[Ricky]

The results from my rev. A 12-inch Powerbook

"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4223,"Amperage"=1435

[phantomo]

Ricky, how old is your battery? This is not the one comes with your Rev. A I suppose.

[Captain Egotist]

15" tibook with original battery:
Capacity: 2168 Amperage: 1054

In comparison to you guys these look pretty horrid but I'm still getting over 2 hours of use when using wirless internet so what the hell. >shrug<

[RealMac]

My Rev A Aluminum PBG4 from Fall 2003:
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=2972,"Amperage"=0,"Current"=2969,"Vol tage"=12439,"Flags"=1090519045})

I have been keeping it plugged into AC lately.

[U n i o n 0015]

Results from my 12" Rev. D PowerBook:

"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4599,"Amperage"=1844674407370955044 2$

I didn't get any flags or anything, just the code I copied and pasted into here, am I doing something wrong?

[Such87]

new 17"

IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=5808,"Amperage"=2381,"Cycle Count"=5...

can't complain. i don't know what the max battery life is like, as i've been running w/ full screen brighness, airport, and bluetooth constantly running, but i'm getting at least a few good hours.

[Leo the 3rd]

Originally posted by U n i o n 0015:
Results from my 12" Rev. D PowerBook:

"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4599,"Amperage"=1844674407370955044 2$

I didn't get any flags or anything, just the code I copied and pasted into here, am I doing something wrong?

Seems like the info is scrolling of the window. You can capture it to a log file by adding the following at the end of your command line:
>> battery_info.log

Then you can view the log file by doing the following:

more battery_info.log

Sorry if you already know these UNIX commands.

Alternately, you can just make the Terminal window bigger and the rest of the data should appear properly.

[Leo the 3rd]

Well I have a PowerBook battery that is less than a year old and I'm now getting the following stats:

| | | "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3665,"Amperage"=0,"Cycle Count"=86,"Current"=3663,"Voltage"=12415,"Flags"=1 090519045,"AbsoluteMaxCapacity"=4400})
| | | | "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3665,"Amperage"=0,"Cycle Count"=86,"Current"=3663,"Voltage"=12415,"Flags"=1 090519045,"AbsoluteMaxCapacity"=4400})

This same battery is use to have a Capacity of 4449. Would this be considered a faulty battery at this point and should I see if Apple can replace it under warranty? Should their battery be dropping off so fast with under a year of usage?

[pxlshftr]

I did this in the old thread we had about this and only got 4400, but this time i get 4518. Is that bizzarre to get a bigger number later on down the line????

[Paco500]

IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4271,"Amperage"=2090,"Cycle Count"=7

15" Aluminum 1.33Ghz, ~6 months old.

[U n i o n 0015]

Originally posted by Leo the 3rd:
Seems like the info is scrolling of the window. You can capture it to a log file by adding the following at the end of your command line:
>> battery_info.log

Then you can view the log file by doing the following:

more battery_info.log

Sorry if you already know these UNIX commands.

Alternately, you can just make the Terminal window bigger and the rest of the data should appear properly.

Nope, I didn't know that, thanks! When I get home I'll take your suggestions and post my results.

[blicked]

I got a
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=1646,"Amperage"=1844674407370954964 9$

On a TiBook 800Mhz.

Scary shiat. Good thing I'm ordering a new book this week!

[wr11]

My battery has been crap for a while... like 5-10 minutes of charge and then it would quickly go to sleep..

I just did the battery test... and well this is what I got (not plugged in).

"Capacity"=65528,"Amperage"=18446744073709550158," Cycle Count"=209,"$

Notice the super scary numbers?!

Also forgot to say that it's going strong (20 mins + right now) and the lights on the bottom seem to agree that with the (99% full that it's showing)

[macdaemon]

So the capacity is actually floating number, depends from battery recharge cycles.
My PowerBook bought in December 2003 saying:
Capacity"=2887,"Amperage"=2599,"Cycle Count"=634,"Current"=192,"Voltage"=12202

[microrario]

Whoa, whoa, whoa...

"Capacity"=2693,"Amperage"=256,"Cycle Count"=297

on a PowerBook Rev. A 1.25 GHz. Can this warrant a replacement?

