Battery update in MacBook?

I have a MacBook (mid 2007), and i go to update the battery on the support website but it doesnt work, it says i need Tiger or Leopard and newer. Is this not updating because i did update from Tiger to Snow Leopard? I need help with my battery because it doesn't last long without me needing to plug it up. Can someone demystify the mystified?
-Pandapanda

Have you seen these Apple Support articles? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3421 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1359
Go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info, then select Power from the left hand column of the System Profiler. Copy and paste the Battery Information back here.

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I have a Macbook pro 4,1 My Battery would not charge after only 23 cycles. I tried the battery update now my macbook will not boot. it has a kernel panic Unable to find driver for this platform:

Macbook 4,1
Early 2008 15" macbook pro
Running Snow Leopard
the Battery was not working after only 23 cycles
I tried the Battery update and now it will not boot at all
I really do not want to loose my data on the drive
panic message is
Unable to find driver for this platform: "ACPI".\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1378
Please help

Panic Message
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x000x563ebd) : Unable to find driver for this platform:
"ACPI".\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1378
Debugger called: <panic>
Backtrace (CPU 0), Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
(7 lines of hex)
BSD Process name corresponding to current thread: Unkonwn
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0" todays date ; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/release_I386
I tried to boot from CD can, but i dont want to loose any information.
Tried disk tools
Hardware test
Tried to check if it was memory sticks failing or battery , nothing else plugged in
if i boot holding Apple key and S
I get additional warnings about AppleACPIPlatform and not being able to load Kext

MacBook and MacBook Pro Battery Update

http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate/
Apple has recently discovered that some batteries used in its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks may have battery performance issues. Apple is offering a software update that is designed to improve battery performance.
The battery update is available immediately via Software Update or downloadable here.
Note: The factors causing the performance issues do not present a safety risk. You may continue to use your current battery.
This battery update should be run on all MacBook and MacBook Pro computers and extra batteries that were purchased between February 2006 and April 2007.
If, after you have installed the battery update, your battery has any of the symptoms listed below, please make a reservation to bring your computer with its battery to your local Apple Retail Store, or contact an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP), or call your local Apple Support Contact Center. If Apple or an AASP determines that your battery is eligible for replacement, you will receive a new battery, free of charge, even if your MacBook or MacBook Pro is out of warranty.
For MacBook and MacBook Pro systems with Intel Core Duo processors, this program extends repair coverage on the battery for up to two years from the date of purchase of the computer.
Identifying an affected battery
Affected batteries will have one or more of the following symptoms:
Battery is not recognized causing an “X” to appear in the battery icon in the Finder menu bar.
Battery will not charge when computer is plugged into AC power.
Battery exhibits low charge capacity/runtime when using a fully charged battery with a battery cycle count (as shown in System Profiler) of less than 300.
Battery pack is visibly deformed.
Note: If your MacBook or MacBook Pro battery does not have any of the symptoms noted above, your battery does not need to be replaced.
Next Steps
To participate in this worldwide program, your MacBook or MacBook Pro battery must show the symptoms noted above. If it does, please make a reservation to bring your computer and battery to your local Apple Retail Store, or contact an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP), or call your local Apple Support Contact Center. The U.S. support number is 1-800-275-2273. If you are located outside the U.S., please see Apple's international contact list for your local Apple Technical Support phone number. An Apple technical support representative or an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP) will determine if the battery is eligible for replacement, free of charge. Customers are responsible for transportation costs to eligible AASPs and retail stores.
If a replacement battery is sent to you via airmail, it is important that you return the older battery to Apple so that it can be properly recycled.
This program extends repair coverage on the battery for up to two years from the date of purchase of the computer for Intel Core Duo-based MacBook and MacBook Pro computers. Apple will continue to evaluate the battery update program and will provide further extensions as needed. Apple also reserves the right to modify the program if other solutions that address the battery performance issues become available.

For MacBook and MacBook Pro systems with Intel Core Duo processors, this program extends repair coverage on the battery for up to two years from the date of purchase of the computer.
Pretty nice change for those C2D's

Macbook Pro Battery Update 1.2 Issues

Just installed the Battery Update 1.2 on my Macbook Pro and now when running off the battery, the system automatically shuts down when it reaches 35%. What kind of an update is this?
I didn't have any battery issues prior to installing the update, and simply updated thinking that maybe it might give me more battery life, and as it was official software, it would be rather innocuous - I was wrong.
Is there a way to reverting the software to its original state?
The battery has a cycle count of 89.

Calibrating MacBook Pro batteries...
PowerBook G4 (15-inch Double-Layer SD), MacBook (all models), MacBook Pro (all models), and MacBook Pro (17-inch) (all models)
The battery calibration for the PowerBook G4 (15-inch Double-Layer SD) and any model of MacBook or MacBook Pro 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 or LED 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.

