Horrible battery on Maverick

Same over here: 2013 MBP 15" Retina (early 2013)...

I'm loosing about 25% battery per hour... I can't belive how terrible the battery life is compaired to Mountain Lion.

I used to get almost a whole 9-10 hours per charge. Now i'm getting around 3-4 hours.

Today i'm trying the following:

- Keep Mail Closed (as much as possible)

- Disabled Spotlight Index on my home folder

Brutal...

Is all this rapid charging going to hurt the battery?

Is your SIL working normally? If not, maybe resetting SMC will help.

Regards,

Chen

Thanks, but I've reset SMC lots of times.

Disabling Spotlight on the home folder isn't a good solution anymore. It blocks Mail search abilities.

Looking into it further, It appears Spotlight is chewing into system resources quite frequently. The following will purge spotlight and re-start indexing.

$ sudo mdutil -E / && rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100 && sudo mdutil -i on /

"Energy Impact" appears to be lower. But it's too early to tell if this will fix my battery issues.

...hope this gets fixed in the next Mavericks release 😟

Well, that didn't help...

Keeping Mail closed and Reindexing spotlight had no effect. I've also made sure Time Machine in only active when plugging in. That's not helping either.

Today I got 5 hours out of a full charge on my Macbook Pro 15 (early 2013)... Frustrating when I used to get at least 8 hours per charge and this was when Mail always open, spotlight on etc...

Thank you so much! I did what you said and got some serious improvements on my Mid 2011 13" Macbook Air.

BATTERY

Before: Battery on 88% and 3h30m remaining.

After: Battery on 86% and 4h13m left.

BOOT TIME

Before: About 25 seconds (password input included) and just the Finder app running.

After: Less than 17 seconds (password input included), with Safari, Messages and Activity Monitor automatically opening.

Now it just jumped to 4h43m with 83%, with Safari, Activity Monitor, FInder and Messages running.

I'm having the same problem - not to the extent that many of you are, but my brand new (just over a day old) 13" retina is only getting about 6 hours on a charge with practically nothing running, which is significantly less than what's claimed.

The problem seems to be spotlight is always running. It's always indexing and says "Estimating Indexing Time" and never does anything. Activity monitor says it has an avg energy impact of 34. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it should be done indexing a 250GB PCIe flash drive after over 24 hours of being on, and it shouldn't be using that much power even when its supposed to be running.

And I'm not going to remove my hard drive from spotlight - this is a deeper problem and I'm wanting some answers from Apple. I'm gonna call them later today; I'll let people know if I find out anything useful.

Spotlight and Mail often hits 200+ Energy Impact as well. Oh and the fan is constantly going now, when before it would barely crack a sweat.

I'm keeping my Macbook Pro plugged in at all times b/c I don't want to run up my cycles... I hope this isn't causing any damage.

Hey guys - I found a solution to my problem. Might not affect anyone else, but I'll throw it out there.

My problem was an SD card. Specifically, I have a microSD card in an special adapter that sits flush with the slot (the Nifty Minidrive), on which I have my iTunes library. However, it wasn't being included in my Time Machine backups, which I wanted it to. After looking that issue up online, I determined I needed to re-format it from "FAT" to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". This not only fixed my backup issue, but the spotlight issue as well. Spotlight must have been trying to index that card, and having problems since it wasn't the right format.

Jumped from around 6 hours back up to 9-ish or higher.

Hopefully that's helpful to some of you, if not, maybe it'll be helpful to someone in the future.

I suspect its Spotlight related too. In my earlier reply I was resetting the spotlight index and that just kept perpetuating the issue.

This time around, i've excluded my Time Capsule volumes from Time Machine and my battery appears to be back to normal. I've been unplugged for around 3 hours now and down to 60% left which seems about right.

HOWEVER, I do have Mail closed this whole time. Next test is to open Mail, and see if my battery goes to ****.

Hi guys just wanted to add my storry to the post and have to say i have the same issue that my battery power went down almost half , and have to say it is going even faster in real life test then the indicator tells me. in the begining i have seen that spotlight and mdworker using up a lot of engery and cpu power , sadly to say you can not turn spotlight off in the activy monitor , I found a post to start the computer in safe mode and that seem to be at least kept spotlight and mdworkder some how in check and they do not show up as engery hogs but they are still the biggest drainers but with smaller numbers behind htem and i only got about 30 min extra battery live out of that. Did the SMC thing that does not work at all for me, not to sure if i do something wronng but in one post it was said the light on the power adaptor should go out or blink nothing happens at all to that on mine so not sure if it works or not. it is sad to say that my machine battery life is gone after about 3 hours maybe 4 and my friend which has a 2011 model 17 inch mac book pro has 60 % battery left and doing way more on the computer then i do. ( we tested it ) also i with mountain lion was able ot watch a 90 min movie and still had about 80-70% battery left while on Maverick now my battery is close to 30% after watching a 90 min movie , so there is definalty an issue and i agree the guys which do not have a problem should not post on that post as one user righlty said it does not help our case which have the problem ( it might be apple them self to diffuse the issue) and it makes everyone look stupid. And i am sure that some of the posters now more about computers then the once which claim havinng no issues ( maybe they were just lucky with the their machine )

the only possitve i got out of my problem is that I solved my shut down problem which i had already before maverick but continued with it. it took almost a minute or more for the computer to shut down but thanks to Link Davis who saw that my bootcamp drive had a wired name and asked me to to a cdchk on the windows partion and guess what that fixed it and now my computer shuts down like it should be .

For me, It's ended up fixing its self. It was due to a fresh install + Mail + Spotlight Indexing.

I ended up leaving my mail open, plugged in for a day. When spotlight finished indexing my battery life resumed normal operations.

I have taken my air 11.6 to the service center. they have confirmed that the battery is fine. they erased all data and reloaded Maverick. once I restored the backup, the problem has got worse. I not see the battery life at 3 hours...

I have taken my air 11.6 to the service center. they have confirmed that the battery is fine. they erased all data and reloaded Maverick. once I restored the backup, the problem has got worse.

Hi shanks13

Please start a new Discussion so that your unique circumstances can be addressed. Thanks!

Thanks a lot for these tips! these worked for me! i recently bought a macbook pro 13 inch (late 2013) and was wondering why the battery says only 3:07 hrs remaining when its about 98%. i also noticed that even with very light usage, youtube, gmail etc, it drops by almost 2% every 5 minutes or so. I was so about to go to the Apple store tomorrow to return my macbook. But after doing all the steps you described, now at 100% it says 7:45 hrs remaining. That's a really huge difference!!! i think its because i just restored a backup of my last macbook (2010) so the settings might have screwed everything up.