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The April 2014 update of Apple's 13" MacBook Air features refreshed dual-core i5 and i7 processors, plus slightly increased battery performance.

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Why am I getting a service recommended message after changing the batt

So I purchased a battery replacement from ifixit for my macbook air 2014 13”, I changed it without issues, but now I’m getting the ‘service battery’ warning, how do I get rid of it?

This is what I’m looking at:

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And here’s after the complete calibration cycle:

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Let’s get a better view of things, install this gem of an app! CoconutBattery take a snapshot of the apps main window and post it here for us to see Adding images to an existing question

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Hi Dan, please see image attached. sorry for the late reply, I was calibrating the battery as per the instructions, still a last 100% charge to go...

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Andres - Take another snapshot and post it after you've finished the calibration.

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Hi Dan, see above, still getting the service message.

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Contact the iFixit Store for an exchange iFixit Customer Support

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That’s going to be a problem because I’m not in the States anymore. The thing is, this is the second battery I’m having this problem with, and I’m guessing it must be something other than the battery, maybe hardware related or software, I don’t know. Before, I had already tried resetting the SMC and all those options to no avail… any other suggestions?

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@Andres Morales - Sorry, that's a big wrinkle!

Then you'll need to get a new battery locally to get going now. Do you have a friend who is able to hand carry the battery back to the states and then forward on to iFixit for you? If you do then that would be a good start.

You'll still need to offer iFixit an address to ship the replacement battery. At least that way you get a replacement even though it's an ocean away.

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