Installed Battery Updater 1.2, but MacBook still shutting down

Lately my MacBook has been shutting down with about 18% battery life left. I came onto these forums, followed the directions for removing Battery Updater 1.3, successfully installed 1.2, but it's still shutting down.
Is there anything further I can do? Is it possibly just an old battery? (I bought this computer in December '06.) If it matters, my cycle count is 335. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

I was having the same problem and now it is fixed-- here's an update:
I finally had to take my macbook to the apple store. Basically, the battery died (saw the X in the battery status and it would only run plugged in). They got the battery to work again in the store by resetting the SMC (which I had tried too, but whatever) but they agreed the battery was messed up.
The weird thing is it showed my battery had like 422 charge cycles, even though I've had it like 8 months and I only run it off the battery a few times a day (and not often all the way until the battery runs out).
Anyway they replace the battery, and while I was there I showed them the stains on the top part of my case (the piece with the keyboard) and I told them about my screen sometimes flickering in terms of brightness. They said that those were known issues, and they'd fix it.
So I got it back 24 hours later, with a new battery and new keyboard piece. Cost me nothing and it works great. It is practically like a new computer and my battery lasts MUCH longer than it used to.

Do I have the correct Battery UpDate installed in My MacBook?

I have a May 2006 (original) white MacBook and I see that I installed the Battery Update 1.2 must be a couple of years ago now-- but then I see Battery Update 1.4 -- OK it is not for my MacBook; but when checking this out, I see that neither is Battery Update 1.3 - yet when I go to /System/Library/SystemConfiguration and do a GET INFO on BatteryUpdater.bundle - it says 1.3 under version; but that's what it is supposed to say if Battery Update 1.3 is installed; mine should say: BatteryUpdater 1.2 -- so now I'm wondering if I have to re-install Battery Update 1.2 or not; whether I'm causing problems (same original battery after nearly 3 years; but I run 95% on the AC transformer - but I do notice that my battery-only time is not much more than an hour).
Any comments appreciated--
Best regards,
Steve Schulte
Wednesday 11 March 2009 at 14:17

I just want to say THANK YOU THANK YOU and it is people like you who make these discussion groups so wonder, so informative-- and prevent people like me from having heart attacks and allow us to sleep at night!!
This is just great-- I really i mean REALLY appreciate this-- so very kind of you to take the time to point this out to me. I just love my MacBook- was ready to get a new one-- had the cash in hand (literally-- cash!) in Texas (and I live in Belgium!) about 20 Oct 2008 when I saw NO FIREWIRE PORT on the new MacBook-- I'm still with my May 2006 white MacBook and this is the longest (nearly 3 years) I have gone since my first 1989 Mac SE without purchasing at least one new MAC!!
OK if USB3 can best FireWire-- sounds great-- but will my EUR 2000 (about a billion dollar) investment in FireWire LaCie HD's work with USB3?
OK I'm rambling but am such a MacNut! Thanks for your reply!
Steve

Cannot install Battery Updater 1.2 on MacBook

When I download Battery Updater 1.2 and try to open it, Disk Utilities opens and asks me to save: BatteryUpdate2007001.pkg When I hit "Save" it says I can't save it unless I change the file extension to .dmg. Then it saves the file with .pkg extentioin. When I try to open this file the whole process starts over again.
When I try to open the file with DiskImageMounter I get the same results.
Any idea how to get off this merry go round and actually install the updater?

Hey, you've found one of the 200+ improvements to Tiger! j'k
Problem is, it's not supposed to open in Disk Utility... we could straigten that out, (probably should), but in DU highlight it and look for the Mount button, then go to finder, look in the sidebar for it, click on it, double click on the pkg.
I the finder Right click on it, choose Get Info, look for open with, it should say Disk Image Mounter, but says now DU I bet.

HT3421 Battery Update 1.4 won't run under 10.6.8?

Getting the 'Service Battery' warning under the battery menu, noticed some have mentioned the need to run Battery Update 1.4 but when I try to I get an error that I need Leopard 10.5.6 or better. Guess SL 10.6.8 doesn't qualify as 'better'?
FWIW: CoconutBattery reports: "MacBook 4,1 43 months old w/ 263 loadcycles with max 22% capacity"

I also updated to SnowLeopard directly when it came out, and shortly afterwards lost my power adapter so didn't use my Mac for two weeks.
Today found the power adapter again (thank god, 'cause those things are expensive) and now my Macbook won't charge! I found the Battery Update 1.4 might help me but that one isn't working on systems running SnowLeopard...
What to do? I know since recently (There was a critical story in my local newspaper about failing Macbook batteries) that a lot of batteries of the late 2008 series plastic Macbook are failing on people and that you can only charge one about 300 times. That sounds so weird to me because that would mean I'll have to spend €139,- every year on a new battery!!! That would make my Macbook cost a grand total of more than €1500,- if i'd use it for about 4 years.. Now that *****! (excuse my language but I'm truly shocked!)

