jya Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 Hi I've installed 10.4.6 on a Sony Vaio SZ (dual-core 1.83Ghz, GMA950, 945GM chipset) which is very similar to the macbook hardware. No improvement with 10.4.7. I have also tried with 10.4.4 and no improvement. After just about 30 minutes running on battery, the battery has about 20% left of its original charge. There's definitely something wrong there. Also with the extra patch to activate the battery status in the menu bar, the value displayed isn't being refreshed once the machine has booted. It always display the same thing. However, in the System Profiler, MacOS detects properly what kind of battery I have, its capacity and weither the AC adaptor is plugged or not. I'm not sure if those two problems are related but it's very annoying. Also I can't put the machine to sleep, the screen turns black but the HD and CPU fan are still active, only the screen is turned off. After that, I can't restart the machine I have to hard restart it. Any ideas what I could do to fix those issues? Thank you JY Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22094-very-poor-battery-life-with-104467/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanis Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 My Dell Inspiron 6400 works just fine, gave me like 3:40 in battery saving mode. 1 core disabled, tho. Have you tried another installation, seems like (JaS 10.4.6 + PPF1) + JaS 10.4.7 update + powermanagement.bundle works like a charm on notebooks, at least on mine. Even sleep (both from apple menu and closing the lid) is working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22094-very-poor-battery-life-with-104467/#findComment-145997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jya Posted July 17, 2006 Author Share Posted July 17, 2006 My Dell Inspiron 6400 works just fine, gave me like 3:40 in battery saving mode. 1 core disabled, tho. Have you tried another installation, seems like (JaS 10.4.6 + PPF1) + JaS 10.4.7 update + I have Jas 10.4.6 DVD + the JaS 10.4.7. What is the PPF1 ? I have also tried the Maxxuss patched 10.4.4 DVD which is just the same. I don't think using 10.4.4, 10.4.6 or 10.4.7 will do a difference though as they all seem to use the same extension and kernel (Darwin 8.4.1) I have both core working and recognised in macos , I can't even disable one core in the BIOS... JY Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22094-very-poor-battery-life-with-104467/#findComment-146124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanis Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 The PPF1 is a patch file, it was posted on demonoid, months ago. With that you could patch the JaS installation, even though I thought the JaS disc was messed up since I couldn't install it on my desktop, but I tried on my laptop and it worked wonderfully. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22094-very-poor-battery-life-with-104467/#findComment-146620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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