shut down instead of sleeping

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
as i'm completely new to X i'm just wondering

if it is normal, that my powerbook shuts down

instead of falling asleep, when the battery

gets empty. as far as i can remember my

tibook with os9, it just fell asleep?

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    neutrino23neutrino23 Posts: 1,574member
    I don't think it is normal. Perhaps the battery charge is dropping so fast at that point it causes a crash before it can sleep? Do you not get the warning messages that the system is about to sleep because the battery is low? If this is in warranty I'd call Apple and see what they can offer you. Do you get reasonable battery life?
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    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    i dont have a powerbook. but it makes sense to me for it to turn off if the battery power is gone. what would keep it going? maybe i misunderstand the questoin though.
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    neutrino23neutrino23 Posts: 1,574member
    I have had several power books. The last is a Pismo 500. I don't usually get into this situation but as I recall they usually force the system to sleep when battery power is very low. In this condition you have an opportunity to plug in power. If you had any open documents with unsaved changes this saves your data. If the system suddenly shut down you might not have enough power to save all the documents before the battery failed.
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    arnearne Posts: 29member
    quite interessting. it only happens when

    i'm listening to music from itunes.



    when i'm working normal, there is the

    warning, the book falls asleep.. as it should be.
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    neutrino23neutrino23 Posts: 1,574member
    Hmmm. Not something I like to experiment with. However, it may be that anything that prevents sleeping also prevents this emergency sleep. Downloading a file or recording sounds also prevents sleeping.
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