Macbook Air 11" mid 2013 battery last 3 hours

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Macbook Air 11" mid 2013 battery last 3 hours

Hello everyone,

I'm just going crazy with my new Macbook Air 11" 128GB, 8GB RAM. My very worried about my battery life. It just last 3 hours with a complete charge. I've already read that Dropbox and Skype drains battery but I'm comparing with another MBA as same as mine and it last for 10 hours with the same usage of apps.

There you go the output from Etrecheck:

Hardware Information:

MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2013)

MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir6,1

1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores

8 GB RAM

Video Information:

Intel HD Graphics 5000 - VRAM: 1024 MB

Startup Items:

VirtualBox - Path: /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox

System Software:

OS X 10.8.5 (12F45) - Uptime: 0 days 0:21:6

Disk Information:

APPLE SSD TS0128F disk0 : (121.33 GB)

disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Deneve (disk0s2) /: 120.47 GB (38.55 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

USB Information:

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Logitech USB Receiver

FireWire Information:

Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Kernel Extensions:

com.Logitech.Control Center.HID

com.Logitech.Unifying.HID Driver

com.protech.NoSleep (1.3.3)

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.2.18)

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.2.18)

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.2.18)

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.2.18)

Problem System Launch Daemons:

Problem System Launch Agents:

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.orbicule.uc.plist

[loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_service.plist

[loaded] com.timesoftware.timemachineeditor.backup-auto.plist

[loaded] com.timesoftware.timemachineeditor.helper.plist

Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.Logitech.Control Center.Daemon.plist

[loaded] com.orbicule.UCAgent.plist

[loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer.plist

[loaded] com.teamviewer.teamviewer_desktop.plist

User Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

[loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist

[not loaded] org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist

[failed] ws.agile.1PasswordAgent.plist

User Login Items:

iTunesHelper

DelayedLauncher

Airmail

3rd Party Preference Panes:

Logitech Control Center

Internet Plug-ins:

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

User Internet Plug-ins:

Bad Fonts:

None

Top Processes by CPU:

49% Skype

15% coreaudiod

2% WindowServer

1% EtreCheck

1% AppleCameraAssistant

0% Airmail

0% fontd

0% uc

0% mds

0% SystemUIServer

Top Processes by Memory:

147 MB Google Chrome

139 MB Skype

115 MB Airmail

98 MB Google Chrome Helper

82 MB mds

82 MB Dropbox

74 MB WindowServer

49 MB Collective

49 MB Dock

41 MB com.apple.ShareKitHelper

Virtual Memory Statistics

4.55 GB Free RAM

2.41 GB Active RAM

347 MB Inactive RAM

714 MB Wired RAM

799 MB Page-ins

0 B Page-outs

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Oct 21, 2013 5:12 PM

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Answer 1

Linc Davis

Level 10

209,673 points

Oct 21, 2013 7:26 PM in response to Savyna

Runaway applications can shorten battery runtime, affect performance, and increase heat and fan activity

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Answer 2

Savyna Author

Level 1

10 points

Oct 22, 2013 4:09 AM in response to Linc Davis

I don't see anything that can provoke such a bad preformance, nothing is keeping the CPU busy. Skype jumps to 50% cpu usage max when I'm using video conference, but anything else, even if I'm using Virtual box with Windows 7. Fans runs normally. I don't know what to do.

Here is the Activity Monitor output:

