Old battery and inaccurate battery guage
My 3 year old Powerbook battery seems to be on its last legs.. I am only getting a little over an hours usage before it poops out. What bugs me though is that the battery gauge in the menu bar doesn't reflect this.. it tells me I am at something like 80% when my PB puts itself to sleep due to the battery being drained. I have 'calibrated' the battery, but that doesn't have any effect.
Is this just the way it works? I would have expected that the battery gauge would go down quicker, in sync with the battery, but it seems the gauge is out of sync with the charge left in the battery.
A second question - my battery info shows the full capacity and the remaining capacity to be pretty close - how come I am running out of juice?
Battery Installed: Yes
First low level warning: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 7540
Remaining Capacity (mAh): 7536
Amperage (mA): 0
Voltage (mV): 12296
Cycle Count: 408
Thanks for any advice for a battery know nothing..
What you're seeing is a lithium battery about to die. It's not unusual for the battery to work for awhile and then just suddenly lose power - so your battery gauge may be working correctly, it just can't predict when the battery will suddenly drop off
Apple says a properly maintained battery should retain 80% of it's capacity after 300 charge/discharge cycles. If you haven't read it already, Apple's article on battery maintenance is at http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
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Date/Time: 2011-11-19 11:29:02 +0000
OS Version: 10.5.8 (Build 9L31a)
Architecture: i386
Report Version: 4
Command: iPhoto
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Thread id: 7cfd2e8
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49 ??? [0x1a1cb]
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IPhone 3GS battery not showing low battery and then taking hours to charge
Okay so my battery today was showing that it had full power and gave me no indication that the battery was near dead (ie: saying I only had 20% power left), and then it suddenly died on me. I went and charged it in my car and it charged for over 5 hours and was only at about 90%. It's never done this before, it typically takes at most an hour to charge even from a completely dead battery, and the battery indicator has always showed what the actual power is at. The phone is still pretty new, I bought it in March or April. Any ideas what's causing this, or what I should do? Right now, it's showing me the battery has full life, but I have a battery check app that says it's only at 95%.
It is the nature of the beast. Mine does that too. The charger actually cycles off periodically if the phone is basically idle. If I want make sure I have the maximum possible charge in the phone, I disconnect the charger for several minutes (perhaps using it a bit) and then plug the charger back in. This tops off the battery. I have been able to go as long as three hours with the phone still indicating 100% using this technique. I have no way of knowing for sure, but I am confident this is perfectly normal.
Honestly, I think it is a side effect of being able to turn on the percent view battery indicator. My wife's 3G (non S) does the same thing, but you can't tell because you can't see the percent view. You don't know what you can't see. -
I will be playing some 3d games and it says the battery is 90% but I'll turn off and turn in back on it about 30 minutes and the battery is only 70%. Why is the reading so inaccurate? I understand that 3d games on high brightness will drain my battery quickly, but why doesn't it tell be how low it is to begin with? The other night it said it was around 35% and I turned it on in the morning and it was only 3%?
Sorry there are some typos above, but you should be able to figure out what I'm asking. Let me know if you have tha same problem, know how to fix it, or know if apple is aware of the problem and is adressing it in a future update.
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my iPhone is about 6 months old now and I would say I don't use it that much. Yet for the last month or so the battery life has been going down and today after having charged it to 100% this morning, it was at 5% at 4 pm this aft. help!!
Ok Fellas, let me give you a clue: Games, particularly those that make heavy use of graphics and sound are notoriously power hungry. In fact, when I was in the Navy many years ago, the folks working on the NTDS (Navy Tactical Data System) computers used a version of Space Invaders to load test the AN/UYK-43 computers.
I have also noticed that all of my laptops (I have a brand new Toshiba dual core, an older Toshiba single core, plus 2 Dell dual core machines) have significantly shorter battery life when I play Company of Heroes than when I am just reading e-mail or surfing the 'Net. I have also noticed the same behavior when I play games on my 4th gen Touch and my iPhone 4.
The fact is, iOS 5 did make some major improvements as well as adding some nice functionality like iMessage, wireless synch, and such, but the down side is that depending on how you use the device battery life can be shorter that what you may have experienced with pervious versions of iOS. Its just the nature of the beast...
We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming.....
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My computer is 3 1/2 months old and my battery is dying really fast what can I do to increase the battery life?
Hi,
I asssume it's a laptop!
1st I would run it right down & then do a full recharge, then run it down again + a full recharge..
Check that you do not have any apps running in the background, reset PRAM..
When all's done I usually run a movie & time how long the battery lasts..if after that & no joy call Apple Help.. -
Old battery in MBP is testing bad so I purchased a new one. When I cycle the battery as soon as it totally drains down it will now not take a charge or even boot my computer with the cord plugged in. I have tried many many dif things to get it to run, so far nothing has worked. I put in the old battery and it boots right up.
wildtechy,
This is the iMac section of Apple Support Communities. You might get a reply faster if you ask your question in the MacBook Pro section.
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should i replace the battery if my laptop is 3 years old and wont start up or recieve power ... took it to apple and the guy readjusted my battery and it was fine for two days and same thing happened? thinking of buying a new battery
I am bemused and have to ask how one "readjusts" a battery?
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Ive had my 13 inch macbook pro for less than 30 days and the battery health has gone down to 92% and the computer itself is so slow...i paid $50.00 for an OLD windows computer with 512 mb of ram and it is much faster..is this normal for mac?? Also, apple says there is nothing they can/wil do even though i got the apple care....i mean really? $50.00 for 2002 computer with windows XP and 512mb of ram and a single core processor......faster and more usable than $1400.00 computer with 4gb of ram and dual core processor.....***???
Willtc92 wrote:
Ive had my 13 inch macbook pro for less than 30 days and the battery health has gone down to 92% and the computer itself is so slow...i paid $50.00 for an OLD windows computer with 512 mb of ram and it is much faster..is this normal for mac??
obviously not.
Ive had my 13 inch macbook pro for less than 30 days and the battery health has gone down to 92% and the computer itself is so slow...
Give examples of how it is slow. -
I have an old mac book, and the battery is not charging.
I have an old mac book, and the battery is not charging.
I got a brand new replacement battery in the apple store yesterday, but it is still not charging. What do I do?Have you reset the SMC?
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i have an older ipod which is about 10 years old now and i am thinking of bouying a new one as the battery only lasts 1 hour, what i would like to know is if it is possible to transfer content from the old ipod to a new one or can they be transferred from itunes on the computer to a new ipod?
Welcome to Apple Communities
You have the songs in iTunes, so you have to connect the new one and sync it
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