[redheadfred]

hahaha, this is why i got a new battery:

IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=729,"Amperage"=0,"Cycle Count"=190,"Current"=723,"Voltage"=16623,"Flags"=8 38860805,"AbsoluteMaxCapacity"=4000

so with the new one it's:

IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=3944,"Amperage"=1336,"Cycle Count"=2,"Current"=3219,"Voltage"=16487,"Flags"=83 8860807,"AbsoluteMaxCapacity"=4200

[macdaemon]

Originally posted by microrario:
Whoa, whoa, whoa...

"Capacity"=2693,"Amperage"=256,"Cycle Count"=297

on a PowerBook Rev. A 1.25 GHz. Can this warrant a replacement?

You was needed to check out on the Apple site when they had battery replacement program, probably still have. Mine s/n of battery were alright, so they didn't replace mine, but I think "their battery" sucks. I think they should find a better battery vendor, I don't know who makes them, but PowerBook G3 had a better battery life that mine G4 now.

[olePigeon]

"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4480,"Amperage"=1792$

2 month old 15" Rev D.

[gsxrboy]

Capacity Meter says 4364/4600.. 95% health for a 9 month old 15"

p.s. what happened to the developers site? I went there looking for a updated version and its all gone !

[Spadesman]

Originally posted by wr11:
My battery has been crap for a while... like 5-10 minutes of charge and then it would quickly go to sleep..

I just did the battery test... and well this is what I got (not plugged in).

"Capacity"=65528,"Amperage"=18446744073709550158," Cycle Count"=209,"$

Notice the super scary numbers?!

Also forgot to say that it's going strong (20 mins + right now) and the lights on the bottom seem to agree that with the (99% full that it's showing)

I too had a similar situation. It was due to the faulty 10.2.8 update that was pulled by Apple. After that update, my battery wouldn't work for more than 15-20 minutes. It finally stopped even recognizing I had a battery. I would get a capacity number in the same range as yours. I bought a NewerTech and have been freed from the power cord again!

[powerbook911]

Capacity"=4564

on a 12-inch Powerbook.

[Jalu]

Rev. A 12" Powerbook (july 2003)

"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4009,"Amperage"=0,"Cycle Count"=88,"Current"=4007,"Voltage"=12452,"Flags"=8 38861829,"AbsoluteMaxCapacity"=4200})

[suvsr4terrorists]

15" tibook: My battery now reads:

({"Capacity"=1891,"Amperage"=1113,"Cycle Count"=1$

This thing is getting bad.

[Braddlac]

{"Capacity"=4526,"Amperage"=0,"Cycle Count"=51,"$
| | | | | | | "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4526,"Amperage"=0,"C

[Sijmen]

My stock battery must be doing an insane job

Bond:~ Sijmen$ ioreg -l | grep -i IOBatteryInfo
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=5241,"Amperage"=0,"Cycle Count"=22,"Current"=5120,"Voltage"=12264,"Flags"=1 090519045,"AbsoluteMaxCapacity"=5400})

[Link]

| | | "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4373,"Amperage"=2535,"Cycle Count"=82,"Current"=2744,"Voltage"=12199,"Flags"=1 090519047,"AbsoluteMaxCapacity"=4400})

Not bad but dropping. When I got it, it was 4396, then it went to 4405 -- and suddenly it's 4373! That's a BIG drop!

[phantomo]

"Capacity"=1110,"Amperage"=0,"Cycle Count"=93,"Current"=1104,"Voltage"=12324,"Flags"=8 38860805,"AbsoluteMaxCapacity"=4200}

My original is quite bad... it started go south right after 1st year warranty. I am loosing ~200mAh a month after 12 months. I must have a bad one to start with. Notice my count is only 93 and I've saw people with 2xx cycles but still retain 3800 capacity. My 2nd battery purchased 2 months ago have capacity of 4553.

[madmacgames]

12" DVI 1GHz model (Oct 2003):

ioreg -l -w 0 | grep IOBatteryInfo:
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=2032,"Amperage"=708,"Cycle Count"=160,"Current"=1491,"Voltage"=12481,"Flags"= 838860807,"AbsoluteMaxCapacity"=4200})

Apple claims the batteries will not start depleting significantly until around 300 cycles... it's pretty sad then when a battery only about 1/2 ways to this threshold has already depleted over 50%. Seems to be the sad story of many.

