Ok, I'm a bit paranoid about battery charges.

Ok, I'm a bit paranoid, but I need you to help me remain calm. On my system report, it says I already used 5 cycle counts. I only bought this new macbook 2011 two days ago. How did I unintenionally used so much and how do I preserve the cycle counts?

lw1575 wrote:
Ok, I'm a bit paranoid, but I need you to help me remain calm.
Not sure I'll manage, but I'll try.
How did I unintenionally used so much and how do I preserve the cycle counts?
You can't "preserve" cycle counts. They will be increasing, in whatever way you use your Air. If you charge a battery from 0% to 100% that's 1 cycle count. If you charge your battery from 30% to 80% that's half a cycle count, and so on. It just keep accumulating.
Whether the numbers are reported incorrectly, as the previous poster suggests, I don't know. What I do know, owning 4 MacBooks overe here, is that the number of cycle counts doesn't say too much about your potential battery life.
What counts is battery health, which is defined as the current capacity when fully charged versus manufactured capacity. In System Report terms this is "Charge Remaining" divided by "Full Charge Capacity" when the battery is fully charged. And depending on the way you use your Air this goes down, and occassionally might even go slightly up. Note that I haven't seen this on my Air, but I did so on my MacBook Pro and MacBook.
The following Apple Support article will give you some insight: http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
Note that whatever people say: for Macs with non-removable batteries there's no need to "recalibrate" your battery periodically, as was the case for removable batteries. This is outlined in: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1490.
On my system report, it says I already used 5 cycle counts.
Not too difficult: I can't recall the average battery life of an Air specified by Apple but I guess it is 5-7 hours. So in 48 hours I can easily fully discharge and charge the battery 5 times, which gives me 5 cycle counts....
But that doesn't matter: what indicates the state of your battery is battery health, not cycle counts.
There a quite a few tools to track battery status. I personally use iStat Menus Pro. It's paid, but gives also a lot of info on other stuff like memory usage, CPU usage and temperatures. There are many other tools around as well.
Hope this helps to relax you a bit more
Eric

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I have many Apple products and never worry about the battery life or anything else's life at all and it is always completely fine.
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I never ever do anything whatsoever to look after my battery health.
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Thanks for posting on the Dell Community Forum.
Without knowing the age of your computer and battery, it's difficult to say what might be causing this issue. Batteries normally last about a year to a year and a half, and are warranted for 1 year, so if your computer is less than that, then after troubleshooting with the Tech Support dept, they may opt to replace it. If it is past that time, then try running your computer plugged into the a/c adapter with the battery removed. You can operate your computer in that manner while you research what you are going to do about a new battery.
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The 13” MBA has an SD RAM slot and there are several different products that let you put a card in that doesn’t stick out like a normal SD card would. I have a 64GB card that I keep a selection of music, video, and photos. There are also mini USB cards that have just a little nob sticking out when inserted into the computer that can provide additional space.
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Thanks in advance

