Battery Charging..

sroachsroach
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Is it normal for my battery to never get charged past 99%. I noticed a screen shot from another user and they had Charged in their battery meter.

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by sroach

    Is it normal for my battery to never get charged past 99%. I noticed a screen shot from another user and they had Charged in their battery meter.



    Either reset your PMU (Power Managment thingy) if calibrating your battery doesn't work.



    Use your machine until the machine goes to sleep by itself from lack of battery and then charge it.
  • Reply 2 of 4
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    the battery doesn't charge past 95%

    but if it is ever under that amount it should charge all the way to 100%



    IE if your battery is at 96% it will not charge until it drops below 95%
  • Reply 3 of 4
    noleli2noleli2 Posts: 129member
    What Paul said is always true, but it seems to manifest itself more when it's a replacement battery. There's a kbase article about this somewhere....
  • Reply 4 of 4
    k squaredk squared Posts: 608member
    And it depends on which PB you have. On my 400 Ti the battery management isn't as smart as on the Al's.
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