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Sep 17, 2008
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Hi,

Can anyone tell me how does the battery cycle work?
I mean, yesterday my MBPshowed me 5 cycles after beeing charged and then at 80% the counter moved to 6 cycles. The same day I plugged in my MBP to the charger at 1% (it said 6 cycles), it charged and today it showed 7 cycles, thats fine, but then the charge got down to 80% and the cycle counter moved to 8 cycles without me charging the machine. Isn't it suppose to get down back to 1%(the point at which I started charging it last time) befor moving onto the next cycle? That means that the 7th cycles lasted only 80% instead of 100%.
Is my cycle counter broken or it there something I don't understand?
 
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