Active	Memory:	2.08	GB
Free	Memory:	4.87	GB
Wired	Memory:	661.8	MB
Used	Memory:	3.13	GB
Inactive	Memory:	410.9	MB
Total	VM:	319.5	GB
Number	of	processes:	146
PID	Process Name	User	CPU	Real Mem	Virtual Mem
0	kernel_task	root	3.4	477.1	MB	6.46	GB
1	launchd	root	0	2.2	MB	2.36	GB
11	UserEventAgent	root	0	4.2	MB	2.37	GB
12	kextd	root	0	10.4	MB	2.36	GB
13	taskgated	root	0	5	MB	2.37	GB
14	notifyd	root	0	1.8	MB	2.36	GB
15	securityd	root	0	10.5	MB	2.38	GB
16	diskarbitrationd	root	0	1.8	MB	2.35	GB
17	configd	root	0.4	4.4	MB	2.36	GB
18	powerd	root	0.1	2	MB	2.37	GB
19	syslogd	root	0	1.2	MB	2.36	GB
20	distnoted	root	0	2.2	MB	2.37	GB
21	cfprefsd	root	0	1.8	MB	2.35	GB
22	opendirectoryd	root	0	10.9	MB	2.38	GB
31	coreservicesd	root	0	29.7	MB	2.42	GB
33	fseventsd	root	0.1	4.4	MB	2.39	GB
34	networkd	_networkd	0	1.2	MB	2.35	GB
35	mDNSResponder	_mdnsresp	0	5.1	MB	2.38	GB
50	awacsd	root	0	7.6	MB	2.37	GB
54	wdhelper	root	0	4.4	MB	2.33	GB
55	warmd	nobody	0	9.1	MB	2.36	GB
56	usbmuxd	_usbmuxd	0	2.6	MB	2.36	GB
59	stackshot	root	0	1.2	MB	2.35	GB
60	SleepServicesD	root	0	2	MB	2.35	GB
62	revisiond	root	0	2.8	MB	2.37	GB
67	netbiosd	_netbios	0	4.1	MB	2.38	GB
68	mds	root	0.4	60.1	MB	2.78	GB
71	loginwindow	savyna	0	18.3	MB	2.46	GB
72	locationd	_locationd	0	7.8	MB	2.38	GB
73	KernelEventAgent	root	0	1	MB	2.34	GB
74	kdc	root	0	2.9	MB	2.35	GB
76	hidd	root	1.3	2.9	MB	2.35	GB
78	dynamic_pager	root	0	784	KB	2.32	GB
81	appleeventsd	_eppc	0	3.1	MB	2.37	GB
85	autofsd	root	0	1.9	MB	2.35	GB
86	apsd	root	0	8.2	MB	2.37	GB
87	TeamViewer_Service	root	0	9.3	MB	663.4	MB
88	uc	root	0.6	8.8	MB	2.38	GB
91	ntpd	root	0	1.3	MB	2.34	GB
94	SystemStarter	root	0	1,016	KB	2.34	GB
96	aosnotifyd	root	0	7.9	MB	2.37	GB
97	socketfilterfw	root	0	9.6	MB	2.37	GB
100	WindowServer	_windowse	6.4	64.8	MB	2.81	GB
102	ocspd	root	0	15.6	MB	2.36	GB
145	CVMServer	root	0	1.6	MB	2.39	GB
154	launchd	_windowse	0	860	KB	2.36	GB
181	cfprefsd	_windowse	0	1	MB	2.35	GB
211	logind	root	0	1.7	MB	2.34	GB
224	launchd	savyna	0	2.1	MB	2.36	GB
226	cfprefsd	savyna	0	4	MB	2.35	GB
232	UserEventAgent	savyna	0	12.3	MB	2.39	GB
233	distnoted	savyna	0	5.6	MB	2.37	GB
241	Dock	savyna	0	34.1	MB	2.46	GB
242	talagent	savyna	0	7.3	MB	2.39	GB
243	SystemUIServer	savyna	0.5	20	MB	2.46	GB
244	Finder	savyna	0	47.3	MB	2.59	GB
245	pboard	savyna	0	948	KB	2.32	GB
246	coreaudiod	_coreaudio	0	8.3	MB	2.36	GB
249	Photo Stream	savyna	0	16	MB	2.4	GB
250	1Password mini	savyna	0	28.5	MB	2.46	GB
251	usernoted	savyna	0	4.7	MB	2.37	GB
255	Notification Center	savyna	0	15.8	MB	2.43	GB
259	imagent	savyna	0	6.1	MB	2.37	GB
260	helpd	savyna	0	2.1	MB	2.37	GB
262	AppleIDAuthAgent	savyna	0	4.2	MB	2.37	GB
263	CalendarAgent	savyna	0	30.3	MB	2.39	GB
267	TeamViewer_Desktop	savyna	0	9.1	MB	708.2	MB
268	TeamViewer	savyna	0	21.1	MB	753	MB
269	UCAgent	savyna	0.1	7.2	MB	2.44	GB
270	Logitech Control Center	savyna	0	7.8	MB	2.4	GB
276	TISwitcher	savyna	0	6	MB	2.39	GB
277	accountsd	savyna	0	5.3	MB	2.37	GB
279	iTunes Helper	savyna	0	3.9	MB	2.35	GB
281	Airmail	savyna	0.1	102	MB	3.62	GB
283	filecoordinationd	root	0	4.9	MB	2.35	GB
