{"id":22,"date":"2007-04-08T08:51:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T16:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2007-04-08T08:51:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T16:51:57","slug":"apple-portables-issue-a-holiday-killed-my-macs-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/08\/apple-portables-issue-a-holiday-killed-my-macs-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple portables issue &#8211; a holiday killed my mac&#8217;s battery!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working the other night, and then I simply left my macbook pro on without  hooking the AC cord on, same as I do every night. Since it was a holiday the day after, the computer had another day and night to rest.. it went to sleep, and apparently drained the battery completely.Now the battery indicator went to &#8220;X&#8221; and it wont recognize the battery. The AC connector has a constant green light, and unhooking it causes immediate power down, loosing any unsaved data.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/todepoint\/450989501\/\" title=\"battery not recognized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/252\/450989501_b165512f45_o.jpg\" alt=\"dead_battery.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA short googling brought that this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macbookrandomshutdown.com\/2006\/11\/20\/firmware-fix-killing-batteries\/\" target=\"_blank\">common<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showthread.php?t=204889\" target=\"_blank\">common<\/a>  phenomenon, and it happens under perfectly normal use, the macbooks (and pros) simply let the battery discharge to a point of no return, killing the battery.so my battery is dead.I am still under first year warranty so I guess I can replace it, but this is very disturbing because it can happen again. as a professional one of the reasons I use a mac is the reliability, no crashes, no hardware issues, no surprises. I payed good $ for my mac and I have very low tolerance for such problems. The minimum Apple could do is publish a warning or instruction to avoid this phenomenon.One bad point added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working the other night, and then I simply left my macbook pro on without hooking the AC cord on, same as I do every night. Since it was a holiday the day after, the computer had another day and night to rest.. it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}