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Hi all, I'm new to the forums I hope you guys can help me with this problem.
I have a 3-year-old Macbook and it's been giving me several battery problems in the few months or so. First the battery would stop charging at its full power and stop around 97-98% with the LED flickering between red and green intermittently and so did the indicator on the bar change between charging and not charging. Things have gotten worse as it got to the point where it would do this around 75% and now the battery is stuck at 0% and won't charge at all. I have replaced the charger with a new one literally minutes ago as the old one melted (!) so I know it's not a problem with the charger. I've tried resetting the SMC and all but it won't help.
Also, I am perfectly aware that batteries deteriorate with time, but mine only has 144 load cycles and it's already at 10% of its original capacity. I hardly ever use the laptop off the mains so I'm surprised it's gotten so bad. Any thoughts? Any chance that Apple will replace my battery even if I'm not under warranty anymore, if it turns out to be a defective one?
Thanks.
I have a 3-year-old Macbook and it's been giving me several battery problems in the few months or so. First the battery would stop charging at its full power and stop around 97-98% with the LED flickering between red and green intermittently and so did the indicator on the bar change between charging and not charging. Things have gotten worse as it got to the point where it would do this around 75% and now the battery is stuck at 0% and won't charge at all. I have replaced the charger with a new one literally minutes ago as the old one melted (!) so I know it's not a problem with the charger. I've tried resetting the SMC and all but it won't help.
Also, I am perfectly aware that batteries deteriorate with time, but mine only has 144 load cycles and it's already at 10% of its original capacity. I hardly ever use the laptop off the mains so I'm surprised it's gotten so bad. Any thoughts? Any chance that Apple will replace my battery even if I'm not under warranty anymore, if it turns out to be a defective one?
Thanks.