Horrible battery life after 10.8.4 update?

Thanks for the info about the CardStatus app, it has certainly helped my battery life. I'm still not getting as much as I should but I'm now averaging 4 hours instead of 2.5. Thanks for the help!

Still very poor battery life after SMC reset etc... Down 40% in less that an hour of use.

Have just reset to the default Energy Saver settings and cleared some stuff in the Notification center.

Have also looked at Photo Stream....I remember an issue I had previously with Photo Stream where it was constantly trying to update. So I've just turned that off too.

Will update with any further results.

Peace out brothers and sisters!

Can report that Applications open quicker and that startup/shutdown times are quicker after the SMC reset.

I still lose considerable battery life when in sleep mode (10% in 2 hrs! of Sleep time).

Just going through a full recharge and will report back tomorrow - will see if the above Energy setting etc have made a difference

Battery Life back to good!

Did not lose any battery life when asleep - yay!

At 44% after 3 hours

I think the Restore Energy Setting to defaults did the trick....

Cheers

Please enlighten us on how you did it?

My Mac air drops 20% of battery in STANDBY mode within like...8 hours????? used to be like 9+% for the same period.

(Or is apple doing this on deliberately so we can buy the new mac air with 13 hours of battery? )

@ivanfromjohannesburg...

Did you not read my previous posts?...

Reset SMC, restored energy settings (in preferences) to default... All good

I did actually, I thought the restored energy settings was something else......

unfortunately, these did not work for me 😟

Fair enough...

I was back to 6.5 hrs today.

The restore to default energy settings helped to improve my battery life in standby/sleep (lost only 3% in 6 hours), but the battery life during usage is still terrible. I'm only getting 4 1/2 hours max. Thanks for the suggestion!

Can still report that my MBP has much better battery performance... back to where it was out of the box.

Photo streaming still off

Adjustments in Notification Centre settings

Reset Energy Settings to 'default' in Preferences --> Energy Saver

All good after a week of use - even had a comment from a customer today saying he was surprised my laptop lasted as long as it did (4 hrs straight from 60%)

I am a tech and I have seen this on several of our computers recently deployed with 10.8.4. Try disabling wireless before putting your laptop to sleep and see if that helps. Confirmed on two laptops so far on my end.

I was talking to Jerry and he took a redundancy package and has moved on.

Pete

I think he [Jerry] was getting run down and a little flat...he shouldn't have updated!

Can report after three weeks of solid use, I'm back to 7+ hrs of battery life since the 10.8.4 update.

It's got to have been the Default energy settings reset...and possibly turning off Photo Stream

Cheers 😉

Dunno. Never had the problem. Glad you solved your issue.

Pete

WonderWizard's tip worked for me (Default energy settings reset...and turning off Photo Stream).

I'm about 2 and half weeks in and getting 6+ hours on battery life (MBPro 13-inch, Early 2011).

Thanks!