Battery Showed 54% - Closed lid, Opened Showed 3% in 1 second

This has been happening a lot lately. My battery will drop from 50% to nearly zero in a couple seconds - what's the deal...

You more then likely have a faulty battery. Happened with me and was told that one of the cells in the battery had died. Over the course of a month it just got worse until I couldn't even use the laptop for more then 20 minutes on a full battery. Apple replaced it for free at the genius bar with no questions asked once I showed them the battery specs (It was still under the 1 year warranty). What they mainly wanted to see was the full charge capacity and voltage.
The new battery also seemed to fix a few other problems as well such the previous issue I had with the laptop waking up after I closed he lid.
Hope that helped.

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I bought a 2.4 GHz MBP about a week ago, as soon as I got it home I reinstalled the OS and zero-out the drive. Everything appears to work perfect until I noticed that the MBP will not sleep with the lid open.
But...
Close the lid, it sleeps.
Select sleep from menu, it sleeps.
Let the battery drain down with lid open, laptop sleeps.
Whent thru painful troubleshooting process, reseting things, permissions, what is installed, running programs...blah blah blah, nothing no difference.
So, backup the drive using superduper to external firewire and reinstall all over again, just like i did when i first got home, except I did not let it connect to the internet. I went thru and setup everything then connected and performed each update, one at a time looking for what might hinder the sleep process.
And the result is a big fat zero.
Same install process as i did the first time, and same updates as the first time. But now the laptop sleeps perfectly.
Gotta love computers, so very consistant
Just my .02 input on this wacky issue.

Try trashing these 3 .plist preferences and reboot. Reset your Energy Saver preferences.
HD > Library > Preferences > SystemConfiguration > com.apple.AutoWake.plist & com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
User > Library > Preferences > com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
Also, look at your system logs in your Console application and see what is causing the "wake event." It could be hardware-related. Do you have any external devices attached, such as a mouse or hub? I've seen Bluetooth problems with wireless BT mice.
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Intel i915, kernel output if lid opened too fast

I have an Intel graphics card, and acpid set up to turn off/on the screen based on the lid events (with vbetool's dpms ability).
At times, if I open the lid too fast, I get this output if I'm on a tty:
[drm:intel_enable_transcoder] *ERROR* failed to enable transcoder 0
I'm not quite sure what to do about it. Other than having the lid open event sleep for 1 second, that seems to have fixed it for now.
Just wanted to see if anyone else experienced this, had any advice, or thought this should be submitted as a bug report.

I have an Intel graphics card, and acpid set up to turn off/on the screen based on the lid events (with vbetool's dpms ability).
At times, if I open the lid too fast, I get this output if I'm on a tty:
[drm:intel_enable_transcoder] *ERROR* failed to enable transcoder 0
I'm not quite sure what to do about it. Other than having the lid open event sleep for 1 second, that seems to have fixed it for now.
Just wanted to see if anyone else experienced this, had any advice, or thought this should be submitted as a bug report.

The dispaly of sound icone continuously show as closed ( Mute- purple ) whereas the sound is open .

The dispaly of sound icone continuously show as closed ( Mute- purple ) whereas the sound is open . Please advise how to make it work properly - Have tried reinstalling audio driver IDT also with no success.

Hi,
It's always worth trying a Hard Reset as follows.
Shut down the notebook, unplug the AC Adapter and then remove the battery. Hold down the Power button for a full minute. Re-insert the battery, plug in the AC Adapter and start the notebook. Will the mute button change colour now?
If the above doesn't help, post back with the following.
1. The full Model No. and Product No. of the notebook ( from the service tag underneath your notebook ) - see Here for a further explanation.
2. The full version of the operating system you are using ( ie Windows 7 32bit ).
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My iMac screen keeps showing pixels of previously opened documents and Safari tabs and hour or two after closing them. The shadow of those opened documents are still there hours later after shutting down and restarting my computer. What is happening

My iMac screen keeps showing pixels of previously opened documents and Safari tabs and hour or two after closing them.
Even when I swipe to the dashboard the outlines are still there when I know they should not be.
The shadow of those opened documents are still there hours later after shutting down and restarting my computer.
What is happening and what shall I do? Thanks in advance.

