Horrible battery on Maverick

Yeah, someone should just run their laptop til the battery runs out and see how long it actually lasts. I'd do it, but I already went back two operating systems to 10.7

Thank You Gaby13.
I thought I was the only one having this issue, I have a Macbook pro early 2011, 2,7 GHz Intel Core i7.

I have done everything everyone have suggested in this thread and nothing is working the battery still drains in record time. I'm upset because that was one of the things I love about Mac. Let's hope Apple gives you and answer

I think you misunderstood my post.

The only thing, I did is to force my macbook to re-index my disk.

Of course, I wouldn't want to stop the indexing, the problem was that the indexing process on my MBA just went crazy.

On my MBP and my iMac 27" i7, I didn't have that problem.

Yes, no worries aleb110.

Some people are suggesting that the battery meter is simply miscalibrated, however I am uncertain whether this is the case, perhaps in a percentage of users. I certainly noticed that these machines are draining in record time.

Personally I'm convinced there has been an error in the OS coding between GM and public release.
But noone is infallible, these things unfortunately happen occasionally and it will at least be dealt with it promptly.

I will update when I know more.

I also have this problem.

Mid 2012 MBP. i7 2.6ghz, 8 gigs of ram, 1TB hdd

Since upgrading to mavericks my battery life has been HORRIBLE. Significantly worse than mountain lion.

Pretty frustrated.

The only thing i have noticed is that it seems to CHARGE way faster. It also drains way way faster too.

pretty much the only reason i even upgraded was for the better battery life.... pretty bs.

Hi BenjaminUltra

Please start a new Discussion and include your system details. Thanks!

caseyfromapex wrote:

So I did a real world test today and got right at about 3 hours of battery life with very low use today. That is very poor for a Mac that is less than a month old....

If your Mac is so new, have you availed yourself of Apple's telephone support? It's free for the first 90 days.

Considering that it's new you shouldn't have to burden yourself with this concern.

Could be also how it was used during tests. I.E. are you testing with a clean system where you did not install any additional background services, etc. Check your activity monitor for processes continously using your cpu. The way mavericks works is that it works in batches for cpu idle. Meaning it groups all your processes together in one burst of execution then sits in idle for a certain amount of time.

Will somebody please shut John Gault up from putting out what appears to be an automatic respons everytime.

:-from Gaby13

You are Most welcome.

It amuses me to read some of the nonsense that gets posted and the remarks that get regurgitated like a telephone support reading from a script.

Reset SMC

Repair permissions
It should be better, mine is......

or "please start a new thread" by the same people reciting this unhelpful, elementary advice like it's a cure-all.
When they in fact, are the people making irrelevent posts.

Thank goodness somebody else has stepped in to take charge. As Gaby has ponted out what is the point of everybody setting up a new thread for the same problem. We are now talking on here and trying to sort it out. Jolly good for him that he is getting zillions of hours since installing Maverick, but most on here that are posting are getting the opposite, upto a quarter of the battery life that we were getting before.

I have no doubt that there is enough expertise on here together with Apple who must be aware of it, to sort the problem out. Two hours battery life is no used to me, but I will hold off re-installing ML in the hope that this will shortly be addressed.

Cheers

tut

n1tut wrote:

Will somebody please shut John Gault up from putting out what appears to be an automatic respons everytime.

hahah second that!

I am taking no notice of the gauge, just fully charging then running until it shuts down, 2.05hrs.

At the moment it tells me 4.30 remaining on 46% after 1.5 hrs usage, so as much use as a chocolate frog.

tut

Tut, you're gonna test it out and see how long it REALLY lasts, run 'er til she shuts on down??

So having this issue (considerable battery loss) since upgrading to Mavericks from Mountain Lion, I performed the following steps--as issued by several Apple specialists at the Genius Bar.

1. Performed a SMC and PRAM reset. (Did a full battery drain right after--no change in battery life.)

2. Ran a full hardware and software diagnostic at the Genius bar (EVERYTHING checked out okay--including battery.)

2. Did a clean install of Mavericks, deleting everything. (No change in battery performance, again.)

3. Downgraded to Mountain Lion on clean install (still nothing)

4. Bought and replaced a new battery for my MacBook Pro (just to be sure, but yet again, nothing).

Continue to see my battery drain, getting only 4 hours on a full charge with no apps running (and none installed anyway on a fresh OS).

Can't decipher if this is a software/OS problem (as one Apple Genius Bar Specialist thinks it could have coded/rewired something permanently that can't be changed)

OR a hardware problem (as another Apple Specialist suggested--but again, my computer shows no diagnostic sign of failure, at all).

Anyways, no one at the Genius Bar (now upto 7 different folks) on several different occasions can troubleshoot this problem. Not their fault I suspect, but frustrating nonetheless.

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tl,dr? My opinion is that it's nothing to do with Google Chrome, spotlight indexing or your current battery (most likely). So let's try some more novel approches/solutions, shall we?

wow that boggles my mind. I have no i idea what is wrong with your computer. You have dropped down to mountain lion and its still the same and you have bought a new battery. Maybe smc reset or pram reset. But Im pretty sure u have tried that. Maybe try to leave you laptop on with min brightness and no apps running and see how long it runs then.

If you're lazy like me, take a sample of the data. So drain your laptop to 85% from 100% and check how long your computer has been on by going to terminal and typing "uptime". divide the minutes uptime/.20 and you will get how long your computer should last instead of running it down all the time and chewing up life cyles. 20% instead of 15% because osx +5% from the actual battery life in the menu bar.