285	xpcd	savyna	0	7.1	MB	2.37	GB
286	NetworkBrowserAgent	savyna	0	5.8	MB	2.36	GB
287	fontd	savyna	0	5.3	MB	2.4	GB
291	tccd	savyna	0	4.7	MB	2.37	GB
296	imklaunchagent	savyna	0	3.3	MB	2.36	GB
297	Dictation	savyna	0	14	MB	2.39	GB
300	com.apple.dock.extra	savyna	0	16.4	MB	2.4	GB
302	lsboxd	savyna	0	3.4	MB	2.38	GB
303	Alfred 2	savyna	0.1	21.3	MB	2.48	GB
305	xpcd	_coreaudio	0	4.6	MB	2.35	GB
306	com.apple.audio.Sandbox	_coreaudio	0	4.3	MB	2.35	GB
316	pbs	savyna	0	7.1	MB	2.35	GB
317	Bartender	savyna	0	17.1	MB	2.44	GB
318	SlimBatteryMonitor	savyna	0.2	9.5	MB	2.4	GB
319	AppleSpell.service	savyna	0	3.6	MB	2.37	GB
321	Dropbox	savyna	0.1	79.8	MB	942.7	MB
332	AirPort Base Station Agen	savyna	0	1.9	MB	2.35	GB
334	aText	savyna	0	22.8	MB	2.42	GB
335	librariand	savyna	0	8.8	MB	2.38	GB
336	ubd	savyna	0	12.9	MB	2.38	GB
337	BetterTouchTool	savyna	0.4	20.1	MB	2.41	GB
343	Espionage	savyna	0	15.9	MB	2.43	GB
344	racoon	root	0	2.3	MB	2.35	GB
345	CheatSheet	savyna	0.4	11.3	MB	3.41	GB
348	dbfseventsd	root	0	372	KB	582.7	MB
349	dbfseventsd	root	0	1.5	MB	590.7	MB
350	dbfseventsd	savyna	0	172	KB	582.7	MB
355	Image Capture Extension	savyna	0	10.1	MB	2.44	GB
358	launchd	_spotlight	0	856	KB	2.36	GB
361	distnoted	_spotlight	0	1.5	MB	2.37	GB
362	cfprefsd	_spotlight	0	1.1	MB	2.35	GB
363	Swiss Arrows	savyna	0	10.6	MB	2.44	GB
365	Collective	savyna	0.2	45.5	MB	2.54	GB
367	PopClip	savyna	0	25	MB	2.45	GB
370	System Lens	savyna	0	11.9	MB	2.45	GB
407	Skype	savyna	0	92.3	MB	887.1	MB
411	AppleCameraAssistant	root	0	5.9	MB	2.35	GB
415	rpcsvchost	root	0	2.9	MB	2.36	GB
420	mdworker	savyna	0.6	25.7	MB	2.39	GB
423	Google Chrome	savyna	3.2	135.8	MB	1.13	GB
426	Google Chrome Helper	savyna	0	48.2	MB	834.4	MB
429	Google Chrome Worker	savyna	0	31.6	MB	807.6	MB
430	Google Chrome Worker	savyna	0	35.8	MB	812.6	MB
431	Google Chrome Worker	savyna	0	28.9	MB	807.2	MB
432	Google Chrome Worker	savyna	0	29.4	MB	806.9	MB
433	Google Chrome Worker	savyna	0	73.2	MB	832.3	MB
434	Google Chrome Worker	savyna	0	92.2	MB	866.4	MB
435	Google Chrome Worker	savyna	0	28.4	MB	806.1	MB
436	Google Chrome Worker	savyna	0	31.7	MB	808	MB
437	Google Chrome Worker	savyna	0	33	MB	807	MB
438	Google Chrome Worker	savyna	0	34.7	MB	810.9	MB
440	Google Chrome Worker	savyna	0	37.4	MB	812.1	MB
446	Google Chrome Renderer	savyna	0.2	154.2	MB	953	MB
459	check_afp	root	0	1.2	MB	2.35	GB
493	Activity Monitor	savyna	6.3	27.2	MB	2.45	GB
495	activitymonitord	root	0.8	1.6	MB	2.33	GB
504	CVMCompiler	savyna	0	3.5	MB	2.35	GB
508	Google Chrome Renderer	savyna	0	71.4	MB	879.1	MB
513	Preview	savyna	0	23.3	MB	2.47	GB
517	com.apple.Preview.Truste	savyna	0	4.1	MB	2.34	GB
518	Sublime Text	savyna	0	37.5	MB	2.5	GB
521	plugin_host	savyna	0	14.2	MB	2.38	GB
528	com.apple.iCloudHelper	savyna	0	5.7	MB	2.37	GB
529	printtool	savyna	0	2.2	MB	2.35	GB
530	cupsd	root	0	2.9	MB	2.36	GB
539	Xcode	savyna	0	91.1	MB	3.68	GB
542	cookied	savyna	0	1.2	MB	2.35	GB
549	com.apple.dt.Xcode.Licens	root	0	5.3	MB	2.36	GB
550	xpcd	root	0	4.5	MB	2.35	GB
552	installd	root	0	6.4	MB	2.39	GB
575	mdworker	_spotlight	0	8.1	MB	2.37	GB

