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Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate?

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate?
Date 2015-01-17 21:50 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <ci03p7FoeitU4@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2015-01-17, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On my Mac mini (mid-2011) at work, I use a small Apple wireless 
> (Bluetooth) keyboard (no keypad). For several weeks, its upgraded Mac OS 
> X 10.9.5 (all and since 10.7.5) has been showing my battery life going 
> down until 1% (14% was the warning one that alerted me, but I didn't 
> change the battery yet). It has been stuck at 1% for several weeks so 
> far and the keyboard still works fine. It seems like the battery power 
> is inaccurate? Is there a way to get an accurate reading? I'll change 
> its battery once the keyboard starts acting weird/odd. ;)
>
> Thank you in advance. :)

I've never found it to be all that accurate, especially when using
rechargeable batteries. And I don't think it matters much anyway. When
the batteries die, you'll know it and you can replace them. Advanced
warning isn't important.

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JR

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Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-17 12:52 -0800
  Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-17 21:50 +0000
    Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-17 17:55 -0800
      Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-18 16:14 +0000
    Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2015-01-18 09:30 +0100
      Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-18 16:16 +0000
        Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2015-01-18 22:03 +0100
          Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-18 16:04 -0500
          Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-18 23:21 +0000
            Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-18 18:32 -0500
              Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2015-01-19 13:37 +0100
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-19 16:37 +0000
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2015-01-19 21:37 +0100
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-19 16:06 -0500
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam@ab-katrinedal.dk (Niels Jørgen Kruse) - 2015-01-20 13:16 +0100
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-20 16:52 -0500
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-21 06:16 +0000
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-20 09:15 +1300
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-19 16:06 -0500
                Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-19 21:03 +0000
  Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net> - 2015-01-18 09:33 -0500
    Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-19 09:03 +1300
    Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-01-18 14:07 -0700
  Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? David Fritzinger <email@domain.com> - 2015-01-26 10:46 -0500
    Re: Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-01-26 08:00 -0800

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