Horrible battery on Maverick

and 100/10 for nuisance

Just to give you a brief update Victor, and everyone affected in point of fact.

I have been speaking with a Senior specialist for most of the afternoon. I highlighted both the problem I am experiencing, and the things that I have already done in order to remedy the issue.

Needless to say they are rather concerned (Though they said not many people are reporting this issue to them directly, so if you could all please contact apple)

We have Created a test partition (which I had done anyway before hand) to see whether it could be third party software related. Which it certainly is not.

We have looked at activity monitor at length on Mavericks, and it is repoting some very unusual values.

I have then created another partition and downgraded back to 10.8, and confusingly, it is also now not running as expected.

It is very possible that there is some bad code in OS X, but it also looks like a hardware issue may be causing the behaviour. My concern with that is that have experienced fantastic results with the developer preview, and better results in 10.8 prior to the upgrade. This doesn't make much sense. These things are unfortunately rather more complicated than some would have you believe.

The matter is now escalated to head engineers in Europe. I will keep you posted.

As previously mentioned it would be beneficial for all affected users to report the issues in detail to apple providing details of top values in activity monitor for both average energy and current, along with processor activity. I would also measure in real time how long 5% battery drain takes from full and include that information.

Regards, Gabe.

Thanks for that Gabe, I am just an experienced user, but good to see that you are liasing with Apple. I spent a couple of hours today on line with Apple Tech and the technician could not have been more helpful, but could not pin it down.

I have worked through every suggestion, SMC and PRAM resets took me from 2hrs on my new 11" to 3hrs, but that is as far as I can get.

Cheers

tut

You are most welcome indeed Tut.

Thank you very much, Gaby13!

I've already contacted Apple and tried to explain the problem, did some tests they asked me to, but then they told me to go to a Apple Store get help, cause the tests were inconclusive. Since I live in Brazil, I don't have that option. We'll just have to wait, then...

Hi, so I just went ahead and went on the italian apple website (I'm from Italy) and even though my early 2011 Macbook pro is not with guarantee I still went ahead and saw that there was a chat option where you could state you have a problem with the software or hardware and you thought you didn't have to pay for the service (I have also a problem with the fans, they heat up and run all the time even though I did the PRAM and SMC reset, run all the battery, etc). Well guess what? After you hit that button there was one specifically for Maverick OS X so I actually think we are not the only ones, unfortunately is almost 8pm here and the chat service is not available so I will be contacting someone tomorrow and report you everything about it (even though I don't have so much hope as here in Italy they seem a little bit slow on technology stuff). I hope I made myself clear, I know my english is not eccelent.
Thanks again Gaby13 and everyone that have been reporting the same problem.

Fortunately I am only 30 miles away from my Aberdeen Apple Store, so knowing how helpful they have been in the past, they can have a go at this problem.

tut

Interestingly, the author of this article on The Verge also seems to have had the same issue. His battery life got worse after the upgrade.

I found this thread and the above article because I have been experiencing the same issue. My mid-2012 11" MacBook Air is getting only around 3-4 hours of use on battery since upgrading to Mavericks. Crazy.

It appears from reading this thread that the only real solution is to wait until Apple fixes the bug. Frustrating.

Late 2012 13" Retina here.

Before installing Mavericks 7-8hr battery, now 3 hours max. I've depleted and charged at least 4 times now and its always the same. I've been running on a fully charged battery since 6pm, its now 8:15pm and im on 8%..

Go Apple..

"I got the same 3hrs which was the increse from 2hrs that I got the other day after going through a SMC and PRAM reset."

Today I got something else. I left the computer to download maverics for the whole night, 10 hours or so. I saw it has charged itself but i left it charging for the whole night. After like 10 hours or even more of charging it shows up with 6-7 hours. That seems like an increase. Looking at those 2-3 hours earlier.

Going further I do have mavericks installed, but I did need a fresh thumb usb copy, so I had to download it again.

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I am in the exact same boat. I have a late 2012 Retina Macbook Pro and my battery went from 7-8 hours to MAYBE 3 if I was lucky.

I just did the SMC reset and it didn't really solve anything. Initially it said I had 9 hours of usage at 92% I'm down to 88% now within 8 mins and time left is 6:41 mins.

Trickling down...

Yesterday I had a talk with the apple support guy. He just asked questions and I did answer them. But thing got his attention. My computer was bought second hand. I didn't have any problem with ML, but now I'm experiencing battery life problem like guys above and sound problem. Both of these didn't happen on ML.

1. About the support. I was asked if the battery is getting hot even if unplugged? Yep, mine is so hot that my wrist hurt while typing. He answered about a code, which does get the battery into stress mode and if they don't do anything the battery might explode in my face...

2. I found out that, while I'm playing a short 1 hour movie, which has a bigger kick in the sound, I get a disturbence and it cuts out the sound.

Does someone experience the same?

On coconutbattery I have 80% now, it jumps from charge to charge between 78-81% The battery status says good. Ehh. I'm getting a little stressed here. As I think it is damaging my battery, oh 😟

My battery time decreased from around 5 hours on a MBP Retina 15" 2012 to around 3 hours only. I am very sure that mail is the problem. I have a few hundred mail accounts checking constantly, with all other programs closed and mail open the battery time plunges.

Same issue here around 3 hours of battery since upgrading.

Everyone - call Apple Support! They'll help fix this for short-term, and need more information to get a permanent solution.

com.apple.internetaccounts was a runaway process using 100% cpu - delete the .plist in library/preferences

The other common thread from what I'm hearing is that mail is high utilization and has a problem somewhere

Bottom line - the engineers need information to fix this, so call tech support, they'll start gathering data and put out a fix. I have confidence in this.

Cheers!