And finally my battery info:

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Answer 3

Linc Davis

Level 10

209,673 points

Oct 22, 2013 7:30 AM in response to Savyna

Skype is most likely to be the cause of the problem, but if you don't agree, see below.

The warranty entitles you to complimentary phone support for the first 90 days of ownership.

If you bought the product in the U.S. directly from Apple (not from a reseller), you have 14 days from the date of delivery in which to exchange or return it for a refund. In other countries, the return policy may be different. If you bought from a reseller, its return policy applies.

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Answer 4

Savyna Author

Level 1

10 points

Oct 22, 2013 9:21 AM in response to Linc Davis

I know it because I have done a Safe Boot to check if it was something related to an application but the indicator stills from 2 to 4 hours of battery life.

I suppose the problem might not be related to any software malfunction and I will have to contact to Apple.

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Answer 5

Lexiepex

Level 6

14,102 points

Oct 22, 2013 10:48 AM in response to Savyna

Savyna,

first of all, battery life is not really dependent on just CPU%.

The Etrecheck list is "heavy" with all sorts of apps that you may better not have when you do not really need them.

1. Uninstall the TimeMachineEditor. This can cause a lot of trouble, ask Pondini the TM specialist, google Pondini and you willl find his blogs and TM exposes.

I experimented with the two most known TM schedulers and in both cases it caused problems, from a "hesitating" computer to shortening battery life.

2. If you do not need Virtualbox, uninstall it. A resource-eating app. If you must have it (Or any other VM app) use it sparsely: starting manually, and quitting as soon as you have finished.

3. You can miss the Logitech Control Center I suppose, it uses more resources by running in the background than you should suspect.

4. Protech NOSLEEP must be uninstalled, you can set the Energy Saver to your needs.

5. Uninstall Orbicule, does not bring more safety than already is in the OS.

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In general, avoid software that inject kext (kernel extensions) files inside the belly of the OS !!

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6. Uninstall the Delayed Launcher, this may be bring something in a Windows environment, but OSX is perfectly well capable to do the job of starting your machine.

7. Teamviewer: is your machine the host or the guest?

8. 1Password, although a very useful application, I have seen some issues in 10.8.5. Maybe that is a temporarly item.

9. Valve Steam: a well known resource eater, and known for issues.

Edit: 10. Chrome uses much resources, and is as fast as Safari and less safe.

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I guarantee a much better machine without Valve, Protech, Orbicule, Delayed Launcher, Chrome, TimeMachineEditor;

and even much much better without the Virtualizer VB and Logitech.

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Sounds terrible, isn't it?

Whatever you do: after doing what you think right (or enough), post a new Etrecheck list: it will show whether the uninstalls were complete.

Have Fun, it is a beautiful machine, and you are right: battery life could be much better,

Lex

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Answer 6

Savyna Author

Level 1

10 points

Oct 23, 2013 4:38 AM in response to Lexiepex

I've made a little clean up. I need VirtualBox for my engineering classes. This is the new Etrecheck list.

