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So, sometime around last November, my iBook started having battery \nproblems. It went from 3 hours of life, down to an hour, and finally\ndown to about 15 minutes' worth of life. Being lazy and busy, and \nhaving my iBook mostly at desks near outlets, I put off taking it into\nthe shop -- I'd just taken it there to replace the hard drive, and I\ndidn't feel like parting with it again. Stupid, I know. Lazy, I know.

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Well, since then, the problem hasn't gotten better, and I was just about \nto get off my ass to do something about it when I see this:

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MacNN: iBook users experience 10.2.4 battery bug

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So after browsing around forums a bit, I learned how to reset my Power Management Unit,\ndid so, and discovered that the battery began to charge again. I left \nthe iBook off and watched the 4 LEDs on the battery gradually light up\nover a bit of time while working on my desktop. Looks like the problem's\nsolved for now.

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Ugh. I'm glad, at least, that it wasn't a physically dead battery.

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\n\n\n", "body": "So, sometime around last November, my iBook started having battery \r\nproblems. It went from 3 hours of life, down to an hour, and finally\r\ndown to about 15 minutes' worth of life. Being lazy and busy, and \r\nhaving my iBook mostly at desks near outlets, I put off taking it into\r\nthe shop -- I'd just taken it there to replace the hard drive, and I\r\ndidn't feel like parting with it again. Stupid, I know. Lazy, I know.\r\n

\r\nWell, since then, the problem hasn't gotten better, and I was just about \r\nto get off my ass to do something about it when I see this:\r\n

\r\nMacNN: iBook users experience 10.2.4 battery bug\r\n

\r\nSo after browsing around forums a bit, I learned how to reset my Power Management Unit,\r\ndid so, and discovered that the battery began to charge again. I left \r\nthe iBook off and watched the 4 LEDs on the battery gradually light up\r\nover a bit of time while working on my desktop. Looks like the problem's\r\nsolved for now.\r\n

\r\nUgh. I'm glad, at least, that it wasn't a physically dead battery.\r\n\r\nshortname=bad_apple_no_battery\r\n\r\n
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\r\n ", "parentPath": "./content/posts/archives/2003", "path": "2003/03/05/bad-apple-no-battery", "summary": "So, sometime around last November, my iBook started having battery \nproblems. It went from 3 hours of life, down to an hour, and finally\ndown to about 15 minutes' worth of life. Being lazy and busy, and \nhaving my iBook mostly at desks near outlets, I put off taking it into\nthe shop -- I'd just taken it there to replace the hard drive, and I\ndidn't feel like parting with it again. Stupid, I know. Lazy, I know.\nWell, since then, the problem hasn't gotten better, and I was just about \nto get off my ass to do something about it when I see this:\nMacNN: iBook users experience 10.2.4 battery bug\nSo after browsing around forums a bit, I learned how to reset my Power Management Unit,\ndid so, and discovered that the battery began to charge again. I left \nthe iBook off and watched the 4 LEDs on the battery gradually light up\nover a bit of time while working on my desktop. Looks like the problem's\nsolved for now.\nUgh. I'm glad, at least, that it wasn't a physically dead battery.", "needsBuild": true, "prevPostPath": "2003/03/04/feeling-lucky", "prevPostTitle": "Oh, I'm feeling lucky.", "nextPostPath": "2003/03/06/throwable-phone", "nextPostTitle": "Did I dream the urchin phone?" }