How do you force battery to charge ?

I have an electrical engineering background and my understanding of batteries is that it might simply be that the nominal outputed voltage (with whatever the Macbook circuitry load is ) way lower than the batteyr nominal votage is supposed to be. Usually forcing the charge state would bring up normal charging state and resume overall Macbook charging/usage conditions.

I don't feel the battery is defective. Apple can't possible have put cheaper battery in there, they had to be picking among the best ones espicially since we can no longer remove battery in those newer Macbook Pros. I feel some force charging mode might be possible somehow ( maybe not from OSX but maybe form firmware or technician low level tools)

I guess YOU don't quite understand, because the system doesn't see a battery (see entire post!) I cannot get any of the related battery infos.

Yes I already seen that KB article. I'm sorry but did you actually read the posts (including the older one I linked ) ? I mentionned that the computer won't run at all without the adapter. How you think I can proceed with such in my case ?

To Dominic23,

Thank you. Myself wa assuming there was some way to enforce battery charging (especially for newer models with non-removable battery). I find it quite stupid requiring servicing for such an issue. Sometime, one might not be able to go to a fabcy Apple store or some other authorized Apple servicing place:

a) too far (migth be far up north ... far form basically anything )

b) on a really tight schedule and cannot afford wasting that time

Anyways, I'll give you browny points as I don't recall seeing article PH4262.

For the discussion's record, in case someone else looks into such an issue, the Apple Hardware Test (AHT) returned:

4xxx / 1 / 40000000: "Battery"