MacBook Pro 2011 Battery Re-Charging Issue

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Weird.

Not weird, it's called a cover up. lol

That's not how class action lawsuits work. By default you are included in the class if you own one of these macbooks. You can choose to opt out, but you don't need to do anything but wait and hope Tomek wins.

I paid a $2500 class-entry fee in Early 2011. It came with a computer.

If anyone's interested, here's the closest thing to a workaround I've come up with based on my testing.

The steps are different depending on the OS you're running.

10.6.8 -

download this program CPUPalette (its part of xcode, and can also be extracted from a 10.6.8 dvd using pacifist) and use it to disable all but one core of your cpu, as well as hyperthreading. no matter how hard you push the system with 3/4 cores disabled, it will not drain. This will not persist through boot and needs to be done every time you restart. You also have to keep cpu palette open.

https://mega.co.nz/#!YUohlQ7a!WDRrImiMN1fxJyrFvfJ8IFCYCfUZLxRGlx_YR_Ktq9A

10.7 and 10.8 -

install xcode from mac app store:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12

Once installed, open up Instruments, and look in it's preferences window. It should have a slider in there to adjust cpu cores and a checkbox to disable hyperthreading as well. Use this the same way as cpupalette to disable cpu cores.

Until apple owns up to their defective design and does something about it, this is all you can do.

I wouldn't hold my breath on that one though.

And the best part is, the suit is probably going to be dismissed by our typical luddite ignoramus anticonsumerist american judges.

Suit is closed, Apple prevailed. And class actions vary, some are indeed opt-out, others are opt-in, did you check to see which this was?

It's truly a shame.

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Prevailed, lol.

The endless battle to crush your most loyal customers has been won!

It was Tomek's right to re-file - any idea if he did? I believe deadline was 20 days from decision, which was Jan. 30, so maybe Feb. 19?

Hope so! Or that someone else refiles.

I have the same problem with my Macbook Pro 13'' 2011, I don't know to fix it.
If I change magsafe from 60w to 85w, Can be work?

and this is my picture. Amperage negative when I charging.

If anybody is still running one of these machines that has this issue, I'm hopeful 10.9 Mavericks will solve this problem for us, since it has such a big focus on energy savings and performance, with any luck this issue will have been looked into during testing and resolved. When I update, I'll run the same tests and report my findings for everyone here.

Great news! It looks like OS X 10.9.0 Mavericks has resolved this issue! I just ran the same kinds of CPU/GPU stress tests that caused my battery to drain, and left them running for several hours, with no battery drain at all! Anyone else who is still dealing with this on the 2011 MacBooks, try Mavericks!

UUnfortunately I am able to drain the battery while on AC with Mavricks. (Late 2011 15" i7 2.2Ghz, 16GB ram, 750GB 7.2k rpm HDD, high res display)

If I run multiple CPU intensive virtual machines in Parallels I can view the energy graph in activity manager drop all the while indicating I'm charging (green).

I think this is an engineering failure in the total sum of all energy consuming parts exceed the supply, luckily the charging circuits allow the battery to help. I would guess this is one reason the battery is not user serviceable?

anyway whatever the cause - it's a hardware issue that an OS change can only mitigate, not resolve.