Help! My battery is down to 13% Health after just 60 Cycles. My MacBook Pro is 10 months old now. This isn't normal, is it? I only get 20minutes of battery life now. What can I do? I've tried calibrating my battery several times and it doesn't seem to be working! Soon my laptop will become a permanent desktop!
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Battery Health 13% after 60 Cycles!!
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NO its not.Try to calibrate your battery.If it wont help call apple and they will replace it for you.
I also have this situation, but not as bad. For 13 months i've had 95% or higher battery life, but last week i jumped down to 60%, and i only have 75 cycles on the battery. I don't get why the battery would just jump down like this. Also for me calibration doesn't work.
also having the same problem, had this mbp for 5 months and there 30 cycles on the battery and its down to 75% health just caliberated it.
I would not fully agree. Sometimes it works. I helped me. My battery life was down to 74% and after calibration jumped back to 96%.
Anyway Apple will exchange it without any problems. At least they did it for me
Nice!!!
I bought an extra battery with my MBP, and I switch them back and forth about every 3 - 5 full cycles. I have a 1st gen MBP, got it in June 2006, and each battery currently has I think between 32 - 38 cycles on it, and each is still at 100% health. Guess I'm lucky!
Try this link which was in another thread and i used to get a new battery
http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate/
http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate/
Please read the guide. The point of calibration is to make sure your meter is giving an accurate reading. That's why it changed -- it was inaccurate before you calibrated. That does not imply that you're getting something you didn't get beforehand.