Re: Battery not charging

Give it a restart and see how goes with iMovie again. May be fine after that. Or an SMC can still help as well. (perhaps was just "overheating/overworking" slightly.) Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: Web: **For everyt

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Thanks Daniel. Option click shows condition normal. Fan was running when battery was not charging. Fan is not running now but iMovie reports "unable to prepare project for publishing because a error occurred (-49). Battery is now charging. On 10/12/2012, at 11:19 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > Hi M

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Hi Michael iMovie shouldn't have an effect on the battery. If you Option click on the battery icon in the menu bar, what extra info does it say there. (It should say something like "Condition:Normal".). If it says "Condition: Service Battery", then it can mean there is a problem with a battery.

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Thanks Ronni, clear now. Pete. On 27/08/2012, at 8:25 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Pete, > > A charge cycle means using ALL of the battery’s power, but that doesn’t > necessarily mean a single charge. > > For instance, you could use your notebook for an hour or more one day, using > half i

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Hi Pete, A charge cycle means using ALL of the battery’s power, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a single charge. For instance, you could use your notebook for an hour or more one day, using half its power, and then recharge it fully. If you did the same thing the next day, it would count as

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It's a great little app the coconut one. Just checked MacBook belonging to SWMBO, it's done 453 cycles and still performs well. Min 2 hours from unhooking off power. Just a question, is a "cycle" counted whenever it drops below 100%? So if it goes 100% down to say 95% then back to 100%, does t

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Hi Yvonne, You should still have battery cycles to go, normally your model MBP should get 300+ cycles. Apple guarantee the battery to 300 cycles. Did you reset the SMC as I mentioned previously? I would get the battery 'serviced' at an Ap

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> Battery Load cycles...143 > MacBookPro3,1.yes Thinking on it this used to belong to my friend/business partner and he's a teacher and used it on battery a lot so I'm betting on it being the battery and will get a new one. Everything else is working perfectly. If a new battery doesn

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Hi Yvonne, What are the Battery Load cycles? What is your Mac Model: ? MacBookPro3,1 ? If your MacBook Pro is a 2007 MacBookPro3,1 the Maximum Cycle Count is 300 Cheers, Ronni On 27/08/2012, at 5:52 PM, wyv...@iinet.net.au wrote: > Thanks for that Ronni. > > I'm not the most tech savvy but I

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Thanks for that Ronni. I'm not the most tech savvy but I think this says I need a new battery current charge 165mAh Max charge 385mAh current capacity385mAh design capacity 5600mAh age 57 months Yvonne On 27/08/2012, at 3:05 PM, Ronda Bro

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Hi Yvonne, Download CoconutBattery and check the cycle count. The “Service Battery” alert in almost every case means the battery needs to be replaced with a new one. In some circumstances though, if the battery still works fine but Mac OS X is re

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On 12/08/2009, at 8:16 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 11/08/2009, at 5:45 PM, David Paul wrote: Hi Today my MacBook pro 15" unibody late 2008 running MacOS10.5.7 decided to stop charging the battery (only 20% charge). Computer works when plugged into AC but green light stays on all t

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thanks for the offer - will see how it goes with my other external power supply On 12/08/2009, at 9:43 AM, Craig Bruce wrote: If you've done the power management and its still doing it then i'd get the battery tested, we are happy to do it here or anywhere else that does service :) -

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If you've done the power management and its still doing it then i'd get the battery tested, we are happy to do it here or anywhere else that does service :) -- Craig Bruce Director M 0403 040 088 P 08 9367 4691 F 08 9367 4692 E craig.br...@maxstyle.com.au W http://www.maxstyle.com.au

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On 11/08/2009, at 5:45 PM, David Paul wrote: Hi Today my MacBook pro 15" unibody late 2008 running MacOS10.5.7 decided to stop charging the battery (only 20% charge). Computer works when plugged into AC but green light stays on all the time on the plug and not charging appears in the m

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Hi David, LOL - I am funnily enough. But the saga continues. I took my faithful little machine to a different service centre. After describing the problem and it being "fixed" - TWICE with the promises that it was tested while running I am taking it back to the very slow service centre. While

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Aurora, I have been through 3 yoyos. Is yours the one with the thin mains cord or the thicker one? The thin one cracks at the yoyo-plug end and arcs there, frying the wire. That's what happened with mine. I got two replacement cords (eventually!) and the third one I cut open, resoldered and

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tmharding wrote: Hi, Something strange has happened to my g3 powerbook. My yoyo powersupply stopped working tonight and when I got my spare out (I have now managed to go through 2 bricks and 2 yoyos) I noticed that the battery wasn't charging. No problem - fast forward an hour an it still

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Hi, I had these problems with the bricks. The two bricks ended up in 3 parts instead of 2 and I replaced an extra in the product recall. I also had the soundcard replaced when the solder on the powerport went due to the jiggling required. The yoyo's have been going great though. My last one la

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This is a curious issue and I wish I had an answer for you but only more "weirdness"- I have on my desk two "dead" YoYo power supplies from two G3 powerbooks. None of my users have had issues with these before Friday so I've never had a close look at one until Friday. Both YoYo units were stone

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Hi, I have tried this without joy :( Any other suggestions? If not can anyone recommend a good apple service centre? Aurora --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Pennefather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try resetting the power manager. I can't recall how to do this but you will > find instruction

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Try resetting the power manager. I can't recall how to do this but you will find instructions in the Apple Knowledge Base article ID 14449. I'll try sending it to you. Cheers Greg on 29/6/03 10:02 PM, tmharding at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Something strange has happened to my g3 powe