Not much to go on in your product info, but maybe this will help: iMac (27-inch): AMD Radeon 6970M Video Card Replacement Program. If not, then it's time to visit an Apple repair station.
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My iPad mini won't update my apps. I have closed all open apps, done multiple resets but I show 24 updates and when I hit the update, the screen is blank.

My iPad mini won't update my apps. I have closed all open apps and done multiple resets. I hit update and the screen is blank, even though the bubble shows 14 to update.

If you are getting the blank app update screen, many people are having this problem over the last couple of days.
According to Fly150 in another discussion, this will work.
If you want to update the Apps while waiting for Apple to fix Updates:
1. Go to App Store
2. Select Purchased
3. Select All
4. Scroll down to find the Apps showing update
5. Select update on the Apps
This should update the Apps and get rid of the update count in App Store. Apple needs to fix this. It is a workaround only until then.

My Macbook is slow and the icons bounce 12-20 times before opening and the battery shows 98% when i should show 100% i forgot how to reset it please help thank you

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WIFI network performance - lid closed vs open

Hi,
I have a house that is not ideal for wifi. In particular, my office is an extension off the kitchen which has a solid brick wall between it and the rest of the house. Through 2 airport extremes, i get great wireless N signal everywhere in the house except this office. So, i added a 'N' airport express at the base of the stairs to this office and 'extended' the network.
So, i have 2 macbook pros up here. One is running on batteries, sitting on my desk, lid open. It is showing a rate of 108, signal -66 and noise -88 in the advanced wireless clients section of the airport express which it is getting it's signal from.
The next is closed and connected to a LED 24" cinema display. It is right next to the other MBP. It is showing a rate of 41, signal -80 and noise -93.
Why such a huge difference? Would it be because the lid is closed, it is connected to the display or a faulty macbook?
thanks.

In the non-unibody MacBook Pros, the antenna is in the lid, and it's under the rubberized cutout in the lid that you see just below the screen along the middle of the hinge, and it wraps around the hinge to the back. The rubber cutout is necessary because without it, the aluminum lid and case basically blocks signals.
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Wake/Sleep issue - Lid closed awake, lid open sleeping, wont wake

MBP/Lion - I'm using my MBP in dual monitor mode with an external monitor and power supply connected. If I close the lid and then disconnect the monitor, my MBP won't wake after opening the lid. I know that with Lion a change was made and the power stays on with an external monitor attached and the lid closed (with the adapter plugged in), but if you unplug the display, there doesn't seem a way out of this state. Even plugging the monitor back in, the display wont refresh (just black).
In this state the power managment is confused. When closed, the power light is on, with the lid opened the power light goes off, the display remains blank and I can't wake the device. The only solution is to re-boot.
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I got a fix for you but you have to follow these instructions exactly:
1. Unplug everything from your Macbook Pro.
2. Open Terminal.
3. Type: sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0"
4. Enter your password.
5. Reset your Mac and plug everything back in.
6. Your computer will now be free of one more lion bug.
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Ipad photobooth not working, shows curtain closing but camera seems to be off

ipad photobooth not working, shows curtain closing but camera seems to be off

Have you tried closing the Camera app completely ? From the home screen (i.e. not with the Camera app 'open' on-screen) double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the apps on the taskbar for a couple of seconds or so until they start shaking, then press the '-' in the top left of the Camera app to close it, and touch any part of the screen above the taskbar so as to stop the shaking and close the taskbar.
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TS1702 I just tried to open my notes app. It started to open, showed my topics/title, then removed everything since the last backup. Why? How do I get the information back?

