> > I don't understand what is occuring. Mine goes for about 3h30-4h00, with
> > low backlight. Maybe your battery is badly calibrated
>
> Is there a way to re-calibrate the battery then? FWIW, the battery
> usage seemed just fine under OSX. The testing I did was with the
> backlight on the lowes
On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 03:52, Cedric Pradalier wrote:
> According to Adam Israel, on Sun, 09 May 2004 18:55:53 -0500,
> >I've got Debian sid installed on my iBook (G3, 800Mhz).
> >
> >Maybe I'm misunderstanding how power management works on the PowerPC,
> >or maybe something is misconfigured. It s
According to Adam Israel, on Sun, 09 May 2004 18:55:53 -0500,
>I've got Debian sid installed on my iBook (G3, 800Mhz).
>
>Maybe I'm misunderstanding how power management works on the PowerPC,
>or maybe something is misconfigured. It seems that the battery only
>lasts for about 2 hours. I'll wat
> > Caution: last time I did that on the new battery pack, it reduced
> > max_charge somewhat.
>
> Yes, every battery documentation says to _not_ deep discharge batteries
> if you want to get good battery life. I wouldn't risk doing that with
> new batteries. But if I can make old batteries last fo
On 7 May, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace:
>> I repeated another deep discharge yesterday, and I'm up from 1574 to
>> 1866 :-))
>
> That seems to work to some degree.
>
>> We'll see how long that game can go on before the batteris are
>> terminally dead ...
>
> Caut
> >> Looks good to me... My TiBook is down to 1574 :-(
> >
> > Repeat the 'deep' discharge a few more times and check again. Might be
> > necessary to do a PMU reset even (I'm sure I had a PMU reset in the
> > meantime)
>
> > Well, deep (down to cutoff) discharge bumped max charge from 1745 to 1861
On 29 Apr, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace:
>> > I'll have to try that again now that battery life is degrading. Max
>> > charge of 1745 is OK for Lombard, right?
>>
>> Looks good to me... My TiBook is down to 1574 :-(
>
> Repeat the 'deep' discharge a few more times a
> > Yep, that's what I noticed as well (in MacOS, not Linux). What's the
> > voltage calibration? My battery starts at a reading of 11911 ...
>
> I suppose, at least for my TiBook, that it's simply mV. That would match
> the fully-charged/end-of-discharge voltages I see for my battery pack (4
> gra
On 28 Apr, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace:
>> After studying some Li-ion battery docs, I found that
>> end-of-discharge voltage for those batteries should be 3.0V. I
>> noticed PMU still gave me 14.0V when charge was aproaching 0%; so I
>> decided to let it drain down
> On 7 Apr, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace:
> >> >http://ryoko.camperquake.de/solutions
> >>
> >> Anyone tested it. Is that working?
>
> Tried it yesterday after my battery went down to 1514 max_charge.
>
> After studying some Li-ion battery docs, I found that end-of-
On 7 Apr, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace:
>> >http://ryoko.camperquake.de/solutions
>>
>> Anyone tested it. Is that working?
Tried it yesterday after my battery went down to 1514 max_charge.
After studying some Li-ion battery docs, I found that end-of-discharge
volt
> >http://ryoko.camperquake.de/solutions
>
> Anyone tested it. Is that working?
Not with battery life per se, but I did that sort of PMU reset on my
Lombard after it refused to charge the battery in the default bay, and all
was fine.
I'll have to try that again now that battery life is degrading.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:27:12AM +0100, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote:
>http://ryoko.camperquake.de/solutions
Anyone tested it. Is that working?
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To continue the battery discussion...
>> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 i read it very
>> quickly, but it might be useful! it describes how to reset the pmu
Resetting the PMU didn't hange anything for me. I think resetting the
PMU can help when you're unable to use your batt
Hi all,
Here's more battery-related info:
On 22 Mar, this message from Clemens Mangler echoed through cyberspace:
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 i read it very
> quickly, but it might be useful! it describes how to reset the pmu
Another interesting read is this:
http:/
hi!
i found an article on a german mac site about one week ago.
there was a report about apple users, who had problems with ibook batteries and
had them replaced by apple. there was also a link to apple's discussion site
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449
i read it very quickly, b
Hi ..
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:18:41AM +0100, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote:
>Hi ..
>
>On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:05:27AM +, Gimli wrote:
>>i know this is not the apropriate list but i wanted to ask if anyone is
>>having problems with the ibook's battery.
>>i would also like to ask if someone c
Hi ..
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:05:27AM +, Gimli wrote:
>i know this is not the apropriate list but i wanted to ask if anyone is
>having problems with the ibook's battery.
>i would also like to ask if someone could recomend some links on the
>subject.
There was an article in the internet
On 20 Mar, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace:
> On Don, 2003-03-20 at 11:42, Edward G. Speyer wrote:
>> Note how my max_charge has dropped from 3404 to 2874. Should I be
>> alarmed or is this just the PMU giving me dodgy statistics? (It does
>> seem odd how max_charge on
On Don, 2003-03-20 at 11:42, Edward G. Speyer wrote:
>
> http://www-stu.cai.cam.ac.uk/~egs21/iBook-battery-log.gz
>
> Note how my max_charge has dropped from 3404 to 2874. Should I be alarmed
> or is this just the PMU giving me dodgy statistics? (It does seem odd how
> max_charge only drops w
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:05:27AM +, Gimli wrote:
> > i know this is not the apropriate list but i wanted to ask if anyone is
> > having problems with the ibook's battery.
> > i would also like to ask if someone could recomend some links on the
> >
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:05:27AM +, Gimli wrote:
> i know this is not the apropriate list but i wanted to ask if anyone is
> having problems with the ibook's battery.
> i would also like to ask if someone could recomend some links on the
> subject.
Search the list archives for posts on bat
Hej Zach,
> I'm curious about my 2400 that I just got. It seems that the battery
> doesn't charge all the way, or perhaps it's the software that's
> reading it (pmud). I haven't done a real thorough test to see how
> long the book will run, but that'll come tonight. Anyhow, what I'm
> lookin
> I'm curious about my 2400 that I just got. It seems that the battery
> doesn't charge all the way, or perhaps it's the software that's
> reading it (pmud). I haven't done a real thorough test to see how
> long the book will run, but that'll come tonight. Anyhow, what I'm
> looking for is, h
On May 05 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> once i heard that by running the battery all the way down, you can
> get the battery to "forget" itself (and the charge level). and then
> charging it normally. maybe it's one of those that has "memory",
> then this will work.
Well, I also read th
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 05:17:07PM -0500, Zach Lowry wrote:
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> Hello all!
>
> I'm curious about my 2400 that I just got. It seems that the battery
> doesn't charge all the way, or perhaps it's the software that's
> reading it (pmud).
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