Magsafe light is dim green and not charging properly
Hello all,
I am hoping that someone could help me out with this. I have a Mackbook unibody from 2008 with the most curent Lion operating system. I recently started having problems with the charing of my laptop. I was using my computer one day to the point that the batery got used up and the laptop turned off. When I brought it home to charge the magsafe light turned on very dim green. It took 4hours for me to be able to start up my computer and has taken 3 days to get to 90% charge which it does not seem to go over. Bellow I have pasted information about my battery which is about 8 months old (new one i bought from apple). For some reason if you look down in the battery information, it's saying that it's not charging. I don't have apple care and money to fix it, any advice would go a long way.
Fully Charged: No
Charging: No
Battery Information:
Model Information:
Serial Number: 9G8******13DB
Manufacturer: DP
Device Name: bq20z951
Pack Lot Code: 0
PCB Lot Code: 0
Firmware Version: 002a
Hardware Revision: 5
Cell Revision: 100
Charge Information:
Charge Remaining (mAh): 3787
Fully Charged: No
Charging: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 4217
Health Information:
Cycle Count: 59
Condition: Normal
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA): 119
Voltage (mV): 12291
System Power Settings:
AC Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0
Automatic Restart on Power Loss: No
Wake on AC Change: No
Wake on Clamshell Open: Yes
Wake on LAN: No
Display Sleep Uses Dim: No
PrioritizeNetworkReachabilityOverSleep: 0
RestartAfterKernelPanic: 157680000
Battery Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0
Wake on AC Change: No
Wake on Clamshell Open: Yes
Current Power Source: Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim: Yes
Reduce Brightness: Yes
RestartAfterKernelPanic: 157680000
Hardware Configuration:
UPS Installed: No
AC Charger Information:
Connected: No
Charging: No
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That battery information looks decent, low number of cycles, capacity is about right for that vintage battery, condition is Nromal as it should be, and the voltage is right where you want it, 12 to 12.5 volts.
Have you worked through the knowledge base article on MagSafe connectors to see all is healthy on that end?
If that is fine, then it could be an issue in the charging circuitry in the MB. In which case it would be best to have an Apple tech at the genius bar run some diagnostics.
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