Incorrect Battery Time

I recently started having a problem with my battery time display. The battery still lasts about two hours on a full charge, however, the time and percentage displayed are very wrong. As of right now, it says I have 11:39 remaining or 93%. In reality, I probably have about an hour left and about 40-60% remaining. I have tried recalibrating it several times to no avail and I have also tried resetting the power manager. Using coconutBattery, it shows that I have a battery capacity of 23863 mAh (I wish!) when it should be 5400 mAh. Please let me know if anyone has any ideas on how to get the time and percentage reading back to being accurate. Thanks!

I'm assuming that you have an older PowerBook, or possibly an older battery. I have this problem on my PowerBook, but mine will stay on 100% for like an half hour and then drop to 90% and then to 80, so on and so forth. This is a problem with OS X and has been a problem the plauged PowerBooks for years now (even on my Mac Portable, I had problems). So you just got to make notes for yourself and go with it.

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