MBP Not charging properly

[Mr Pants]

Okay weird one.

Either my battery or the charger seems rather odd at the moment. Like now, I've just been trying to charge. The screen goes a bit brighter as it's always done when plugged in, but it remains green rather than going the orange colour and charging.

I know I can go to the Apple store, but I can't tonight so figured I'd post up and see if anybody has any ideas first.

Thx in advance.

 

[jenic]

Thats how my old one started. Needed a new charger in the end.

Guy at the store said 99% of the time its either a new charger or dc in board.

 

[Fletcher]

Have you had a look on here yet?

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

 

[Mr Pants]

Have you had a look on here yet?

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

I did mate. I've had the Mac for 29 weeks now, and I'm at 95% of the original capacity which sounds okay to me?

Could I therefore assume it's more likely a fault with the charger itself?

 

[Munson]

I'm pretty sure a similar thing happened to my 17" shortly after buying it. It was a one-off and sorted itself. Now 14 months old and Coconut reports capacity as 97% so no lasting problems in my case.

 

[Fletcher]

I did mate. I've had the Mac for 29 weeks now, and I'm at 95% of the original capacity which sounds okay to me?

Could I therefore assume it's more likely a fault with the charger itself?

Not bad.

IIRC my MBP is 18 months old now, and the battery capacity is still at 98%

So yes it does sound like the charger mate.

 

[Christopher]

100% the charger.

Common fault.

 

[Mr Pants]

Thanks guys for confirming! So do I just need to book into the Genius bar and get a new one courtesy of Apple Care?

 

[Rob]

FFS!!!

I'm buying my MBP Saturday!!!

About 20k mac's are going wrong around me... Omen?

 

[Christopher]

Stop flapping. LOL.

 

[welshname]

have you tried discharging the battery??? im not certain what models can do this though.

 

[Mr Pants]

I'm not sure what that is in truth...

Sometimes it charges, sometimes it doesn't. I need to pop to the Apple store anyway..