Horrible battery on Maverick

Gaby13, I'll be very grateful if you will share with us the response you get about this, when you do.

It's nice to have someone with knowledge backing us, instead of giving the same answer around the community to a problem that is certainly not google's, spotlight's, maccleaner's or whatever's fault

I've changed nothing about the way I use my Macbook since upgrading, other than start using Safari instead of Chrome, yet my battey life has been cut in half or worse, and my Macbook is heating up a lot.

There is a problem and it needs to be acknowledged!

Of course Victorappler

Unfortunately these things happen from time to time, and although not commonplace, it is an issue that occurs with some OSX upgrades, not to mention iOS, though I have always been very fortunate with the latter.

Regards.

Same problem here.

By the way, pointing out that Mavericks is supposed to increase battery life doesn't make it suddenly better. If I thought like that, I'd vote Republican.

iMarc3G

By the way, pointing out that Mavericks is supposed to increase battery life doesn't make it suddenly better.

There is no "supposed to" here for most people

Making it better makes it better. Im getting 25% more battery now out of the Air, and nearly 20% more out of the macbook Pro.

It IS better (for most people).

After Mavericks install, your "time remaining" WILL BE INACCURATE until you do a SMC reset in most all cases

SMC reset

1. Shut down the computer.
2. Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected.
3. On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
4. Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
5. Press the power button to turn on the computer.

😊

We don't need people saying it's working for them because-that's-what-it-does as a solution to our problem. If we have a problem, it needs to be adressed.

And thank you, but this procedure does not fix the problem, tried it already. It's not a problem with the battery indicator. I'm not reporting it based on the indicator, but on the fact that my battery lasts less than half of what it used to. And, as I said, my Macbook is heating up a lot, too, after upgrading.

I just posted this in an older forum, but realized this is a better place for it.

REPLY IF IT WORKS FOR YOU!

I'm writing this because I just upgraded to OS X Mavericks from Lion 10.7.6 and my battery life was significantly reduced. I'd upgraded once from Lion to Mountain Lion and encountered the same problem so I downgraded back to Lion.

Anyway, upgrading to Mavericks brought my battery from about 8 hours, a lot of times 9 hours after a full charge and surfing the web down to about 3.5 hours. Big reduction. THEN I tried these three things other people one this forum recommended:

1) I did the Reapir Disk Permissions thing on my hard drive through the Disk Utility App

2) I shut my computer down and did the PRAM reset: shut down then power up and press and hold option, command and the P and R keys before the gray screen appears and kept them held down until the computer restarted AGAIN.

3) Shut down computer again and pressed and held Shift, Control, Option and Power button down FOR MORE THAN 10 seconds. (I emphasize for more than 10 seconds because I'd tried it a couple times before for less than 10 seconds and it didn't seem to work).

Then when I turned on my computer the battery life showed about 6 hours which I hadn't seen since before the upgrade.

Now the percentage is at about 71% and reading about 5 hours remaining as I type this running Chrome.

Hope this helps some of ya'll. I'm greatful for those of you who took the time to list the steps you took to fixing the problem.

Godspeed.

...Im getting 25% more battery now out of the Air, and nearly 20% more out of the macbook

I was curious about your earlier post regarding the 2013 Macbook Air so I decided to perform my own test on the MBA I have with me.

The result is roughly the same as yours, a 23% increase in battery life:

With Mountain Lion I got a little more than nine hours on a full charge.

This is not a new Mac. There is sufficient information in the above to determine its age.

15.68 hours from a new MBA is certainly possible.

True, but I dont know what is better, the absurd increase in battery on TOP of the 12hours,....

or the fact that I went from 22+ seconds boot to a hair UNDER 8 seconds

I tested that boot time at least a dozen times already

Or Photoshop Pro would open in just under 6 seconds, and now just a hair over 3 seconds.

I did find that neither Macbook indicated correct batt. life % or even close until I did a SMC reset however.

victorappler wrote:

... And, as I said, my Macbook is heating up a lot, too, after upgrading.

Then something is obviously wrong with it.

Since you have ignored multiple requests to start a new Discussion so that your concerns can be properly addressed, the only conclusion any reasonable person can possibly draw is that are not interested in fixing your problems and that you are a troll, to be ignored.

xkevinbondx wrote:

I just posted this in an older forum, but realized this is a better place for it.

REPLY IF IT WORKS FOR YOU!

I'm writing this because I just upgraded to OS X Mavericks from Lion 10.7.6 and my battery life was significantly reduced. I'd upgraded once from Lion to Mountain Lion and encountered the same problem so I downgraded back to Lion.

Anyway, upgrading to Mavericks brought my battery from about 8 hours, a lot of times 9 hours after a full charge and surfing the web down to about 3.5 hours. Big reduction. THEN I tried these three things other people one this forum recommended:

1) I did the Reapir Disk Permissions thing on my hard drive through the Disk Utility App

2) I shut my computer down and did the PRAM reset: shut down then power up and press and hold option, command and the P and R keys before the gray screen appears and kept them held down until the computer restarted AGAIN.

3) Shut down computer again and pressed and held Shift, Control, Option and Power button down FOR MORE THAN 10 seconds. (I emphasize for more than 10 seconds because I'd tried it a couple times before for less than 10 seconds and it didn't seem to work).

Then when I turned on my computer the battery life showed about 6 hours which I hadn't seen since before the upgrade.

Now the percentage is at about 71% and reading about 5 hours remaining as I type this running Chrome.

Hope this helps some of ya'll. I'm greatful for those of you who took the time to list the steps you took to fixing the problem.

Godspeed.

Unfortunatly this process did not work for me!

I also am getting better battery life with Maverick. My MBA after 4 hours would typically be at less than 10%, now it's just under 30% after the same 4 hours.

Think that the old MBP will give this problem but not the new one ?

I am having the same problem on MacBook Air

When the MBA returns from sleep mode, the battery was fully charged, is half (52% - 65%) and super heated.

I don't see the point having multiple discussions about the same issue. It's much more valid having a strong one.

And I don't want to start a new one so you can reply the same thing you've been replying in all other discussions that address the same problem. I'm not a troll, I just don't see the point and don't know who died and made you sheriff here.

Plus, you've been using this post to say how much better you battery life got with Mavericks, like we're doing something wrong, like all things Apple do are flawless. You're not helping at all, and at this point you're the one being the troll.

If people have a problem, don't come here saying "you're not supposed to, mine works fine". That's not helpful at all.

well, mine is an early 2013 Retina. since the new one was just released tuesday, I don't consider it to be old yet