Battery Icon says: Service Battery

[IIIORIsDude]

Since Dec of 2012, I've had battery service popping up on my battery icon. Back then, I called apple care and they walked me through resetting the SMC, it resolved the problem but at least once a month, that warning shows up. It just did before I wrote this thread. I reset the SMC and now it's gone, should I be worried?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Depends on the age of the battery.
Download coconutBattery and make a screenshot and attach it to your next post.

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This should answer most, if not all, of your battery questions:
Apple Notebook Battery FAQ by GGJstudios
The F.A.Q. includes the following topics:

• BATTERY INFORMATION
• BATTERY LIFE FROM A CHARGE
• AC POWER
• CALIBRATION
• BATTERY LIFESPAN
• CHECKING STATUS AND HEALTH
• CHARGING
• WHAT IS A CYCLE?
• BATTERIES ARE NOT COVERED
• BULGING OR SWELLING BATTERY

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[Brian Y]

You need a new battery is what it's telling you. If it's

- under warranty
- significantly less than 1000 charge cycles

It'll be free. Otherwise you'll be looking at £100 ish.

 

[IIIORIsDude]

Depends on the age of the battery.
Download coconutBattery and make a screenshot and attach it to your next post.

______________________________________________________
This should answer most, if not all, of your battery questions:
Apple Notebook Battery FAQ by GGJstudios
The F.A.Q. includes the following topics:

• BATTERY INFORMATION
• BATTERY LIFE FROM A CHARGE
• AC POWER
• CALIBRATION
• BATTERY LIFESPAN
• CHECKING STATUS AND HEALTH
• CHARGING
• WHAT IS A CYCLE?
• BATTERIES ARE NOT COVERED
• BULGING OR SWELLING BATTERY

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Hope this helps!

 

[Erasmus]

Take it to an Apple genius, and be really nice. If you have Applecare, you should be able to get a new battery. If not, you might get one for free anyway if they like you.

 

[Brian Y]

Hope this helps!

If your machine is under warranty, you will get a free replacement battery 🙂

 

[jamesjingyi]

My 2006 BlackBook did that... I replaced the battery... 4 months later it said the same thing.... 🙁 I took it back and they gave me a new battery... 2 weeks later the battery swelled and broke the keyboard on top and broke the bottom cover (how I didn't notice, idk but haha 😀 ). They gave me a new bottom and a new battery... Then it happened again... Then they gave me a new White MacBook Unibody... And let me keep the BlackBook... Win 🙂 Now I'm back on the original battery and now the BlackBook lives on the desk and the White one was sold for £560 🙂

Pretty good for £100 (price of the new battery)... But then probably cost me £200 in petrol getting there...