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If there is no light.

Change your charger.
Clean your charger and laptop connectors.
Go to Apple Genius Bar.

If there is a light.

Go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info (and then System Report if you are running 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion or 10.9 Mavericks), then select Power from the left hand column of the System Profiler. Then check Battery Information from the top of the page. This could be useful.
Check your charger for the power parameters (Watts), it could be too low for your needs.
Check your battery health and and the current charge by installing coconutBattery app.

Try to reset your SMC.

Try pressing the left side keyboard 'Shift-control-option and power buttons at the same time and then releasing them. This resets the SMC and sometimes it solve the battery not charging issue on Macs.
It’s important to keep track of your power consumption on a Macbook

Air or Pro, since that will determine how long you can use the thing before you have to plug it in again. Mavericks makes it easy to see the top app or two that uses the most energy on your Mac with a quick Option-Click on the battery menubar icon, letting you know which apps are consuming the most energy.

If there is no light.

Change your charger.
Clean your charger and laptop connectors.
Go to Apple Genius Bar.

If there is a light.

Go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info (and then System Report if you are running 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion or 10.9 Mavericks), then select Power from the left hand column of the System Profiler. Then check Battery Information from the top of the page. This could be useful.
Check your charger for the power parameters (Watts), it could be too low for your needs.
Try to reset your SMC.

Try pressing the left side keyboard 'Shift-control-option and power buttons at the same time and then releasing them. This resets the SMC and sometimes it solve the battery not charging issue on Macs.
It’s important to keep track of your power consumption on a Macbook

Air or Pro, since that will determine how long you can use the thing before you have to plug it in again. Mavericks makes it easy to see the top app or two that uses the most energy on your Mac with a quick Option-Click on the battery menubar icon, letting you know which apps are consuming the most energy.

If there is no light.

Change your charger.
Clean your charger and laptop connectors.
Go to Apple Genius Bar.

If there is a light.

Go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info (and then System Report if you are running 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion or 10.9 Mavericks), then select Power from the left hand column of the System Profiler. Then check Battery Information from the top of the page. This could be useful.
Check your charger for the power parameters (Watts), it could be too low for your needs.
Check your battery health and and the current charge by installing coconutBattery app.

Try to reset your SMC.

Try pressing the left side keyboard 'Shift-control-option and power buttons at the same time and then releasing them. This resets the SMC and sometimes it solve the battery not charging issue on Macs.
It’s important to keep track of your power consumption on a Macbook

Air or Pro, since that will determine how long you can use the thing before you have to plug it in again. Mavericks makes it easy to see the top app or two that uses the most energy on your Mac with a quick Option-Click on the battery menubar icon, letting you know which apps are consuming the most energy.

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created Aug 19, 2014 at 11:10

kenorb

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85
150

If there is no light.

Change your charger.
Clean your charger and laptop connectors.
Go to Apple Genius Bar.

If there is a light.

Go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info (and then System Report if you are running 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion or 10.9 Mavericks), then select Power from the left hand column of the System Profiler. Then check Battery Information from the top of the page. This could be useful.
Check your charger for the power parameters (Watts), it could be too low for your needs.
Try to reset your SMC.

Try pressing the left side keyboard 'Shift-control-option and power buttons at the same time and then releasing them. This resets the SMC and sometimes it solve the battery not charging issue on Macs.
It’s important to keep track of your power consumption on a Macbook

Air or Pro, since that will determine how long you can use the thing before you have to plug it in again. Mavericks makes it easy to see the top app or two that uses the most energy on your Mac with a quick Option-Click on the battery menubar icon, letting you know which apps are consuming the most energy.