Hi Paul I've never managed to understand the battery cycle information, but for comparison I'm showing a capacity of 4705/6500 mAh, at 39 months with 506 loadcycles
I have a MBP 15" late 2009 (or as coconut calls it MacBookPro5,3) Alastair On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Paul Howard <p...@phoward.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I checked the battery status on my macbook pro last week and it seemed > fine (about 5% down on new). > > Last night I checked and coconutBattery was showing that it now only had > a capacity of about 400 mAh compared to the standard 6900 mAh of a new > battery. > > I tried resetting the pram and restarting. No change. > > So this morning I let the battery drain fully and left it unplugged for > about 6 hours to fully drain the battery. > > On restarting it just now coconutBattery is now showing that it has a > capacity of -1 mAh. So basically it won't hold a charge at all. > > The macbook is 21 months old and is showing as having 7 battery load > cycles. > > Is this likely to be a software issue or is my battery really dead. If it > is dead do I need to take it into an Apple store to get it replaced or > could an Apple authorised repair person do the job? > > Thanks, > > > > -- > *Paul Howard* > > web: phoward.com / phowardimages.co.uk / ispauldeadyet.com | > twitter: @phowardcom <http://twitter.com/phowardcom> / > @phowardimages<https://twitter.com/phowardimages> > > tel (UK): +44 (0)1293 738158 | mobile (UK): +44 (0)7903 505153 | > tel (US) : +1 251 243 0058 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- *Please think of the environment before you print this email.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
