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10.4: View battery cycle count in System Profiler
Authored by: n1mie on Jun 24, '05 04:21:37PM

This is all well and good. I noticed, however, that mine lists a piece of information that I would like to change: First Low Level Warning is NO. This explains in part why the OS reports my capacity off and never warns me when it gets low (just suddenly shuts off at 84% life remaining).

Any ideas on how to change a parameter (like the NO to YES)?

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10.4: View battery cycle count in System Profiler
Authored by: ebernet on Jun 24, '05 05:12:13PM

I think that means that the low level warning has not been issued yet in this power cycle, so you would have to have just a couple of minutes left on your battery to see something different.



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First Low Level Warning = "NO"
Authored by: rajoftherings on Jun 24, '05 05:35:25PM

I noticed this as well. The feature that sets off the low level alarm seems to have been broken around 10.3.8 if I recall correctly. I was hoping that it would be fixed in Tiger, but not so far.

I would also be interested in knowing how to turn the low level warning back on -- it's not through the Energy Saver pref panel....

Any help would be much appreciated!



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First Low Level Warning = "NO"
Authored by: hamarkus on Jun 25, '05 01:21:26AM

As usual, what might be broken or not broken in such hardware related software functionality depends on which hardware you have: with my TiBook 1 Ghz (cycle count 141), I still get the low battery warning, even under 10.3.9.



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10.4: View battery cycle count in System Profiler
Authored by: zane on Jun 24, '05 06:43:51PM

Ditto. I get no battery low-level warning at all anymore (I used to), just a sudden sleep cycle (or Shutdown, in some cases).

Then again, my battery shows around 10hrs remaining on a full charge and dies at around 8.5-9hrs indicated remaining... which is a little screwy. ;)

I guess I'm due for a new battery (and it's only had 208 cycles according to System Profiler)



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10.4: View battery cycle count in System Profiler
Authored by: rpenzenik on Jul 07, '05 09:12:59PM

That's odd. My battery also shows 208 cycles. What are the chances of that happening. Does anybody else show 208?



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10.4: View battery cycle count in System Profiler
Authored by: blizz1975 on Jun 25, '05 04:41:31PM

I had the same problem with a Titanium Powerbook. I took it to the Apple Store and they replaced the battery. My Aluminum Power Book has the same setting as yours set to no and I still get the warning. If your machine is less than a year old you can probably get a new battery free of charge. Even with AppleCare they don't like to replace batteries after a year, it seems. In fact my battery has been losing capacity and they don't want to replace it. Your problem is probably with the chip on the battery not communicating properly to the Power Manager and that should get a replacement. Good Luck ;-)



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