Mavericks MacBook Air 2013 Battery Draining

same for me ... definitely not getting 10 years ... more like 5-6 hours of normal use :-(

I have a MBA 11” mid 2011 and I have the exact same problem from about 6h to now 2h of battery since upgrading to Mavericks… Tried this, without results…

- No activity in the activity monitor

- PRAM/SMC reset

- Reinstalling Mavericks

Have anyone heard about any resolution from Apple yet?

Never expected this from maverics,It has totally sucked me...........Now i am again installing the Good Old Lion OS x 10.7..........i see no hope thats y,Also getting it done costed me so much in an apple care,Very bad experience with apple for the first time.

sunnysunil5 wrote:

........i see no hope thats y,

It is not reasonable to make that determination without explaining the problems you are experiencing by starting a new Discussion. Everyone who does so gets their problems addressed.

Assuming you sincerely want to solve your problem and not simply rant, replying to someone else's Discussion with a question of your own does not help, and will not result in soliciting the assistance you need.

Thanks!

Perhaps we should elaborate on what 15 hours of battery life entails!

Youtube == NO

Itunes with IPhone connected == NO

Gaming == NO

Flash ladden web-applications == NO

You're basically draining the battery anytime you crank up the previously mentioned.

I think the difference in why the guy was able to watch the Batman movies is that the I5 has built in decode technology that lets the chip show an HD movie without cranking up the frequency of the processor.

Just my 2 cents.

Did somebody get battery life boost after updating 10.9.2?
I still only have 7hr with 100%.

reset SMC after 10.9.2 update

it wouldnt boost battery, merely change the indicator on "time remaining"

Nothing changed for me.... still pretty horrible battery run-time with my MBP Retina 15"... with ML it was at least 3h more!

No battery improvement here with 10.9.2

My 2013 MBA struggles to get 6 hours still. I was getting 10 with 10.8.

I guess I am going to have to do a clean install, as much as I have been trying to avoid it.

I was really hoping 10.9.2 would fix it as the beta testers said it would...

Hello all,

I bought my MBA 13" (with basic 2013 model specs) 2 days back. Since then even I've felt the same issue about not getting enough hours remaining (because the reviews showed 11-14 hrs even with basic browsing). Especially today, when after charging the battery 100 percentage it showed only 4:50 hrs remaining. I went to this thread and read someone pointed out there is some issue with using Google chrome. I tried analysing the battery remaining with using only Safari (no other apps active) and it was still same.

But at last, I did get the problem solved (for now). I just re-started my laptop. Since then its showing 10:15 hrs remaining with 92% battery (and I am using Google Chrome). So I guess in my case it was some simple error in calculating which got fixed after restart. or maybe it was calculating based on the fact I was using YT earlier before re-start (although I feel even with YT usage it should show 8-10 hrs with 100% battery). + I also did some updates too before restart so that can be a problem fixer too.

Anyway, I'll come back to this thread to update if I encounter the problem again. Ciao!

I don't know if this will help or just be another possibility in a sea of possibilities :-)

But I've been trying everything and this problem persisted.

Finally.....I uninstalled Avast (anit-virus software) and I've not had a single occurance or issue since.

Best of lukc t you all.

I got still problems with my battery life time. When its charged 100% I got just about 4,5 hours (that is what the battery indicator says and that's what I checked with my watch :O.

10.9.2 did not fix anything for me.

As you can see in the amount of threads in forums there is a major battery issue and nobody can't deny this!

I don't use any 3th party software like Chrome, just the basics like Mail, Safari etc..

Right before upgrading to 10.9 everything was fine with ML (about 9-10 hours).

I use a MBP Retina 15" Early 2013.

ladprao130 wrote:

same for me ... definitely not getting 10 years

Not getting 10 years is perfectly normal.

Open Activity Monitor, go to the CPU tab, take a screenshot and post it here.

As you can see in the amount of threads in forums there is a major battery issue and nobody can't deny this!

FYI, all of us who have updated to Mavericks without any battery problems can deny it.

Your argument does not make sense. Of course there are many people who don't have problems, but as you can see in the forums there are many people as well who have battery issues. And this is what you can't deny!

Attached you will find the screenshots.