Mavericks MacBook Air 2013 Battery Draining

Hi Veritas,

"recommend the free APP called coconut battery and checking via mAh of charge rather than a time "remaining" indicator until this is resolved"

about Coconut Battery (that I use also): it just reads what the Apple electronics says, the important thing about CB is that you can save the readings...

Lex

yes, it does read the same data, but it provides more data, and is a handy nice App.

The best little batt App is called "Fruit Juice" on the App Store but it's not free.

I am testing it now, looks very good, but we ourselves do not need any such app, don't we... 😎

best wishes

Lex

Hey Lex,

Let me know what you think of the app you are "testing" because after all the work we just did on my Air the next day an update for Mavericks came out and buggered it all up again so now the battery life is all over the place and I don't have a clue how much time I am really getting.

My "time remaining" was accurate before the most update last week but now after each time I wake it up it changes. It will either go up or down, it's very random. It makes it difficult to know whether I can travel with it to a location where I can't plug it in but need to use it, which was the whole point of replacing my iPad with this device. I at least knew on my iPad how much charge I had left.

Maybe I need to send you another EtrCheck?

Thanks!

Hi nekogirl,

not satisfied yet?

the fruit juice app is good, I must say, testing now... ,

but expensive for a tool like that, about 10$.

you can read on the following site where it is based upon:

http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html

there is another site where you can read about the modern Li-ion batteries:

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/

The management as I decribed earlier in my post is modern and basically enough, but an app like fruit juice can be a good help though.

About the Etrecheck list: OK post one, I will look at it.

Lex

Hi Sam,

I had the same problem but it was fixed as soon as I installed the 10.9.1 update. There is dedicated fix for this issue included in that update.

Good luck.

Mavericks is the problem for me.

10.9.1 did not fix my battery drain issue.

I don´t have anything running in the background consuming more than 1% CPU.

No Apps that are not from the App Store.

Battery life was great with Mountain Lion.

Right after I installed Mavericks battery life was greatly affected!

If youre running CHROME, thats the issue.

it has several bugs currently and is a battery hog.

I do have Chrome installed but I don´t use it.

I´m using Safari and have quited out of Chrome.

Can Chrome still cause battery drain even if it has been quited?

Activity Monitor does not show any heavy usage.

Drop Box shows up as 2.8% CPU usage at it´s highest.

What I do notice is that Wi-Fi is constantly searhing for Networks even though I´m connected with a solid signal.

if not open no, that would not be an occurrence.

Run etrecheck to verify what you have running causing the power drain, look in activity monitor under power use to see yourself

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. EtreCheck automatically removes any personally identifiable information from the output.

do not download etrecheck from any other site than www.etrecheck.com......

I'm using a Mid 2013, MacBook Air and 10.9.1 solved it for me. what is the machine you are using? have you tried a SMC reset? SMC has things to do with Battery Management.

Hey Pourianhogh,

I've got a Mid 2011 MBA and 10.9.1 did nothing despite me resetting SMC and PRAM. Also, the documentation with the update states Nothing that says it address this drain issue.

My Opinion 10.9.1 does not do anything to solve this issue.

one important question for me: does anyone went back again from mavericks to mountain lion und solved the problem that way? with other words: got the normal battery life back?

Thanks for answers

Same issue with me. Battery life at 6hrs on full charge, but slowly increasing to 8hrs now. Its like a gradual increase like its indexing itself out slowly in regards to the battery charge. Still at 100% right now and battery time remaining is slowly increasing as i type this message here, lolz.. weird **** thats for sure.Almost 9 hrs now, and counting up the time remaining. Anyone else have this issue? Im on a Mid 2013 MBA.

Cheers