"Service Battery" notifications under battery icon in menu bar.

There have been only 182 charge cycles till now. I have kept my MacBook for recalibration. Its under the Apple Care plan. Is it eligible for a replacement?
Neerav

I tried SMC reset but didn't help. 300 charge cycles are still not over. I hope its covered under the warranty.
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Hello kpoehlmann,
Head to *System Preferences -> Energy Saver*. Then click on the "Show Options" button and then the Options tab. Lastly, make sure there is a tick mark next to "Show battery status in the icon bar."
Hope this helps.
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Hi, Dale —
Seems as if there've been a lot of folks lately who've encountered problems with SystemUIServer — the process that manages the right-hand side of the menu bar.
Troubleshooting this may require several rounds of interacting. For now, try these:
(1) Delete the preferences file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist, restart, and reset as required in System Preferences
(2) Disable all "system enhancers" — including especially any 3rd-party Menu Extras — that you may have installed. Some of these may show up in System Preferences »» Other. In particular, disable or uninstall Application Enhancer (APE) if it's there.
Please post back to share your progress, and we'll take it from there
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btw - my friend has gone away, so can't ask him!

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M

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I'm not sure what to even try. I've tried removing it from the bar and adding it back with no luck.
This seems to have happened since the latest Software Update for 10.6.5. I have Build 10H574.
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Everytime I go into preferences and check show battery status for some reason when I reboot the icon in the menu bar disappears.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Any solutions?
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Not sure if this will work or not, but it's worth a try. Go into Users>yourusername>Library>Preferences and move the com.apple.menuextra.battery.plist file to your desktop, or somewhere you can get to it if you need to put it back. Don't copy, the purpose is to take it out of that Preferences folder. Now, open up system preferences, check the display in menu bar option, restart, and hope for the best.
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After upgrading to 10.5.5 I experienced sudden loss of performance with both of my batteries.
Overnight the battery yielded only 45 min, and the recharge time was usually about 40 min as well.
As a result of frustration, I decided to crack open the case of 1 battery and connect a 12V 20W bulb to fully discharge the battery.
Possibly as a result of the deep discharge, the battery took 6 hrs to recharge, and now yields approx 3-4 hrs of power.
HERE IS THE PROBLEM. The battery status in the menu bar does not seem to reflect the battery's newly found performance.
It keeps says "40 min." left, and when it runs out of minutes, it displays: "Calculating ... remaining"
The same odd behaviour occurs when charging the battery. It says: "35 min" to full charge, and when it runs out of minutes it displays: "Battery finishing charging"
MOREOVER, yesterday, the low level power indicator appeared, but the computer kept working for another 1.5 hrs before going to sleep.
Finally the System profiler shows this information
Battery Information:
Battery Installed: Yes
First low level warning: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 1661
Remaining Capacity (mAh): 1361
Amperage (mA): -1203
Voltage (mV): 11441
Cycle Count: 71
After the deep discharge, the Full Charge capacity jumped form 640 to 1661.
That's good, isn't it?
But how can I reset the battery status in the menu bar to reflect the actual performance of the
battery? Or did the deep discharge damage something?
Regards

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these icons can't be loaded on my loggin in.
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I'm having an issue with OS X 10.8.2 on my 15" (not Retina) Macbook Pro (late 2011, Core i7 2.4 GHz w/ 16GB RAM and SSD);
The majority of system icons in the menu bar "extras" area (that is, to the right near the date/time in the menu bar) are blank. The area where the icon would be located is responsive to clicks, and drops a menu item down upon click, but the icons themselves are invisible. The same goes for Spotlight which has a spot for it's icon and responds to the hotkey of Apple + Spacebar, but the icon itself is invisible. The only icons that are visible are third party programs that run and place themselves there such as Little Snitch, and the battery low ("red" battery) indicator icon; other battery icons are invisible.
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