Hardware Information:

MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2013)

MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir6,1

1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores

8 GB RAM

Video Information:

Intel HD Graphics 5000 - VRAM: 1024 MB

Startup Items:

VirtualBox - Path: /Library/StartupItems/VirtualBox

System Software:

OS X 10.8.5 (12F45) - Uptime: 0 days 0:2:13

Disk Information:

APPLE SSD TS0128F disk0 : (121.33 GB)

disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Deneve (disk0s2) /: 120.47 GB (32.8 GB free)

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB

USB Information:

Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 15.72 GB

disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB

Install OS X Mavericks (disk1s2) /Volumes/Install OS X Mavericks: 15.38 GB (10.02 GB free)

Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

Logitech USB Receiver

FireWire Information:

Thunderbolt Information:

Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

Kernel Extensions:

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.2.18)

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.2.18)

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.2.18)

org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.2.18)

Problem System Launch Daemons:

Problem System Launch Agents:

Launch Daemons:

[loaded] com.orbicule.uc.plist

Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.orbicule.UCAgent.plist

User Launch Agents:

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist

[failed] ws.agile.1PasswordAgent.plist

User Login Items:

iTunesHelper

Alfred 2

SlimBatteryMonitor

3rd Party Preference Panes:

None

Internet Plug-ins:

JavaAppletPlugin.plugin

QuickTime Plugin.plugin

SharePointBrowserPlugin.plugin

User Internet Plug-ins:

Bad Fonts:

None

Top Processes by CPU:

2% WindowServer

2% fontd

1% EtreCheck

0% uc

0% System Events

0% ps

0% SystemUIServer

0% configd

0% coreservicesd

0% Dock

Top Processes by Memory:

41 MB mds

41 MB Dock

41 MB WindowServer

33 MB CalendarAgent

25 MB NotificationCenter

25 MB coreservicesd

16 MB com.apple.dock.extra

16 MB mdworker

16 MB Alfred 2

16 MB loginwindow

Virtual Memory Statistics

6.70 GB Free RAM

657 MB Active RAM

80 MB Inactive RAM

590 MB Wired RAM

197 MB Page-ins

0 B Page-outs

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Answer 7

Lexiepex

Level 6

14,102 points

Oct 23, 2013 6:17 AM in response to Savyna

Much better, good work.

A. Still to delete by hand:

1. com.orbicule.uc.plist

this is in the LaunchDaemons folder:

SSD /Library/LaunchDaemons/

and

2. com.orbicule.UCAgent.plist

this is in the Deneve/Library/LaunchAgents/

if you do not find it there look in

SSD /Library/LaunchAgents/

B. You do not need Alfred and SmartBatteryMonitor. Better uninstall them. And remove both from SystemPreferences/Users&Groups/ LoginItems tab. Then restart the mac.

If you insist to have a better info about the battery use CoconutBattery (start when necessary and Quit when done), this one keeps a good history at the same time.

Complete info about the battery is already in the SystemIformation : click the apple menu, press the Alt(=option) key, choose "SystemInformation", look under "power".

Post your comments again,

Lex

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Answer 8

Savyna Author

Level 1

10 points

Oct 30, 2013 5:26 PM in response to Lexiepex

LexSchellings wrote:

Much better, good work.

A. Still to delete by hand:

1. com.orbicule.uc.plist

this is in the LaunchDaemons folder:

SSD /Library/LaunchDaemons/

and

2. com.orbicule.UCAgent.plist

this is in the Deneve/Library/LaunchAgents/

if you do not find it there look in

SSD /Library/LaunchAgents/

B. You do not need Alfred and SmartBatteryMonitor. Better uninstall them. And remove both from SystemPreferences/Users&Groups/ LoginItems tab. Then restart the mac.

If you insist to have a better info about the battery use CoconutBattery (start when necessary and Quit when done), this one keeps a good history at the same time.

Complete info about the battery is already in the SystemIformation : click the apple menu, press the Alt(=option) key, choose "SystemInformation", look under "power".

Post your comments again,

Lex

Ok I finally managed to solve the problem. I tried everything you told me and the same day I decided to try Mavericks. When I was installing Mavericks, the installation went wrong and it restarted after an error message.

After that the machine won't boot up even reseting the PRAM, the CMD + R controls didn't work.

I went to my nearest Apple Store and they kept the machine and today they've returned and diagnosed that the ssd from Toshiba was faulty.

Now I've my computer running showing the amazing 11:35 hours of battery life at the moment.

Thank you all for the support!

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Answer 9

Lexiepex

Level 6

14,102 points

Oct 31, 2013 1:45 AM in response to Savyna

Again Toshiba, already close to ten now in the last two months....

Thank you for your post, great that you solved it.

Let the items that we removed in this thread stay far away now in Mavericks also!

🙂

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