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teerexx52

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My MacBook Air is doing something very strange with the battery. Well more than what's already been reported here. Seems that it loses some charge while sleeping. I believe that has already been written about. But the strange thing is that when it reaches exactly 95% and is connected to the charger. The charger is green but the battery display in the menu bar says "Not Charging" Hmmmm. This only seems to happen at exactly 95%. If I disconnect the charger or reboot it still says the same. On my MacBook pro this never happens. It always says "charged" until it goes below 95% and then says "charging" with however much time left. But never "not charging". So if I take it off power adapter and use it until 94% remaining then reconnect the power adapter then it goes into charging mode. Anyone else seen this?
 

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Weird...

Does Coconut Battery offer any insight? Not sure if the level of detail it gets to would be at all useful in this case....
 

teerexx52

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May 1, 2005
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Weird...

Does Coconut Battery offer any insight? Not sure if the level of detail it gets to would be at all useful in this case....

I have istat installed. It says battery health is either 99 or 100%. Battery seems ok as far as holding a charge.. Just that weird behavior.
 

teerexx52

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May 1, 2005
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That is weird. Hopefully someone else will be able to shed some ligjht on this for you...

I called apple and they ran me through power management reset. Before we started he told me to remove the battery. I told him on a MacBook Air you can't remove the battery. hmmmmm:) We'll see if this helps
 
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