[P1] crazy battery

[Thomas Riisbjerg]

On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 03:36 PM, matthew h wrote:

> My battery is acting all crazy like these days.  I have an iBook (500 
> Mhz, 384 RAM) running 10.2.1.  Before Jaguar I used to be able to 
> bring my laptop to work to use at my lunchbreak.  When I opened it up 
> (airport off, screen dimmed) the battery level would be at 92%--now 
> it's at 70%.  With my power settings at 'Longest Battery Life' I can 
> only squeeze out like twenty minutes when I used to get an hour.  
> Also, the Low Battery warning is popping up earlier and earlier--used 
> to be at 14%, a few weeks ago at 30%,  and last night it was at 70% 
> that I got the warning.  Is this Jaguar?  Is it my iBook?  Any 
> suggestions?

My six month old battery died in my iBook. Apparently, some iBook 
batteries just aren't quite right. It went from being able to run the 
ibook for five hours to just about 30 minutes within a week or so. A 
(long) call to Apple had them send me a new battery in exchange for the 
old. Funny thing is, it started right after I upgraded to Jaguar. 
Personally, I doubt there's any connection, but I've seen others (on 
the Apple Support boards) complain about their iBook batteries dying 
after Jaguar too.

Has your charger by any chance stopped glowing orange while charging? 
When the battery died, I notied that mine had. I got a new charger 
along with the battery just in case.

Cheers
Thomas