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Thanks for the reply with additional information.
Recent history for Premiere Elements points to the program having problems when more than 1 video card/graphics card is
being used by the computer on which Premiere Elements is running. This observation may seem contra indicated by the fact
that you say that the program did work well about 2 years ago in the same setup. But other factors may have set in with regard
to drivers, drivers versions, and driver conflicts. But this factor, does need to be ruled in or out.
Can you disable one or the other card to determine the impact of this on your problem?
But, of prime concern with regard to video card/graphics card is the use of a NVIDIA GeForce card with Premiere Elements 10.
Even if your NVIDIA GeForce were the only card, Premiere Elements 10 will not work properly unless the NVIDIA GeForce driver
version is rolled back to about May 2013. This may be one of the major factors here.
a. Device Manager/Display Adapters and find out Driver Version and Driver Date
b. Read the background information for the Premiere Elements 10/NVIDIA GeForce issue
ATR Premiere Elements Troubleshooting: PE10: NVIDIA Video Card Driver Roll Back
Also see the Announcement at the top of this forum regarding the matter - also with full details of the situation and how to fix with the
driver version roll back.
Please review and consider and then we can decide what next.
Thanks.
ATR
Add On...This NVIDIA GeForce situation is specific for Premiere Elements 10. You should not expect to see the problem for
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Duplicate entries showing up in "Manage Open Files"

We are seeing an odd phenomenon with file sharing on our Windows Server platform. I'm posting here because I haven't seen anything quite like this in my Google searches.
Off and on, when a user will try to access a file stored on the share of our file server, the file will open in "Read Only" format. Usually this has to do with multiple users having the file open at once, but by the time the user experiencing the
issue would get around to telling me about it, I couldn't find any indication of a conflict in "Share and Storage Management" and they would be able to open the file after I prompt them to try again.
I've done my due diligence by checking for leftover locking files on the share, but have not seen any, so up until this point I've just chocked the issue up to happenstance.
However, I finally managed to catch the problem in the act. A user was showing me something on their computer when the file they tried to open showed up as "Read-only." I opened the share manager on our file server, and saw only that user had opened
the file. I asked them to close the file and try again. They did, and got the "Read-only" version again. I refreshed the view in "Manage Open Files" and saw this:
When the user opened the file, it looks like the file server thought the user opened the file 5 separate times all at once. 4 instances of the open file are marked "Read" while only one is marked "Read, Write."
Has any one seen this behavior before?
Thanks for your help,
DSell

Hi DSell,
From the screenshot it is a doc file. So please first check if there is any temp file created in the folder e:\users\nk\documents\signs. This including tmp files and files with no extension.
Shaon,
In response to your reply, I'd like to point out that I already mentioned looking for temp files and didn't find any:
"I've done my due diligence by checking for leftover locking files on the share, but have not seen any, "
Specifically this means I was on the look out for files matching the open file in the users folder starting with a "~$". In each instance, the temp file was not there. I would
also like to point out again that the file was completely closed, there were no entries of open files in the file manager before the user tried to open the file once. As soon as they tried to open it once, 5 entries of the open file showed up immediately in
the File manager. Very strange.
The user indeed has permission to read and write to the folder. I have not seen the issue occur for non-Office files, but I will report as soon as I see that behavior.

I just downloaded iOS 7, and on my home screen at the top the battery, time and service isn't showing up. How do I fix that

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Have you reset or restarted your iPhone since the update?
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Why does my note show not show correctly when I open it in my 4th generation iPod?

The instructions on how to add a note or text document to view in my 4th generation iPod nano say merely to add a copy of the text document to the 'Notes' folder shown when viewing my iPod's files in 'My Computor.' I did so with a document, but it came up only showing 'PK' when I opened it on my iPod. I also tried adding a book I had purchased from iTunes to my iPod but it also only came up with 'PK'. I don't really understand what's going on as I came view the file just fine when it's opened on my computor, just not on my iPod.

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After Firefox opened the information bar telling me they blocked a pop-up window I inadvertently clicked the option link and deleted the information bar from coming up again.
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