Battery indicator - Battery is Charged, or Not?

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Battery indicator - Battery is Charged, or Not?

I have this rMBP 15" mid-2015 running OS X 10.11.

the battery indicator says the battery is charged, the charger light is green, however, from the system information (about this mac->system report->power) it says it is 80XX out of 84XX and it is charging. Also, I ran coconut battery app and it agrees what the system information says. Why the indicator and light are off? Is this a bug from 10.11? Any one has the same problem or this needs to go to the apple store to be repaired?

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Posted on Oct 8, 2015 8:11 PM

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Oct 8, 2015 8:27 PM in response to phoneuser

Your battery charges strongly until it reaches about 80 percent charged, then the charge rate is reduced to trickle-charge levels for the rest of the charging. I have never read anything that indicates whether the charge indicator on the power adapter turns green at that point, but I expect that it may, because the power drawn from the power adapter drops dramatically at that point.

I don't see this as a Bug. Your Mac is taking care of you, and it seems to be doing a good job.

About Mac NoteBook batteries -- Apple Support

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