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I checked mine: they are bad
Authored by: mattmoss on Mar 13, '03 04:32:45PM

I get the battery instant discharge as well. At 100%, the menubar indicator gives me about 1:30. But it usually only makes it about 30 minutes (to around 60%) where it instantly discharges to 1% and goes to sleep. Verified looking at the pretty little lights on the battery.

I've had my dual-usb iBook 500 for 1.5 yrs now, so who knows how bad the battery really should be? This is what I get from the script at full charge, plugged in:

voltage=12389 flags=5/0x005 amperage=1200 capacity=1752 current=1746 [99.7%]

Strangely, one of the other symptoms I see is that every once in a while, even while the battery is at full charge and plugged in for hours, the light on the charger plug goes from green (ok) to orange (charging).



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I checked mine: they are bad
Authored by: everydayjoe on Mar 13, '03 05:55:21PM

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Strangely, one of the other symptoms I see is that every once in a while, even while the battery is at full charge and plugged in for hours, the light on the charger plug goes from green (ok) to orange (charging).
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I've noticed the same thing (green to orange to green) with mine - iBook 600Mhz, dual USB, about 1.5 years old. Battery performed better after running the 10.2.4 Combo Updater and then repairing permissions, but definitely not as well as before 10.2.4.

-jonathan



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