Concerning devices that store electrical power which can be used to run various devices in the absence of external power.
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Retina Macbook Pro now has faster battery drain
I have disabled Hibernation mode and Deep Sleep mode, I also keep the charger plugged in about a week before removing it if I want to go somewhere with the laptop.
I don't know if this is normal, but ...
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My iPod Touch 2nd generation is dead
My iPod touch does not respond since yesterday. I cannot see anything on the screen and the buttons don't do anything, no backlighting either. The problem started when I wanted to plug my iPod into ...
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iPhone 3GS turning off randomly while being used
While using the phone it randomly shuts down. And when I turn it back on battery drains by about 3 or 4 percent. Could this be a battery problem or a sign to another major problem? So the only way I ...
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iPad boot loop only when powered - brief flash loop when connected to USB - jailbreak gone awry?
Received an iPad from a customer in an unknown state. Report was "does not power on". Device is out of warranty. It's the 1st generation iPad with a 3G chip.
Symptoms:
when connected to power only, ...
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1answer
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MacBook Retina strange system/battery behaviour
I am quite used to the fact, that MacOS X does a lot abracadabra internally to provide the best user experience ever, but I also used to understand all that happens. With my pristine MBPr (3 battery ...
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Dilemma about replacing the battery in my 17" MacBook Pro mid-2010
After 3 years my mid-2010 17" MBP model is telling me it's time to replace the battery. The current one (model A1309, FWIW) has had ~1000 cycles now and can't hold the charge reliably anymore.
Being ...
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Seems like my trackpad is never sleeping/shutting off
I'm experiencing some funny behavior with my Retina MacBook Pro and my Magic Trackpad. There are two symptoms that I believe could be related:
The batteries on my trackpad drain far more quickly ...
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Portable phone charger information for iPhone4
How to determine negative and positive power source on phone charger by color code between red or white ?
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iPod Model #1238 will not charge
I have an iPod Model #A1238 in which the battery is low. I tried to connect the power adapter cable which was provided to try to charge it but no luck. I thought it was the power cable so I bought a ...
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iPhone 4S/IOS6 - battery drain after the camera usage
Just discovered than my iPhone4S/IOS6 draining battery too fast after I using the camera. So:
after the fresh restart the phone lasts 3 days - when not taking photos or videos, but
enough take one ...
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What's broken in my iPhone
I just got my friends' iPhone and he claims he's broken. So I sent it to a repair centre and they told me the logic board was broken. However, when I try to recharge the iPhone by plugging it in the ...
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Macbook Pro Sleep Battery Drain
I have an Early 2011 Macbook Pro (13", basic spec) which since I got it (I only just stopped to think about it) has had a massive amount of sleep battery drain.
When the laptop is on and in-use, its ...
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i have changed my Iphone 3g battery but it stucks on 61%
Hey guys did a search and couldnt find anything that really suited my situation. I recently changed my iphone battery, The Phone turns on and the battery decrease imediately its decrease 1% with in 10 ...
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iPhone 5 battery unused for 2 month
I would like to know if there is a risk for my iPhone 5 battery after remaining 2 months unused and uncharged. I'm going to re-use my iPhone, and I wonder if it stills usable for daily uses.
Any ...
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Fusion Drive Setup: Possible to force the HDD to spin down as long as your reading from/writing to the SSD?
I'm considering to replace my optical drive in my MacBook Pro with an SSD. When using it as separate Volume, the advantage is that you can spin down the HDD, thus reduce noise and first and foremost, ...
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What's the easiest/cheapest way to replace my battery? 2009 MBP
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro (5,5). I can spend about $150 either taking it to the apple store and having them replace it or buying all the stuff from iFixit and doing it myself.
Is there any ...
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Strange sleep mode of MacBook behaviour after water damage
Months ago I drowned my MacBooks keyboard in water and it died. I'm using an external keyboard now the Mac works as before. However, there is this interesting feature that if I just close the Mac ...
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iPhone won't charge anymore in infinite boot-loop
NOTE: I know this is a lot of text to handle, but I'll add a bounty whenever I can to the person who can bring me the solution. So see is as a motivation to read the whole text :)
My friend has the ...
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“2008 Mac Book Pro 15” Fan max speed, Battery not recognized , SMC reset makes it worse
I have a "15" Mac Book Pro 5,1 and after running it stone dead on battery once it wouldn't power on without holding down the power button, with battery and AC removed and then plug AC back in while ...
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iOS & iCloud: Broken iCloud data causes kbd process to crash constantly and drains battery
On Stackoverflow I was told to come here.
Since a few days ago my iPhone 5 is getting unusually warm and the battery drains REALLY quick, like in 4-5 hours. I tried turning all the usual suspecty off ...
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Automator crashes on Lion, error: Exited abnormally: Broken pipe: 13
I wrote a workflow to check battery duration, on osx 10.8.3 works perfectly and on 10.7.5 crash after a random time.
In console I get this error:
com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ...
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Powerbank suggestions for an iPhone
I'm new to the powerbank discussion and would like to know what people are using/recommending in terms of a backup battery supply for their iPhone?
Thanks again for the input
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iPod touch: Songs will not start
My iPod's touch screen is as responsive as new, but upon selecting a song to play from an album, the screen returns from the song selected to the song list in about 1 second. The battery life is ...
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Utility to warn when process takes 100% CPU for x minutes?
I run on battery a lot and occasionally a process/app will crash in the background and start sucking up 100% of one or more cores. That in turn burns my battery down way faster than normal. I used ...
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Battery specs for MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Retina MacBook Pro
I am trying to figure out if I can ship a MacBook over her to Europe via an APO box.
On Apple's website it tells me the watt-hours of each model, but it doesn't say how many cells.
Here are the ...
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Disabling Hibernation AND DeepSleep mode on Retina Macbook Pro reduce battery life?
I am currently on 90%, HDMI connected to 2nd monitor, about 5-6 links open in Safari, terminal running (coding on python), Stickies, Messages, and Mail are running.
My battery has 2h of remaining ...
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How do you know when the battery has absolutely no charge?
I'm trying to reset the battery indicator on my iPod touch. To do this I need the battery to be completely empty first. How do I know when this happens?
Right now I can turn it on and it will have ...
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poor battery life when MacBook Pro is 'sleeping'
I have a early 2011 MBP, Mountain Lion (OS 10.8.2), a Crucial M4 SSD and I have noticed that the battery performance when the computer is 'sleeping' with the lid closed is crap. If I got to bed at ...
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Possible to only AV scan while computer is on AC power?
My battery life dropped to 50% on a Macbook Pro within 40 minutes due to a AV scan. In addition the laptop itself got very very hot.
I'm currently using the free Sophos software and don't see an ...
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Battery health inconsistent
With the iStat Nano dashboard widget I can see the health of the battery on my 10.6.8 Macbook Pro. This health value jumps from 76%, to 84%, to 80%, etc. just in a few hours.
I've reset the SMC ...
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iBook battery repack
I have several ibook batteries that have gone bad and I was wanting to open them up and make some good batteries out of all of them by taking out the bad cells and putting other ones in there place, ...
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Charging suddenly stopped
After opening the lid on my 2010 MacBook Pro, the machine indicated it was not charging yet and the MagSafe light was amber.
I followed the SMC instructions, installed the Java update, restarted, and ...
