Battery Not Charging - New Unibody

[MatthewStorm]

I have a late 2008 Unibody MacBook Pro 15" 2.8Ghz. My battery charge is at 95% and will no longer charge. The charger glows orange but the battery will not charge past 95%. WTF? Any ideas?

 

[jbrenn]

have you ever calibrated the battery?

 

[MatthewStorm]

If you mean charging it all the way up and then letting run down to sleep then yes I did that.

 

[Eddyisgreat]

Ask coconutbattery what your current charge level is. The OS may be reporting incorrectly.

 

[MatthewStorm]

I unplugged it for a bit. Restarted. Now it is at 88% according to CB and Finder. It seems to be charging really sloooow. No reason this should happen.

 

[iToaster]

The battery charges to 100%, but it may discharge gradually 95% or will stop anywhere after 95% if interrupted (by removing the power adapter). Also, lithium ion battery charge quickly to 80% and then trickle charge to 100%, this is why it's charging slowly... nothing you can do about that, it's how the batteries are.

 

[MatthewStorm]

Thanks, yes, I know. It's going slowly because I watched it. But I have never seen it dead stop at 95% before. It's now at 99% after Repairing Permissions and restarting and unplugging it and letting it run off battery for a bit. Thanks for the input.

 

[scottuf]

just last week my uni stopped charging, it took a reset of the smc to fix the problem.