität (in mAh): 3309
Stromverbrauch (in mA): 1650
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