Q: Lion - Horrible MacBook Pro Battery Life

Apple - Batteries

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I believe I have a partial fix to this problem:

http://www.barnettech.com/content/battery-problems-partial-fix-osx-lion-macbook- pro-users

Read my blog for more on my experience but here is the essential todo items:

1. Turn off the computer.
2. Hold down Ctrl+Option+shift
3. While holding down these button, press and hold the power button as well.
4. Hold all buttons for at least ten seconds.
5. power back on the computer.

I'm a software architect, and I promise this did not blow up my computer.  I got back 3-4 hours of battery life with very very heavy use.

barnettech wrote:

 

I believe I have a partial fix to this problem:

 

http://www.barnettech.com/content/battery-problems-partial-fix-osx-lion-macbook- pro-users

 

Read my blog for more on my experience but here is the essential todo items:

 

1. Turn off the computer.
2. Hold down Ctrl+Option+shift
3. While holding down these button, press and hold the power button as well.
4. Hold all buttons for at least ten seconds.
5. power back on the computer.

 

I'm a software architect, and I promise this did not blow up my computer.  I got back 3-4 hours of battery life with very very heavy use.

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It has been a week since I downgraded my MBP to Snow Leopard and now it is that awesome computer I used to have, battery of 6-7 hours, no heat at all, no matter how many apps open (have 6 apps running right now). I have used it for a little more than an hour now and it says: 87%, 6:33 hours remaining.

That means the problem is not hardware related, it's really something to do with Lion.

By the way, I saw a lot of people saying nobody uses screen brightness at 50%, well, I do, I never use more than 50%, sometimes I go as far as 20% or 30%, since my eyes just can't stand too much light.

I have a new (one week old)  MBP 2.5 i7 and using video iChat today my fully charged battery lasted just under an 1:15.  Yes that's an hour and fifteen minutes.  My screen was turned up, but really???

Safari was on in the background but only with yahoo mail open.

Another 'not happy camper'...

I so wish you had found the answer!.But I dont think it is as simple as leaving the MBP plugged in longer.

I leave my MBP plugged in al the time at mydesks.I unplug and use battery when in other rooms in my apartment. MBP is fully charged but I still only get apprx 2 hours of battery life with Lion.

Had much more, much better battery life with previous OS.

Agreed.  Leaving it plugged in longer doesn't solve it, but it does get me more like 4-5 hours vs the 2.5 I was getting after only charging for a couple hours.  It rapidly goes to charged, but then needs to trickle charge to reach a full charging cycle. 

My new MBA 13" has the same issue.  The battery time is nowhere near what is promised in Apple's marketing.

Bottom line, there's a real issue that Apple needs to address.  I'm not keeping a $4000 laptop that only gets "okay" battery time.  My 2008 MBP 15 was good enough.

I have a Belkin Play Max installed and the USB Print and Storage Centre process automatically runs at 100% voluntarily without my knowledge until I hear the Macbook Pro/Air's fan roaring.  OS X Lion is quite stable and I don't remember to quit the process.  I asked Belkin technical support but no solution to stop the process from running at Startup.  Is there any solution?

If your MacBook Pro is new, replace it from Apple.

Tonight I turned my screen brightness down to approx 40 %.

Energy saver on battery told me I had 3.29 hours and it does seem I will get something like that.

I started running on battery power at 9:30 PM tonight  and it is now 12:15 AM and I have 43% battery left.

The indicator is dropping by one percent every couple of minutes  o this is no where near what I used to get but it is better than the 90 minutes to two hours I was getting running on more brightness.

This is with no other changes other than brightness. My keyboard is illuminated ( I can't recall how to turn that off )

I am used to a brighter screen but until Apple figures out how to tune up Lion, I guess this a dimmer screen is the way we need to work to get a few hours battery life.

A fix may be on its way:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/316940-apple-takes-the-lead-laptops-ipads-and-ip hones-without-lithium?source=email_rt_article&ifp=0

A fix may be on its way:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/316940-apple-takes-the-lead-laptops-ipads-and-ip hones-without-lithium?source=email_rt_article&ifp=0

Here's hoping that the rumored fuel cell, if and when it arrives in four or five years, works better with the then-current OS than a plain-old battery does with Lion.

Bob Jacobson wrote:

 

Here's hoping that the rumored fuel cell, if and when it arrives in four or five years, works better with the then-current OS than a plain-old battery does with Lion.

...and that we are all still alive to see it.

What I'm reading between the lines:

Apple (like all of us) is aware that current batteries are not sufficient and have fallen behind, compared to the hard- & software development; a problem to which the real (only) solution is a different/better fuel cell/battery.  In the meantime they will try their best to tide us over (with little tweaks), as waiting or slowing down this development is not an option to them.

Redarm wrote:

 

What I'm reading between the lines:

Apple (like all of us) is aware that current batteries are not sufficient and have fallen behind, compared to the hard- & software development; a problem to which the real (only) solution is a different/better fuel cell/battery.  In the meantime they will try their best to tide us over (with little tweaks), as waiting or slowing down this development is not an option to them.

You are reading more than between the lines. No body has a clue as to what the next Lion update will address. It may not even look at the battery issue, seeing that only a few users have the problem. Maybe it will concentrate more on the WiFi problem people are complaining of. Maybe neither due to the fact that only a very , very small amount of users are having an issue.

I would not be talking on Apple's behalf if I was you. Pure speculation. More ridiculous comments.

Good Luck

Did I mention the next Lion update?

And talking about speculation:

"No body has a clue as to what the next Lion update will address"

Means you don't have a clue - there are many that do.  I'm still not saying that 10.7.3 will address it though.

"...only a very , very small amount of users are having an issue"

how do you know?

"I would not be talking on Apple's behalf if I was you."

I didn't notice that I was (as mentioned: reading between the lines - natural deduction, educated guess?).

"More ridiculous comments."

Definitely.