charging cycles mean NOTHING.
what matters is short term ABUSE, not charging cycles.
1. did you often drain the battery very low?
2. did you often /always have your macbook on charge,......or did you often / always BOTH have your macbook on charge AND in sleep mode?
3. did you often /always play realistic heavy graphics games ON battery on your notebook?
1 or 2 and 3 are harsh on the battery chemistry and therefore its longevity
all batteries are consumables meant to replaced either in their own "due time" or early due to abuse / misuse.
Proper understanding of a battery charge cycle
A charge cycle means using all of the battery’s power, whether that is at once, or over several shorter battery discharges and recharges.
Two examples for clarification:
As a first example, where one fully charged battery is discharged down to 10%, then fully recharged, then using 10% of that full charge, this counts as 1 cycle since the total of both discharges is 100% of a full charge of use.
In the second example, where one fully charged battery is discharged down to 40%, then fully recharged, then using 40% of that full charge, this also counts as 1 cycle since the total of both discharges is 100% of a full charge of use.
While both examples are that of a single charge cycle, the first example is more aggressive against the lithium battery chemistry than is the second example. In short, collective overall gentle shallow or mid-range draining of your lithium battery is a better use condition than is the first example of deep-draining of the battery. While both are quantitatively identical as a single charging cycle, they are wholly different qualitatively on the battery chemistry, which is directly related to its ultimate longevity and health.
In short, it is the near and mid-term life of the battery as relates to its proper care (or lack thereof) that is to be looked after.
Priorities in order of decreasing importance for battery care are:
1. Avoiding deep discharges of the battery.
2. Avoiding having your battery constantly on charge or on charge and in sleep mode.
3. When playing graphics intense games, use your notebook plugged in when possible.
4. Reduction of battery cycles by plugging into power when on the go, or when accessible.
A person who has, for example, 300 charge cycles on their battery and is recharging at say 40% remaining of a 100% charge has a better battery condition state than, say, another person who has 300 charge cycles on their battery and is recharging at say 10-15% remaining on a 100% charge. DoD (depth of discharge) is vitally important on the wear and tear on your Macbook’s battery, much more so than is the counting of charge cycles. There is no set “mile” or wear from a charge cycle in specific. Frequent high depth of discharge rates (draining the battery very low) on a Lithium battery will greatly hasten the lowering of maximum battery capacity.
Understand that a charge cycle is a general parameter of use, but is not directly related to the short-term or mid-term abuse of the battery, which can rapidly hasten a shorter lifespan, regardless of what the actual cycle count on the battery indicates.
Proper considerations for near-term care of the battery is of utmost importance. Abuse of the battery is entirely avoidable, long-term eventual old age deterioration of the battery is entirely unavoidable.
Apple’s adaptive charging system mitigates much potential for accidental battery misuse or abuse; however it is still readily possible to abuse the battery and thereby affect battery health.
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Contrary to popular myths about notebook batteries, there is protection circuitry in your Macbook and therefore you cannot ‘overcharge’ your notebook when plugged in and already fully charged.
However if you do not plan on using your notebook for several hours, turn it off (plugged in or otherwise), since you do not want your Macbook ‘both always plugged in and in sleep mode’.
Do not perform “battery calibration” on your current Macbook. There is no calibration of current Apple portable Macbooks with built-in batteries.
A lot of battery experts call the use of Lithium-Ion cells the "80% Rule", meaning use 80% of the full charge or so, then recharge them for longer overall life. The main quantified damage done in the use of Lithium Ion batteries are instances where the internal notebook battery is “often drained very low”, this is bad general use of your notebook battery.
All batteries in any device are a consumable meant to be replaced eventually after much time, even under perfect use conditions.
If the massive amount of data that exists on lithium batteries were to be condensed into a simplex, helpful, and memorable bit of information it would be:
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2. Do not purposefully drain your battery very low (10% and less), and do not keep them charged often or always high (100%).
3. Lithium batteries do not like the following:
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B: Rapid discharges as referring to energy intensive gaming on battery on a frequent basis (in which case while gaming, if possible, do same on power rather than battery).
C: Constant inflation, as meaning always or most often on charge, and certainly not both in sleep mode and on charge always or often.
From Apple on batteries:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1446
"Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time."

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Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here are the best resources to go through when experiencing this issue.
Resolving issues
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Make sure that the connector is free from debris.
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Make sure that the outlet you're using works.
Make sure that the Apple USB cable and Apple USB power adapter work.
Plug the device in to power and let it charge for up to 30 minutes. If you don't have an Apple USB power adapter, try connecting to a computer's high-power USB 2.0 port (not a keyboard). The computer must be on.
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JSebastian wrote:
I assume you mean in your question, why on the standby database I am using three standby log locations (i.e. log_archive_dest_5, 6, and 7)?
If that is your question, my answer is that I just figured more than one location would be safer but I could be wrong about this. Can you tell me if only one location should be sufficient for the standby logs? The more I think of this, that is probably correct because I assume that Log Transport services will re-request the log from the Primary database if there is some kind of error at the standby location with the standby log. Is this correct?As simple configure as below. Why more multiple destinations for standby?
check notes Step by Step Guide on How to Create Logical Standby [ID 738643.1]
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LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1='LOCATION=/arch1/boston VALID_FOR=(ONLINE_LOGFILES,ALL_ROLES) DB_UNIQUE_NAME=boston'
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LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_3      Is ignored; LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_3 is valid only when boston is running in the standby role.      Directs archival of redo data received from the primary database to the local archived redo log files in /arch2/boston/.
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Source:-
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14239/create_ls.htm

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Message was edited by: trsohmers

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