[wizz0bang]

"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4453,"Amperage"=0,"Cycle Count"=27,"Current"=4352,"Voltage"=12482,"Flags"=8 38860805,"AbsoluteMaxCapacity"=4400}

From a 12" PB rev D purchased in February 2005.

[suvsr4terrorists]

I put in my other battery..... the one I listed above was only lasting a tad over an hour. Blech. New one is
"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=2445,"Amperage"=1380,"Cycle Count"=9$
| | | | "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=2445,"Amperage"=1380,"Cycle $

Not good. But better.

[mc751n]

I bought my 15" powerbook 4 days ago and this is what I got:

| | | "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4305,"Amperage"=2593,"Cycle Count"=5$
| | | | | | | "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4305,"Amperage"=2593$

Not really sure if its good, I calibrated the battery like it said in the manual. On the apple site it says not to keep the powerbook plugged in all the time so I usually charge all the way, deplete, charge all the way etc etc. All my other (windows based) laptops' batteries died one two three, I hope its better. I'd say this battery lasts 2.5 hours, is that good for the capacity of the batter?

[gradient]

12" 1.33 ghz iBook purchased last week:

On Battery power: "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4593,"Amperage"=1844674407370955060 2$
On Adapter power: "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=4593,"Amperage"=1002,"Cycle Count"=3$

Seems about right for a new battery compared to other posters in this thread. One weirdness i've noticed so far though is that the battery percentage never gets to 100%, only to 99%. I followed apple's instructions for conditioning the battery to a tee when i first got it. Has anyone else noticed this? Is it normal or does it indicate some risk of battery failure?

Thanks.

[Link]

So my 15"er is up to 4415 The trick is to sleep the machine when you get to ~95% and then wait for it to turn green -- this will usually get it as high as it can go.

[gradient]

Originally Posted by Link

So my 15"er is up to 4415 The trick is to sleep the machine when you get to ~95% and then wait for it to turn green -- this will usually get it as high as it can go.

Sorry, could you clarify what you meant by that exactly? I operate my iBook until it goes down to 95% then charge up again?

Thanks in adavance.

[Mac Zealot]

Err, what I meant was that when you charge it, if you're using the machine while it's charging, you can sleep it when it gets around 95% and then it'll continue to as far as it can go. For some reason when the computer's running it's more of a "mileage may vary" situation and my battery only ever charges to ~4300.

[gradient]

Brilliant, thanks. I'm now up to a full 100% charge.

[oskarlin]

I have an almost four years old titanium Powerbook which is giving me weird stuff when checking up the battery.

"IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=18868,"Amperage"=18446744073709550640 ,"Cycle Count"=295,"Current"=18222,"Voltage"=15208,"Flags" =4,"AbsoluteMaxCapacity"=4000}

what's wrong here?

[gentryfunk]

OK...have a new 15" PB. Battery is doing weird stuff....at a full charge I have 643 mAh....any thoughts?

[Nai no Kami]

12" PowerBook

This software is Coconut Battery.

[rem]

Looks like I got a pretty good battery (15" Albook 1.67MHz). Capacity = 4541 mAh. I have not calibrated it yet.

[Eriamjh]

Hmmm. Is it supposed to work on Pismos? I got "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=10000,"Amperage"=0,"Cycle Count"=249$

Could that be because it is reading the wrong battery bay (my other is empty and those numbers match XBattery.)

edit - Yup. Wrong bay. I got "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=2662,"Amperage"=18446744073709550439, "Current"=2340,"Voltage"=11$
| | | | "IOBatteryInfo" = ({"Capacity"=2662,"Amperage"=18446744073709550439, "Current"=2335,"Vol$
in the other bay.


I get about 2h15m on this old battery and have a 7200mAh replacement on order. Based on what XBattery reports (2662mAh capacity, a 7200 batt should give me 6 hours of standard battery life. If I buy a second, I'd get 12!

Update: OK, my battery came in and the paperwork claims it is a 7800mAh. I popped it into the Pismo and it reported 5400mAh, but it hasn't been calibrated. I ran a DVD for 3 hours and it still wasn't dead yet. I had to go to work before it went to sleep. With full brightness and full volume, XBattery reported about 2200 mA of current being used. Even on a 7800 battery that would last be 3.5 hours. I'll keep posting if anyone cares.