Hi,
The orange light on my magsafe is on to show it's charging, but the battery icon is saying 'Condition: Replace Now' and as soon as I take the power cord out, it dies. Does it mean anything by the fact the orange light is on rather than the green light? I've tried recalibrating the battery to no avail.
Any help would be appreciated.
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
As you seem to know, the orange light indicates a charging status.
If things shut down when you remove the power supply, you may have a battery that isn't taking a charge.
Do you display the battery status in you Apple menu bar?
To display it go: AppleLogo/System preferences/Energy Saver, then, check the box to "Show battery status in menu bar".
Once the display is present, click on it to get its menu, goto, Show/Percentages
At full charge, I get anywhere from 97% to 100% displayed. And a green LED at the mag connector.
Do you use the Air on battery a lot? Because every battery has a recycling limit/life.
I don't know the exact figure, but for an example say, 1000 charge cycles.
That would translate into say one cycle per day, a little over a three year life expectancy for the battery.
How long have you had that battery and how often do you use the battery?
Let us know results.
Try resetting SMC and if that does not help, you have to take the computer
to the Apple store to have the battery replaced.
Reset SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".
For complete information about battery:
Click in the menu bar.
About This Mac > More Info.. > System Report > Hardware > Power > Battery Information
Best.
It's possible that your charger is broken
Try charging with someone else's to find out
"to have the battery replaced" - how do you know this is battery? Equally well this might be the logic board. Liquid damage would be one possible cause.
Orange light on, not charging.