Battery updat problems

this probbly isnt the right place to do this but here goes. bought this laptop from a friend who lost his charger and cant get it back. when i got this thing it was fully dead so i ordered a 60 watt powersafe adapter or whatever its called. now it works but it wil NOT charge the attery. i found the battery update but when downloaded it says it doesnt have a specified application to open the program with. i am very fustrated now and am alomst thinking about getting rid of this thing. what do i open the battery update with and will this even help with my problem?
i will love you if you can help me with this
thanks

Welcome to the Forum.
It could be a faulty battery... I hope your MB still
under warranty.
Technically all MacBooks are still under 1 year old till the 16th of May 2007. That will be the one year anniversary of their release:->
After that it will depend on the original purchase date.
Of course there are instances where the computer may not be considered under warranty due to accident and other sundry events.
Best way to be sure is go here and at the bottom of the page enter the serial number and see what coverage apple says you still have.
http://www.apple.com/support/
Mort

Battery life on Macbook Pro (3 hours?)

I just got this laptop. It's a 15.4" MBP. I installed Snow Leopard on it from the upgrade DVD (from Leopard). All is well, but the estimated battery life is around 2:30 - 3:30. I've had the battery on charge for days and the button on the left of the mpb indicates a full charge.
Is it some services that are running? Is the estimate just way off (I know they usually are)?
My brightness is 3 blocks from full. I have iTunes (playing), Terminal (no activity), Adium, MacVim, iCal, Firefox running. Does this sound accurate?

i have a unibody late 2008 w/c lasts about 2Hrs+ or 3Hrs max. is your macbook pro the built in battery?early 2009 and mid 2009 model?if so that doesn't sound right since the built in battery have 7hrs battery life "ideally" but reality its just 4-5hours. I've tested 3 of them already and all have same behaviors.(2mid 2009 macbook pro and 1 early 2009 macbook)
Airport: off
Bluetooth: off
Brightness: 2 bars
only running: safari and quicksilver
no external device plugged in
no CD inserted
have the latest battery update and firmware update
so yeah not a bug not an issue with battery but that's just how it is. Macworld already did some lab bench test on their own and so did the other mac fanatics. I just don't get why sometimes Apple says it will last 5hours if it won't.

I just update my macbook pro software last week.....

I just update my macbook pro software last week, and my battery life drop from 5hr to 2hr, even when full charge. anyone else faces the same problem?

Here you go: http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/

Problems after Battery Update 1.4

Has anyone noticed that since installing the Battery Update 1.4, their battery life has been reduced significantly? Prior to the patch I was getting a good several hours from a full charge, now I am lucky to get 1.5 hours.
Also, while the patch was meant to improve the Macs ability to +'maintain its charge when shut down and not used for an extended period'+, I immediately noticed the first night that I shut down with 3/4 battery and woke up the next morning with 1/4.
I have read of several people having issues with the battery not charging or taking a long time to charge - I haven't noticed if I am having this trouble as well.
Anyone??
Specs:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Battery Information:
Model Information:
Serial Number: DP-ASMB016-3891-2b88
Manufacturer: DP
Device name: ASMB016
Pack Lot Code: 0003
PCB Lot Code: 0000
Firmware Version: 0110
Hardware Revision: 0500
Cell Revision: 0102

My battery was great I never had to take my charger with me, but after Battery Update 1.4 my battery only lasts half as long now, and if I didn't use it for a week my battery was still 80%-90% now if I don't use it for a week I only get half an hour before I have to plug it in.
THIS UPDATE HAS CAUSED THE PROBLEMS THAT IT WAS MEANT TO FIX!
I only installed this update to be a good little consumer and have now ruined the performance of my macbook, I have tried to uninstall it and rollback to the previous version with out success.
Please help?
Battery Information:
Model Information:
Serial Number: DP-ASMB016-3770-5315
Manufacturer: DP
Device name: ASMB016
Pack Lot Code: 0003
PCB Lot Code: 0000
Firmware Version: 0110
Hardware Revision: 0500
Cell Revision: 0102

Fan on all the time since Battery Update 1.2 installed

my fan stays on all the time now. this only started happening recently -- about the same time as i installed the Battery Update 1.2. It might be just coincidence.
is any one elses macbook pro doing the same thing?

Good news re it stopping
For Modesty0007,
If the problem doesn't occur on a new account it most likely means you have a process running on your other account that uses up a lot of CPU, making your computer temperature go up and the fan spin harder in turn.
Go back to your usual account and have a look in Activity Monitor to see if you have a process running that fits the description.

Problems after Battery Update 1.2

Hello.
I have downloaded the Battery Update 1.2. Since i have installed the update, my macbook won't go in stand-by modus if my battery is empty. The macbook takes a hard shut-down.
Have anybody a solution?
Thanks, Hoppsi.

Contact apple at the number in this. Sounds like you need anew battery. Mine was doing this also and I needed a new battery.
http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate/
Mort

After Battery Update, Battery Tops Off At 96%

Hi. Have a MacBook and I did the battery update recommendation and now the battery never reaches 100% charge, it always goes to 96% and it runs down much faster. Has anyone else noticed any differences in the MacBook batteries after the update 1.2?
Thanks steve

hey, i'm having this same problem but i've been noticing that it's because temperatures are spiking up to 130 C when i run Rember for only 30 seconds. This has only been happening after the battery update, before i was only getting maxed out temps of 75C

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