[iBook] calibrating my battery

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Jul 6, 2006, at 10:17 AM, ibooklist2 at matthurst.fastmail.fm wrote:

> I've had my G4 iBook about 18 months from new, and the battery life is
> tailing off a bit. Nothing massive, just not the four and a half hours
> or so I got at first, more like nearly three.
>
> Thing is, I didn't do the battery life calibration thing when it was
> new, so I don't know if the meter on the menu bar is accurate (and
> presumably, neither does the iBook. I could have hours left and it  
> shuts
> me down...)
>
> Is there any way of recalibrating it now?

Change the battery completely. Let the battery run out - completely,  
until the iBook shuts off itself. Then charge it completely. That'll  
do it.


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