iBook battery 56 % charge drops to 0 %
While using the iBook on battery and surfing with airport, all seemed to work normal untill 56% yesterday. Suddenly the ibook went to forced sleep, without notifying me first. Nothing woke it up, except the power.. and plugged to it, to my surprise I saw it showed 0 % of charge!! How can 56 % drop suddenly to 0 % ??? And after less than 1,5 hours of use?? The battery is not old, it has to last 4-5 hours, not 1.
It happened again today. Surfing using the battery, once the battery charge was in 56% it went to sleep, and ASAP plugged to the power, it showed again 0 % !!!
Any suggestions? Could it be the 10.2.4 battery killing effect? Is this happening to anyone else? I did a clean install of 10.2 about 10 days ago and would have wanted to go only to 10.2.3 but there were no separate installs on Apple's site so I had to go to 10.2.4 ... a battery issue or system? I don't believe my battery to be faulty. And I remember having seen the battery to e.g. 20 % or under -after this last clean install- that so why is this happenening suddenly? Anyone else has the same issue?
It happened again today. Surfing using the battery, once the battery charge was in 56% it went to sleep, and ASAP plugged to the power, it showed again 0 % !!!
Any suggestions? Could it be the 10.2.4 battery killing effect? Is this happening to anyone else? I did a clean install of 10.2 about 10 days ago and would have wanted to go only to 10.2.3 but there were no separate installs on Apple's site so I had to go to 10.2.4 ... a battery issue or system? I don't believe my battery to be faulty. And I remember having seen the battery to e.g. 20 % or under -after this last clean install- that so why is this happenening suddenly? Anyone else has the same issue?
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i think it's the software. 30% or more to INSTANT OFF no warning no nothing.
I found THIS - scary - there are people who get 100 to 0 % in 14 minutes!
Full charge:
did you talk to apple yet?
did you reset the power manager?
FSCK?
repair permissions?
you are running 10.2.4 right?
your links to Mac OS X don't work...
what forum is it in and maybe I can navigate to it...
you are Giaguara, right?
The battery keeps doing that, 56-60 % goes to forced sleep, then at 40+ % tells it's 100 % I'll go to Oakbrook or those other Apple stores that are close to here still this week... meanwhile, I keep the charge monitor app running. Now it looks like this = systematic bahaviour.
Paul, the thing is in here in those attachments.
man, that's terrible.
10.2.4 pretty much sucks. :P
Oh, and we may even get a 10.2.6 before Panther!