I replaced the battery in my old clamshell iBook (running OS 10.2.8 if it makes any difference) after dealing with it's slow decline to holding no charge at all about a month ago. The new battery (3rd party battery) worked wonderfully, except that after the first time I ran it down, it only charged to 6% according to the OS, but it thought it was going to run for about 6 hours on that charge, which it did. I figured, ok, the power manager is confused and i'll just run it down and reset the power manager. But, here's where the problems start. Now it won't charge more than about a minute worth of charge(sometimes it sleeps, sometimes it just shuts down), and the time remaining is perpetually "calculating". I've tried all the basic things, reseting the power manager, going into the open firmware and reseting the nvram and all, I even tried to use apple's battery update thing, but it says that my system doesn't require this software. I'm pretty sure it's not the charging circuits in the computer that are the problem, because the old one was truly dead (5 years old, and I tested the cells inside). One unusual thing that i noticed is that the ring around the power adapter plug stays green until the computer is shut down or goes to sleep, then it turns orange. I'm using a third party power adapter, because i went through three of the "yo-yo" style apple ones. Could the power adapter be the problem? Does anyone have any other ideas?
Battery problem
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