[Ti] Overly-modest TiBook battery

[Dave Friesen]

Throw away the original battery. It's old and used up. If you really 
need three batteries go buy another new one.

Or download something like XBattery and see if it can track the 
battery's function.

On Feb 8, 2004, at 8:06 AM, Bob Jacobsen wrote:

> I have a TiBook 400MHz and three batteries.  The original battery 
> recently developed a problem with its idea of how much charge it 
> contains.  When charged, it shows 100%.  That drops to zero in about 
> 20 minutes, giving the usual low-battery warning, etc.  But I can run 
> at 0% for an hour or more!
>
> It seems that the battery is holding energy just fine, but that the 
> estimation  of how much is left is really off.
>
> I'd like to get this fixed because once the battery is showing zero, 
> the computer won't wake from sleep.
>
> The other two batteries, which are significantly younger, are working 
> fine.
>
> I've tried Apple's recommendation for "recalibrating" the battery by 
> letting it run down until the computer goes to sleep automatically. (I 
> acutally do this pretty often).  That seems to have no effect.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas for resetting the self-esteem of this 
> battery?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bob
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> Bob Jacobsen (Bob_Jacobsen at lbl.gov, 510-486-7355, fax 510-495-2957)
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