[Ti] PB battery won't recharge

Ondra Soukup ondras at di.cz
Wed Nov 9 09:36:46 PST 2005


Sorry, forgot to say I did that many times, reseting PMU, PRAM,  
openfirmware.
Maybe dead chager with not enough energy (still original yoyo) or  
dead PMU in powerbook (the 400MHz one, so PMU as a add-on card, not  
soldered to logicboard)
On Nov 9, 2005, at 4:59 PM, John Griffin wrote:

> Before you give up on the battery entirely do a PMU and PRAM reset  
> and see if it will take a charge after that.
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
>
> jg
>
> On 9-Nov-05, at 8:54 AM, Ondra Soukup wrote:
>
>> Well, I'm having a battery issue  too.
>>
>> First the battery said like 30 minutes on 100% charge, 4 out of 4  
>> lights down on the battery , went to 0% and worked for 1-1,5 hours  
>> more on 0%
>> Doing that few times, I teached the battery's real capacity,  
>> however in September, the battery started to charge to 100%, says  
>> 12 minutes, BUT there is only one blinking light down on the  
>> battery out of 4. That means it is drained but battery indicator  
>> says 100%/12minutes. After those 12 minutes, the computer realy  
>> goes to sleep :/
>>
>> How to get battery to charge to full power ? To have 4 out of 4  
>> lights again.
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