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Mac Bettery went from Awesome to Poor!

Chim3ra

Chim3ra

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just this last few days, my mac battery has gone from 6+ hours of battery capacity on full charge to now BARELY 2 hours on full charge...

i have already tried to configure my battery (drain, leave for 5 hours, charge for a full cycle)

not sure what's going on... anyone encounter this problem...?

is there anything i can or should i try bringing it back to the apple store...?
 
Lets see your battery health print screen then. I cant tell you whats wrong with it unless i know 3 things:

1) Laptop model and date of purchase

2) Battery Cycles

3) Remaining Battery Capacity in mAh.
 
You can take it to the Genius Bar at the Apple store and they can run a diagnostic in minutes that will determine if it's a defective battery.
 
kastenbrust said:
Lets see your battery health print screen then. I cant tell you whats wrong with it unless i know 3 things:

1) Laptop model and date of purchase

2) Battery Cycles

3) Remaining Battery Capacity in mAh.
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1) Model is the 13.3" Aluminum MacBook, purchased around November of 2008

2) Battery Cycles count: 74 (Condition: Good)

3) Full charge capacity 3906
 
hacksaw-C87 said:
Download coconut battery and see if it gives you any clues as to your battery health.

The link is here:

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/index.html

If not then take it into the Apple store. You should get a fairly rapid replacement once they've figured out what's happened.
hacksaw
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downloaded coconutBattery:

Current Battery Capacity: 3906 mAh
Original Battery Capacity: 4100 mAh

Loadcycles: 74
Age of Mac: 4 months

is losing approximately 100 mAh make a difference of 6 hours to 2 hours?
 
i might try to swing by the apple store tonight, is there any chance of them replacing the battery?
 
Ok theres nothing wrong with the battery, its perfectly healthy, it sounds to me like you have another process starting with your Mac OS thats running in the background and drinking all your power, have the battery problems started since you installed some software? Its going to be some pretty hefty software, perhaps some photography import software?

Let us see a screenshot of your running processes, ordered by CPU intensity. Use Activity Monitor, found in:

Applications --> Utilities --> Activity Monitor
 
kastenbrust said:
Ok theres nothing wrong with the battery, its perfectly healthy, it sounds to me like you have another process starting with your Mac OS thats running in the background and drinking all your power, have the battery problems started since you installed some software? Its going to be some pretty hefty software, perhaps some photography import software?

Let us see a screenshot of your running processes, ordered by CPU intensity. Use Activity Monitor, found in:

Applications --> Utilities --> Activity Monitor
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lemme know if that's ordered the right way, thx for the help!
 
okay, so i "showed all applications" and found an application "PrintJobManager" that was taking up 99% of the cpu (not sure how that happened)

also, not i can't type in my finder now....wtf?
 
yeah, i ended the program, and the battery up to par!

thx everyone!!
 
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