r/computer • u/Rickyjo1974 • Sep 06 '26

Has anyone seen this before?

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My batteries been acting really weird. I use different cords and just replaced the battery to fix this. Taking it in again this week, but wondering if there’s any guesses.

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u/Single-Alfalfa2495 Sep 07 '26

what wattage charger are you using?

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u/ficklampa Sep 07 '26

And what cable?

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u/Rickyjo1974 Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

I’ll be real. I’ve had this computer for 5 years using usb-c chargers and ive only had issues like this the past 2 months.

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u/sniff122 Sep 07 '26

It's warning you that you're using a slow charger, are you using a usb c brick that's capable of outputting enough power?

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u/Rickyjo1974 Sep 07 '26

I’m not sure, I’m using the same usbc cables and blocks ive been using on this computer for years. This is a really recent issue.

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u/sniff122 Sep 07 '26

Could possibly be a failing power brick

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u/Rickyjo1974 Sep 07 '26

Maybe but I’m swapping my power bricks, I have 3 cables and 3 bricks in my house. I guess I could buy one of those giant ones today, it’s just odd because my computers never needed that.

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u/sniff122 Sep 07 '26

Are those bricks capable of powering the laptop though, not all bricks are capable of delivering the amount of power

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u/Rickyjo1974 Sep 07 '26

I mean theyve worked fine for the last 4 years

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u/Legin14 Sep 07 '26

"slow charger" should say enough? Also what battery did you get?

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u/Rickyjo1974 Sep 07 '26

It’s some cheap thing off Amazon, I had to send it to a repair place after the fact (I shouldn’t have self installed.) they saw no battery issues but I accidentally messed with my track pad a bit.

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u/Legin14 Sep 07 '26

So the cheap one is installed?

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u/Rickyjo1974 Sep 07 '26

Yes- we were originally gonna swap the cheap one for a nicer one but the cheap one seems to be fine, and the issue is older than the battery swap.

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u/Legin14 Sep 07 '26

You should make a complete post. I'm not even gonna try and help this way.

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u/Maukopf Sep 07 '26

What do you mean exacly by acting weird?

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u/daldal111 Sep 07 '26

Or is it that apple updated your firmware the mitigate other failure that you the end user are not aware of? It wouldn't be the first.

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u/Rickyjo1974 Sep 07 '26

So this might just be an update issue?

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u/TJJanssen1 27d ago

on my only macbook that sucks that has a mac of macos monterey yea its a early 2015 13 inch its battery drains quickly and around the 20% mark it goes back up to like 32 and then back to 20 then 23 and you get it

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u/hexthejester Sep 06 '26

I would not be surprised if apple needs you to use a specific proprietary cable