Swollen battery

[VictorTango777]

Thanks for the update.
Was it difficult to get the battery out? One tech told get a narrow wall scraper, wet the scraper with alcohol, and slowly pry away the battery from the case by moving from one small area to another small area.

Alcohol only dries up adhesive but does not make it any easier to remove. Petroleum based products such as Goo Gone work better at dissolving adhesives, making cleanup easier.

I just got my 2015 mbp battery replaced by Apple for free.

I was told that always on charge is one of the reason for swollen battery. Your battery life is 4+ years and cycle count is low.

Isn't that what all those fancy power management chips in modern mobile devices are for, so people don't have to worry about when to unplug a charger?

 

[iMacDragon]

Alcohol only dries up adhesive but does not make it any easier to remove. Petroleum based products such as Goo Gone work better at dissolving adhesives, making cleanup easier.



Isn't that what all those fancy power management chips in modern mobile devices are for, so people don't have to worry about when to unplug a charger?

I'm not aware of any laptop style power management that automatically discharges/recharges batteries, which is what they occasionally need, because if such a thing existed, it would inevitably eventually do it so that it was half discharged just when you wanted full battery.

 

[nerowolfe19]

For reasons unrelated to battery life (wanted to hog power adapter wattage and use battery as supplementary source while overclocking the dGPU to maximize power draw) I used to trick my macbook into not charging the battery by covering the middle 3 pins of the magsafe cable with a cut piece of 3M post-it. It'd show "power adapter" as the power source and "not charging" as battery condition (and yes the battery did discharge during intense workloads). Had the battery for about 6 years and 800+ cycles without problems.

 

[ajcgn]

I just got my 2015 mbp battery replaced by Apple for free.

I was told that always on charge is one of the reason for swollen battery. Your battery life is 4+ years and cycle count is low.

I guess I’ve been lucky with my 2011 MBP as it’s plugged in 99% of the time and I haven’t had any issues. I occasionally kick out the plug and don’t notice anything until after two or three hours.