Rick, Have you reset the PMU, Apple suggested that when I replaced my battery.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 It seemed to help with the amount of battery life that was showed. John On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:15 PM, b3 wrote: > The battery on my powerbook had not been holding its charge very > well, about two hours max. > in addition, it never reached the 100% charge state (staying at > about 85%), or had the green charging light come on. > > I called apple, and they sent out a new battery. > That one charged up fine yesterday, light went to green and > everything. > > today, it doesn't want to fully charge. > it has been pretty constant around the 88% percent mark. > i've been surfing the net and writing a paper, with the power > adapter plugged in. and it seems to be losing a charge slightly, as > it just dropped to 87% in the menu bar. > > it has been plugged in the entire time. > > any suggestions? > > i'm using a powerbook G4 12" 1.5 > with 10.4.6 (i updated today, hoping that might help, but no dice) > > Using Coconut Battery it shows that my battery capacity is still at > 100% but the charge is not. > and it seems to be *losing* a charge (very) slowly while plugged > in. (and yes there is power going to the machine because the amber > light is on and the menu bar says that it's charging, but is > constantly calculating the charge, never giving me an estimated > finish time) > > rick > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be April 25 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 25 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
