I just received a little over one hour battery life on my Macbook Air from a full charge. What gives?
MacBook Air (13-INCH, MID 2011), iOS 6.1.1
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Your battery may be damaged. Open System Information app, select "Power" button in the sidebar and copy here "Charge Information" and "Health Information"
Looks ok, here's the info. Says "Charging: No" because I have the power supply connected with curently a full charge (green light, not yellow on the magnetic connector).
Charge Information:
Charge Remaining (mAh): 6014
Fully Charged: Yes
Charging: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 6014
Health Information:
Cycle Count: 127
Condition: Normal
Your battery is perfect.
Then, there must be a process that it's eating all your battery. Open Activity Monitor and choose "All Processes" above "Show", in the toolbar. After that, go to File menu > Save, open the saved file and copy its content here
Thanks! Here you go. I think it's my VirtualBox virtual machine runing Windows 8 Pro?
Active Memory: 518.5 MB
Free Memory: 17.1 MB
Wired Memory: 2.98 GB
Used Memory: 3.98 GB
Inactive Memory: 507.9 MB
Total VM: 232.32 GB
Number of processes: 96
PID Process Name User CPU Real Mem Virtual Mem
0 kernel_task root 2.0 318.0 MB 5.37 GB
1 launchd root 0.0 1.7 MB 2.36 GB
11 UserEventAgent root 0.0 2.4 MB 2.37 GB
12 kextd root 0.0 2.4 MB 2.35 GB
14 notifyd root 0.0 1.2 MB 2.36 GB
15 securityd root 0.0 4.8 MB 2.37 GB
16 diskarbitrationd root 0.0 1.2 MB 2.35 GB
17 configd root 0.0 2.8 MB 2.35 GB
18 powerd root 0.0 1.5 MB 2.37 GB
19 syslogd root 0.0 972 KB 2.36 GB
20 distnoted root 0.0 1.1 MB 2.37 GB
21 cfprefsd root 0.0 1.2 MB 2.35 GB
22 opendirectoryd root 0.0 6.0 MB 2.39 GB
32 coreservicesd root 0.2 7.6 MB 2.38 GB
34 fseventsd root 0.0 2.2 MB 2.38 GB
35 networkd _networkd 0.0 788 KB 2.35 GB
36 mDNSResponder _mdnsrespo 0.0 1.8 MB 2.36 GB
53 ntpd root 0.0 380 KB 2.35 GB
54 cupsd root 0.0 2.6 MB 2.36 GB
56 warmd nobody 0.0 1.3 MB 2.35 GB
57 usbmuxd _usbmuxd 0.0 1.2 MB 2.36 GB
59 SystemStarter root 0.0 376 KB 2.35 GB
61 stackshot root 0.0 844 KB 2.35 GB
62 SleepServicesD root 0.0 1.2 MB 2.35 GB
64 revisiond root 0.0 1.0 MB 2.38 GB
69 mtmfs root 0.0 3.6 MB 2.39 GB
70 mtmd root 0.0 4.6 MB 2.37 GB
71 mds root 0.0 83.5 MB 2.92 GB
74 loginwindow xxxx.xxxx 0.0 6.3 MB 2.48 GB
75 locationd _locationd 0.0 2.3 MB 2.38 GB
76 KernelEventAgent root 0.0 572 KB 2.33 GB
77 kdc root 0.0 1.7 MB 2.35 GB
79 hidd root 0.5 1.4 MB 2.35 GB
81 dynamic_pager root 0.0 428 KB 2.32 GB
84 appleeventsd _eppc 0.0 1.1 MB 2.37 GB
88 autofsd root 0.0 776 KB 2.35 GB
89 apsd root 0.0 3.8 MB 2.37 GB
90 aosnotifyd root 0.0 1.8 MB 2.37 GB
96 WindowServer _windowser 4.8 61.8 MB 2.83 GB
97 netbiosd _netbios 0.0 1.8 MB 2.38 GB
197 CVMServer root 0.0 812 KB 2.38 GB
215 logind root 0.0 28 KB 2.35 GB
234 launchd xxxx.xxxx 0.0 772 KB 2.36 GB
237 UserEventAgent xxxx.xxxx 0.0 2.6 MB 2.38 GB
