Hi Nathaniel,
Nathaniel Griswold wrote:
I meant to clarify: I have had the battery for over a year and I’m not sure why the cycles reset to 5. I am puzzled by it.
is it an genuine (really in strict sense of the term) brand battery or a compatible replacement (even if they call it "genuine", always puzzles me). Since I keep alive a lot of vintage laptops and am the author of GNUstep's BatteryMonitor I share the experience that non-original battery can have their controllers do the wildest things. Usually sourced from China they have compatible controllers (well, I can imagine producing hundreds of different models, they must have compatible emulating chips).
I have seen incorrect cycle count. Sometimes I think they just miss to calculate partial cycles... so if you never do full cycles, the battery appears new. Otherwise it is just buggy or explainable for me.
Some batteries skimp on the design vs. last capacity too. Most often I have seen them to be about the same value forever. Or a too high design value is tricked and if you open the cell it is not corresponding.
Riccardo
