Flashing orange to green?

Same thing happening here... I'm on my second battery (the first one stopped working altogether) and my battery health has dropped from around 80% to 33% in only a few cycles. Oh, and there are only 52 cycles on this battery. Now I notice the charge light switching between green and amber. Simply wonderful.

I tried calibrating the battery, to no avail... the computer won't sleep properly when the battery gets low, it just shuts off abruptly. I also tried resetting the SMC, no difference.

Any updates on this? I plan on going to an apple service store when I get back to the city in a couple weeks, so I'll be sure to post my experiences as well. Honestly, if they could solve this one curse of a problem I would have absolutely nothing negative to say about the MBP. What a pain.

Add me to the list of those having similar problems. I also had to get my first battery replaced after about six months, and now the second one seems to be dying as well. I have several hundred cycles on mine (although I can't tell whether CoconutBattery knows to differentiate between the first and second batteries when it counts cycles); I use my laptop on the go frequently, yes, but I didn't think that this would mean I had to buy a new battery once or twice a year.

I have recalibrated several times, and this has not helped at all. If anything it has made things worse. If CoconutBattery is to be believed, I have vacillated between 70% and down to 15% of original battery capacity within the last couple of weeks. Sometimes it seems very confused -- I have seen it say 15% and 55% on the same day!

The abrupt shutoffs when the battery is low are also getting more frequent for me as well. As is the light switching from green to amber and back.

I agree: I otherwise love my MBP, but it is hard for me to believe that Apple can't seem to get its act together with the battery, and it is indeed an enormous headache.

Take a look at your the visible pins that make contact with your computer.

Then read this:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302461

Here is the link:
http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate/

and another one

https://support.apple.com/macbookpro15/batteryexchange/

You should be able to get a replacement battery, read this:
http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate/

I reset the SMC as per directions. No noticeable change whatsover...is there a log/console that notes it even happened so I can be sure?

This *****.

Calibrated the battery and my problem seems rectified. Geee Yah!

How did you calibrate the battery?


Thank you,


Reed

Mine was just doing this last night and since has been stuck at 26% !




any ideas?

My MBP started having the same symptoms as well, are there any updates from anyone? Has apple replaced the power adapter, battery, etc?

Thanks
-TM

The battery in my MBP seems to be doing well, but will keep an eye on it too.