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Is my Apple wireless keyboard's battery life inaccurate?

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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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#68505

On 1/17/15, 3:52 PM, Ant 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. :)

Read your Old Testament, dude. Oil lamp burning for eight days even 
though it only had enough oil for one.day....

-- 
"My name is Lieutenant Aldo Raine and I'm putting together a special 
team, and I need me eight soldiers."

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#68514

In article <m9gg80$79o$1@news.albasani.net>, Aldo Raine
<apache@scalpem.net> wrote:
> On 1/17/15, 3:52 PM, Ant 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. :)
> 
> Read your Old Testament, dude. Oil lamp burning for eight days even 
> though it only had enough oil for one.day....

Only because someone else was playing a trick on them by adding more
oil each day.

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#68519

Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net> wrote:

> Read your Old Testament, dude. Oil lamp burning for eight days even 
> though it only had enough oil for one.day....

And the Psalms: "Thou hast annointed my keyboard with oil, and afflicted
mine enemies with kernel panics." 

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#69023

On 2015-01-17 20:52:02 +0000, Ant said:

> 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. :)

It isn't only the Apple Wireless Keyboard that gies inaccurate battery 
information. The Magic Trackpad is not any better. Right now, I've been 
using my MT for almost a week since I got the warning that my battery 
is low. In fact, it's been at 9% for over 4 days now, with a jump to 
40% on one of those days. I think I'm going to keep going until the 
batteries really run out, to get an idea of how inaccurate the battery 
monitoring really is.

Don't know if this matters, but the MT was bought with my mid-2010 iMac 
(27", 3.6 GHz i5) It is running Yosemite, but I suspect this has been 
an ongoing problem, since I have been wondering why battery life for my 
MT was so low ever since I bought the iMac. 

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#69024

In article <ma5ng6$q1d$1@dont-email.me>,
 David Fritzinger <email@domain.com> wrote:

> On 2015-01-17 20:52:02 +0000, Ant said:
> 
> > 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. :)
> 
> It isn't only the Apple Wireless Keyboard that gies inaccurate battery 
> information. The Magic Trackpad is not any better. Right now, I've been 
> using my MT for almost a week since I got the warning that my battery 
> is low. In fact, it's been at 9% for over 4 days now, with a jump to 
> 40% on one of those days. I think I'm going to keep going until the 
> batteries really run out, to get an idea of how inaccurate the battery 
> monitoring really is.
> 
> Don't know if this matters, but the MT was bought with my mid-2010 iMac 
> (27", 3.6 GHz i5) It is running Yosemite, but I suspect this has been 
> an ongoing problem, since I have been wondering why battery life for my 
> MT was so low ever since I bought the iMac. 

I gave my wired chicklet keyboard to a friend who hated the wireless 
keyboard that came with her iMac.  She had the same problem with battery 
life you're seeing.  All she did was change them or shut the thing off 
when ever she shut down her system.  Didn't seem to matter much.  And 
she used the Coppertop Duracells from CostCo.  Switching to Everready 
didn't help.

I don't use my Magic Trackpad very much and it still has the batteries I 
put in over 2 years ago.  But it spends most of it's time OFF.

I'm running 10.8 and my friend is running 10.6.

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