[iBook] Re: iBook battery

[Don Distel]

I have the same problem with my powerbook. It used to be 20 - 25% and 
now it is at 40%. It gets to about 40% and it shuts down until I plug 
it in.  My powerbook is about 1.5 years old. Thanks, Don
On Friday, October 29, 2004, at 01:06 AM, Brandon M. Bost wrote:

> On 10/29/04 12:31 AM, "Barnard Madsen" <bmadsen at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I got my iBook dual USB used and had similar problems with the battery
>> (didn't hold a charge).  I bought a new battery and now I get nearly 5
>> hours per charge.  My IT guy at the office told me when you to install
>> a new battery (in your case, one that hasn't been used or charged), 
>> you
>> should charge it up to 100%, then use it and let it drain all the way
>> down before charging it to 100% and then draining it down.  This is
>> supposed to give it the capacity to hold a charge longer.  It seems to
>> have worked with my new battery.
>
> Has anybody had their battery percentage drop a pretty good bit and go
> immediately into sleep?  When I first got my iBook a year ago, they 
> put a
> brand new battery in it, and I didn't have any problems whatsoever.  
> Here
> recently, I've noticed that whenever the battery gets down to roughly 
> 25%,
> it automatically goes to 0 and puts my iBook to sleep, in which I have 
> to
> plug it in to get it back to going.  I've pressed the PMU reset button 
> and
> recallibrated the battery (as described above), yet it's still doing 
> it.
> Any suggestions?  Thanks!
>
> Brandon M. Bost
>
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