I aquired an older macbook with a battery that would not charge. MacOSX Leopard was installed on it. I couldn't find an up2date browser for it, so I decided to install ElementaryOS. I install it over Leopard and started anew. My battery arrived and I installed it. Unfortunately it wouldn't charge anymore than 40 to 60%. It would also suddenly shutdown at about 25% I typed sudo apt upgrade hopeing a driver would do the trick. I followed instructions for resetting the battery. I removed the battery and held the power button down for 5 seconds. All to no avail. I just can't gage the battery at all. Would it help if I reinstalled Leopard and dual booted. Maybe Leopard would get the calibration down. Any advise? Know anyone who could help? I don't really know how to install an OSX? Should I install a newer version than Leopard? My other computer to make a boot disk is an Ubuntu machine.
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Calibrating Battery on macbook a1181 5.2 running ElementaryOS Hera
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