[Ti] Re: Must remove battery to charge: TiBook, 500MHz, OSX10.3.9 (Gavin Wright)

[heeday at mac.com]

on 2006/08/27 10:54 AM, titanium-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
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> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:10:38 +0100
> From: Gavin Wright <mail at gavinwright.net>
> Subject: [Ti] Must remove battery to charge: TiBook, 500MHz, OSX10.3.9
> To: titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
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> My MC-G4 BTI battery (www.batterytech.com) will charge about 7% then
> stop.
> But if I remove and re-seat the battery it charges again only to stop
> again.
> After apx 15 re-seat-ings it will charge all the way up to %100 and
> work as expected with about 3 hours charge.
> I've tried resetting the PMU and updating the OS, but the fault seems
> to be with the new battery. BTI of course blames the system.
> 
> Any similar experiences or advice?

Dear Gavin, 

I have the same problem (I don't remember if I posted to the list, though).

When I contacted BTI, I was suggested to contact BTI's Japanese distributor.
They replaced the battery once (April 2004) and said they would replace
again if the problem reoccured within the battery's 1 year warranty. The
problem did happen again (I vaguely recall the replacement initially did
seem to fix the problem), but I forgetfully let the warranty expire.

This was with a 400MHz TiBook and happened running both OS 9.2.x and OS X
(10.3.x). The battery currently lives in the same TiBook which now is
seldomly used untethered.

Just in case, I popped the MC-G4 into a 1GHz TiBook. It doesn't seem to
charge unless I pop it out and back in, so it's the same problem...

If you do contact BTI next time, can you ask if they use Sony cells that
have to be recalled?
-- 
Heeday at mac.com