Q: Mavericks - power use / service battery

Is this an Apple battery, or  3rd party, and how much did it cost?

It's an official Apple spare part. The price is on the ifixit website. You need to check which model MacBook Air you have first, then see if they have a battery and the tools for it.

Yes, I just checked, it is an Apple part, thanks.

But it is only $10 more from Apple, and that includes fitting and testing the battery, so I am not sure that a $10 saving would sway me from having Apple do it, and warranty it.

But thanks for the info.

Omg, how did that happen? Are you ok?

LOL! i am ok. I saw the Mavericks battery alert but i didn't have got problems, about 4 hours of battery and everything ok. And one week later (more or less) i heard a dry-sound..... I was scary. It sounded as "CRACH" and the down-cover looked like a dome.... amazing!  O_O

In the next power on I lost the time of the clock of the system and there were a lot of errors in system console etc etc.... I spent one hour to open the cover....and tadaaa! you can see the pictures.... no words!

:O

absouletly dreadful. same case has happened to me, a month ago, refused to pay for a battery, and will not until i see this through. in fact, all started after maverick update. from the second day after i updated to maverick the issue ensued. tried all solutions, and even reinstalled fresh maverick .but no hope. battery exploded. Apple support said "it is normal". i was like, seriously? that is normal? it is not normal, period. my child was using the laptop when happened. imagine all the possibilities that could have happened to my kid. the is child endangerment, not just for a child, it is to anyone else.

I love Apple, but enough is enough, when a faulty battery present risk to the user.

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Glad to know   Since it's a fairly rare happening, I had no clue what it means to have a bettery explode. I thought it actually went BOOM, and acid all over the place, and stuff..

The fact that they say it's normal is unbelievable, and to me it means that what's happening all over this thread is deliberate in some way..

Maybe they want get rid of all the stock they have on batteries before they are unusable or something..

I  noticed something, I think the SMC might have been lying, or still is,  all this time. I had my laptop connected all day, while I was backing up  and preparing to install Snow Leopard from scratch. After install I  looked at the battery icon in the menu bar, and it said (not charging)  although the light was green on the adapter. So I disconnected the  adapter, to find that battery level was at 58%. I thought it was  missreading, so left it disconnected until safe sleep to calibrate, so  it wouldn't overcharge or somethn.

Last time I checked, before  formating, Mavericks said it was 100%, and I didn't even touch the  adapter or the mag-safe thing, the whole time. Plus, the adapter was  quite hot at the end of the day.

I don't know if things like this do happen to other people, but I'll leave it here anyway.

Unacceptable, Apple!

Well, we've passed the six-month mark of Mavericks being foisted upon the suckers and Apple appears they will follow through with their SOP of pretending nothing is wrong and never fixing the problem. Lovely.

According to the Energy Impact graph, I've been on battery for a whole 35 minutes and I'm at 73% and while it was saying I only had 1h 45m left, it's now claiming a whole whopping 2h 55m, so 3-1/2 hours. I got more run time from my old Dell XPS laptop running Vista that I got in 2007.

IndianOnMac wrote:

 

Unacceptable, Apple!

Sony made the batteries, they blew up in Macs, Dells, Gateways and many others. There was a recall and replacement scheme (paid for by Sony) did you not take advantage of it

I phoned the local Apple store - they were not sure if they can replace the battery on the same day, or if I need to wait a few days for the order. They said that it depends if they have the battery in stock, but they are unable to check it, so I need to schedule an appointment, and they will see when I arrive.

I cannot approve of such level of service. I will not be driving 2 hours to the Apple Store only to learn that they do not have the battery in stock. This is a simple repair and I will rather do it myself, not risking the need to leave the laptop with them for a few days. This is my reason to do it on my own. It is a shame that Apple cannot serve customers like myself. But it is their choice.

But it is their choice.

Actually it's your choice, take it to Apple or not, they will be there regardless.

Well, we both have our choices

Hi there everybody!
I have a MacBookPro 15 bought in 2009. I never had issues of any sort with it up until I installed Mavericks few months ago. Then I started noticing strange behaviour of the battery. Sometimes lasted up to two days (not in constant use) sometimes it was out in a couple of hours.
Last week while watching a movie using only the battery power (no magsafe plugged in) even if the battery was 100% charged when I started, after 45 mins my MBP shutted down by itself and when I tried to turn it on again I found out the battery was now 2%. And also the "service battery" message appeared.

I immediately booked the Genius Bar to check everything was ok, and I went there. They told me that the battery is in good condition, still has around 500 cycles to go through before changing it, that the "service battery" was not supposed to be there and they sent me home with apparently the message gone and the battery working.

It only lasted a couple of hours. Now I have the "service battery" message on again, battery lasts only 2 hours, and no idea what to do. I would probably book another check with the genius bar, but I'm reading all over the internet that even if they change my battery the problem could still come back again.

What to do? I filled the form in this thread to report the "bug" to Apple.