Michael Empric

Q: Lion - Horrible MacBook Pro Battery Life

After upgrading to Lion, my MacBook Pro battery life has been severly affected. After 1.5 hours of light web browsing, my battery has decreased to 40% from 100% after charging all night.

 

Notes: Spotlight completed indexing the hard drive over night, and the laptop remained plugged in charging. The fans seem to be running normally, not at a higher rate. The backlight is at 50% brightness.

 

Thoughts?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB Ram

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 7:02 AM

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  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Dec 1, 2011 5:09 PM in response to Rayced
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    Dec 1, 2011 5:09 PM in response to Rayced

    Rayced wrote:

     

    Csound1 wrote:

     

    Rayced wrote:

     

    @redarm: It's under "Diagnostic and Usage Messages".

    My apologies for the wrong translation back to english.

    Post a screenshot please.

    I can send you a photo of my flighing cow instead. Do you want it?

    Why won't you help the people who have asked you to?

  • by Rayced,

    Rayced Rayced Dec 1, 2011 5:18 PM in response to Csound1
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    Dec 1, 2011 5:18 PM in response to Csound1

    Csound1 wrote:

     

    Why won't you help the people who have asked you to?

     

    Cause I ought make some winged cheese now.

    Do you want some?

    BTW aren't you the one owning 47 macs with the same Lion image deployed on all of 'em and none suffers from a battery drain? Am I short on memory?

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Dec 1, 2011 5:20 PM in response to Rayced
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    Dec 1, 2011 5:20 PM in response to Rayced

    Rayced wrote:

     

    Csound1 wrote:

     

    Why won't you help the people who have asked you to?

     

    Cause I ought make some winged cheese now.

    Do you want some?

    BTW aren't you the one owning 47 mac with the same Lion image deployed on all of 'em and none suffers from a battery drain? Am I short on memory?

    You are most unhelpful, refusing to post the information you claim to have, I am thinking that you don't have it to post.

  • by mulligans missus,

    mulligans missus mulligans missus Dec 1, 2011 5:22 PM in response to Rayced
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    Dec 1, 2011 5:22 PM in response to Rayced

    Rayced wrote:

     

    Yes it is in there. Look for "powerd".

    It also where you have to look at to diagnose what makes a mac slow on going into sleep mode or waking up. You'll see entries for processes that might hang for a while. You'll find the which has the longest hanging time and that's the responsible for the long time to wake/sleep of your mac.

    I'm not inventing anything here, it's well documented on many basic Mac  maintenace sites, books, etc.

    I still cannot find the logs you talk of. Nothing comes up on a Google search. Can you tell me what folder these Power Usage logs are in and a simple description of how to get to them?

     

    Thanks

  • by Rayced,

    Rayced Rayced Dec 1, 2011 5:37 PM in response to mulligans missus
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    Dec 1, 2011 5:37 PM in response to mulligans missus

    I am sorry that you are not able to use google to search for powerd logs

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Dec 1, 2011 5:43 PM in response to Rayced
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    Dec 1, 2011 5:43 PM in response to Rayced

    Rayced wrote:

     

    I am sorry that you are not able to use google to search for powerd logs

     

    Here's the Google Search result for 'powerd logs'

     

    Now everyone will be able to see what it is you found.

  • by Rayced,

    Rayced Rayced Dec 1, 2011 5:43 PM in response to Csound1
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    Dec 1, 2011 5:43 PM in response to Csound1

    That is a terrible thing to say to someone like me that was so kind with you. I have also offered you to share my cheese.

    You are a very mean person. Why do I want to help you?

  • by Rayced,

    Rayced Rayced Dec 1, 2011 5:45 PM in response to Csound1
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    Dec 1, 2011 5:45 PM in response to Csound1

    My mom told me not to accept candies from the unknown. Figure out a link from a mean person.

  • by mulligans missus,

    mulligans missus mulligans missus Dec 1, 2011 5:50 PM in response to Csound1
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    Dec 1, 2011 5:50 PM in response to Csound1

    Csound1 wrote:

     

    Rayced wrote:

     

    I am sorry that you are not able to use google to search for powerd logs

     

    Here's the Google Search result for 'powerd logs'

     

    Now everyone will be able to see what it is you found.

    That's what I mean, nothing comes up at any Mac site like he says. Trying to fix an issue here. I thought his advice may point to a solution, but just cows and cheese or something? If these logs exist, let us all know where they are so people here can find them and check them. Hopefully this time you can back up your log claims with some facts, which you have refused to do so far. Why? Do you not really have them from all your 'testing'? Is that why your score indicates you have only ever helped one person ever?

     

    Yes I know, cows and cheese and don't have to tell anybody anything.

     

    Thank You

  • by Rayced,

    Rayced Rayced Dec 1, 2011 5:58 PM in response to Redarm
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    Dec 1, 2011 5:58 PM in response to Redarm

    Sud you find it? If not probably you have to turn on the option to send out to Apple your reports of usage and diagnostic (should be in the privacy prefs panel). That is the only thing I can think about if these logs doesn't exist in your console.

  • by mulligans missus,

    mulligans missus mulligans missus Dec 1, 2011 6:03 PM in response to Rayced
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    Dec 1, 2011 6:03 PM in response to Rayced

    Rayced wrote:

     

    Sud you find it? If not probably you have to turn on the option to send out to Apple your reports of usage and diagnostic (should be in the privacy prefs panel). That is the only thing I can think about if these logs doesn't exist in your console.

    So where are the privacy prefs panels? I am using Lion 10.7.2 I have reports to Apple turned on always. But they don't log as you suggest with Power Usage. There are no reports in Console.

  • by Rayced,

    Rayced Rayced Dec 1, 2011 6:04 PM in response to mulligans missus
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    Dec 1, 2011 6:04 PM in response to mulligans missus

    Aren't you the one suggesting me a shrink and who called me a Moron? I am just giving you what you want from me.

    Have fun with your google search. If you can afford to buy a laptop The certanely you can also afford to buy some books and do your homework.

  • by Rayced,

    Rayced Rayced Dec 1, 2011 6:07 PM in response to mulligans missus
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    Dec 1, 2011 6:07 PM in response to mulligans missus

    Try to turn back on locate. Probably that is a little more useful than Spotlight when troubleshooting your Mac.

  • by Jon Baumgartner,

    Jon Baumgartner Jon Baumgartner Dec 1, 2011 6:07 PM in response to Rayced
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    Dec 1, 2011 6:07 PM in response to Rayced

    Can you guys please, please, please stop with the bickering and name-calling? It's not helping anything, it's not funny, and it's really irritating.

  • by mulligans missus,

    mulligans missus mulligans missus Dec 1, 2011 6:14 PM in response to Jon Baumgartner
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    Dec 1, 2011 6:14 PM in response to Jon Baumgartner

    Jon Baumgartner wrote:

     

    Can you guys please, please, please stop with the bickering and name-calling? It's not helping anything, it's not funny, and it's really irritating.

    I agree Jon. People here were trying the beta version or developers version of 10.7.3  I was hoping to hear back with how their testing had gone, but just keep getting Rayhead treating the whole place like his own personal Facebook page. I was hoping for some answers, but obviously people have been turned off this thread now with cheese and flying cows. I will move on to other forums and see if I can get some sort of sensible comments on this battery drain issue that is so prevelant.

     

    Happy Computing

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