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Originally Posted by Zaroff
I've read in some other thread that it's to be "expected" since it's part of battery calibration. Really? I've owned many more portable/rechargeable devices than I care to remember, from cellphones to laptops to iThings to DAPs etc, and I've never met some such battery "conditioning".
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Originally Posted by Zaroff
I understand what you mean, but as much as a lot of devices do have battery recalibration option (which I do regularly on a Macbook for example), wild fluctuations all over the place the way KA1 does, while in use, I've yet to see.
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When I last updated the battery firmware on my laptop, the % and/or hours remaining (depending on which I had set to display) jumped all over the place until I did the battery gauge reset. I had 2 or 3 virtual machines open and the remaining run time jumped from 30 minutes to 3 hours and then back to 30 minutes within a 5 minute period. What I've seen on a KA1 is more in the of a fast drop in a short period rather than wild fluctuations which would suggest a swing in both directions.
OTOH, I do find the discrepancy between your two posts quoted above to be a bit odd. You've never seen any battery recalibration or 'met some such battery "conditioning"' as you referred to it and you do it regularly on a MacBook?