238 distnoted xxxx.xxxx 0.0 2.9 MB 2.37 GB
240 cfprefsd xxxx.xxxx 0.0 1.3 MB 2.35 GB
246 Dock xxxx.xxxx 0.0 16.0 MB 2.45 GB
247 talagent xxxx.xxxx 0.0 1.8 MB 2.39 GB
248 SystemUIServer xxxx.xxxx 0.0 17.3 MB 2.49 GB
249 Finder xxxx.xxxx 0.0 15.8 MB 2.51 GB
250 coreaudiod _coreaudio 0.0 1.8 MB 2.36 GB
251 pboard xxxx.xxxx 0.0 44 KB 2.32 GB
254 usernoted xxxx.xxxx 0.0 1.0 MB 2.37 GB
258 Notification Center xxxx.xxxx 0.0 6.2 MB 2.43 GB
261 imagent xxxx.xxxx 0.0 664 KB 2.37 GB
270 1PasswordAgent xxxx.xxxx 0.0 3.5 MB 2.40 GB
277 iTunes Helper xxxx.xxxx 0.0 648 KB 2.37 GB
279 fontd xxxx.xxxx 0.0 1.8 MB 2.40 GB
280 Dropbox xxxx.xxxx 0.0 15.9 MB 792.0 MB
288 filecoordinationd root 0.0 1.3 MB 2.35 GB
290 NetworkBrowserAgent xxxx.xxxx 0.0 1.3 MB 2.37 GB
291 Photo Stream xxxx.xxxx 0.0 3.8 MB 2.40 GB
297 lsboxd xxxx.xxxx 0.0 1.3 MB 2.38 GB
307 com.apple.dock.extra xxxx.xxxx 0.0 4.8 MB 2.41 GB
325 Image Capture Extension xxxx.xxxx 0.0 2.1 MB 2.40 GB
326 dbfseventsd root 0.0 64 KB 582.7 MB
327 dbfseventsd root 0.0 228 KB 590.7 MB
328 dbfseventsd xxxx.xxxx 0.0 56 KB 582.7 MB
355 AppleSpell.service xxxx.xxxx 0.0 2.4 MB 2.37 GB
438 check_afp root 0.0 328 KB 2.35 GB
643 Mail xxxx.xxxx 0.0 51.6 MB 3.55 GB
645 librariand xxxx.xxxx 0.0 1,016 KB 2.38 GB
646 ubd xxxx.xxxx 0.0 5.5 MB 2.38 GB
722 diskimages-helper xxxx.xxxx 0.0 4.5 MB 2.36 GB
726 hdiejectd root 0.0 280 KB 2.35 GB
740 syspolicyd root 0.0 144 KB 2.37 GB
789 Safari xxxx.xxxx 0.0 74.2 MB 3.68 GB
791 Safari Web Content xxxx.xxxx 1.2 140.1 MB 3.80 GB
1176 AirPort Base Station Agen xxxx.xxxx 0.0 56 KB 2.35 GB
1182 ocspd root 0.0 796 KB 2.38 GB
1320 Flash Player (Safari Inte xxxx.xxxx 0.3 12.5 MB 3.55 GB
1321 taskgated root 0.0 1.6 MB 2.37 GB
1332 VirtualBox xxxx.xxxx 0.4 24.0 MB 2.50 GB
1335 VBoxXPCOMIPCD xxxx.xxxx 0.2 864 KB 2.33 GB
1337 VBoxSVC xxxx.xxxx 0.4 5.3 MB 2.39 GB
1338 VirtualBox VM xxxx.xxxx 20.6 2.19 GB 4.72 GB
1361 mdworker xxxx.xxxx 0.0 8.2 MB 2.36 GB
1362 xpcd xxxx.xxxx 0.0 4.6 MB 2.35 GB
1365 pbs xxxx.xxxx 0.0 4.0 MB 2.35 GB
1367 Activity Monitor xxxx.xxxx 5.6 23.1 MB 2.45 GB
1369 activitymonitord root 0.5 1.4 MB 2.33 GB
1370 CVMCompiler xxxx.xxxx 0.0 22.5 MB 2.38 GB
1371 launchd _spotlight 0.0 848 KB 2.36 GB
1374 distnoted _spotlight 0.0 1.5 MB 2.37 GB
1375 cfprefsd _spotlight 0.0 1.1 MB 2.35 GB
1376 AppleIDAuthAgent xxxx.xxxx 0.0 2.0 MB 2.35 GB
VirtualBox is the problem. Now, when you have to use VirtualBox, I recommend you to connect your Mac to its power source, because you are wasting your battery life. Also, VirtualBox is an app that consumes a lot of CPU and memory as you can see.
As I told you, don't stop using VirtualBox, but use it with your Mac connected to the power source. Then, disconnect it when you want to do other things with your Mac (and make sure you have closed VirtualBox and its virtual machine)
Thanks! I'll do as you recommend. I appreciate your time and help.
You are welcome
1-Hour Battery Life?!
