Q: Macbook Pro Late 2013 battery drained when in sleep mode

I've got the same issue. 2013 Macbook Pro. Always solves the problem by uninstalling Avast. 

I put my rmbp late 2013 to sleep using ctrl+shift+power. It seems to go to sleep. (It is still plugged in, lid open)

However, the next morning, when waking it up it is burning hot, and the fans come on full-blast for ten minutes to cool it off.

I haven't closed the lid yet (since I have external monitors and usb monitor and mouse I figured that closing the lid would put it into dock mode).

I have tens of windows open that I would prefer not to reopen every day, hence why I opted not to shut it down, but letting the computer cook itself all night is far worse.

Ideally I would be able to put the computer to sleep, peripherals plugged in and all, programs open, have it use minimal power and stay cool, and be able to pick right back up where I left off the next day without risking the health of the computer.

Update: Yesterday before leaving work I unplugged my rmbp before putting it to sleep using ctrl+shift+power, again with all peripherals connected and again with the lid open. I arrived to work this morning with the battery _completely drained_. At least, the computer was cold (who knows how hot it was while discharging, though), and the working state of my machine was saved (all my applications were exactly how I left them).

So basically, unless I turn it off, my computer will either be burning hot all night "sleeping" with the power on, or end up with a completely discharged battery.

At this point I'm worried to put it to "sleep" all night with the lid closed for fear of frying the screen. I shudder to say I miss Hibernate in Windows.

PS: The mac dumps RAM to disk and powers off right before the battery dies. Is there a way to force my mac to do this on command (say, when my battery is at 100%)?

Uninstalling avast worked for me too

Uninstaling Avast worked for me too. Their support forum has been hacked so I coudn't address the issue there, but did submit a ticket. Hope they have a solution soon.

emery | smith wrote:

 

Hope they have a solution soon.

Assuming you really do need some sort of A-V protection, there are better choices available, most are free.

So far I have gleaned this from this thread:

- lots of people have this problem (me too)

- uninstalling Avast (whatever that is) solves it for some people

I don't have Avast and have this problem. Does anyone know what program is running when the MBP is asleep? What is draining the battery? What is the general solution??

j

Per Maj. Tom's post and other research, this is how I found the answer for my system.  I hope someone finds this helpful.

I found the following 3 commands (run in a terminal window) to be very useful:

"pmset -g"

"pmset -g log"

"pmset -g | grep Assertion"

These commands helped me identify that "Address Book Source Sync" was keeping my MBP from sleeping.  I found 20,000+ entries in 1 week -- 1 every 30 seconds!!!

"2014-10-14 00:05:44 -0500 Assertions           PID 17685(AddressBookSour) Released PreventUserIdleSystemSleep "Address Book Source Sync" 00:00:30  id:0x100001ab2 [System: No Assertions]          "

The counterintuitive thing is that I did not have my Contacts set to sync with iCloud.  So I checked the box to sync Contacts with iCloud and for the past few days my MBP has been sleeping well and using very little battery power to do so.  See the timestamps of the 3 "Charge: xx%" messages in the excerpt from "pmset -g log" below:

Time stamp                Domain               Message                                                                     Duration   Delay    

==========                ======               =======                                                                     ========   =====    

UUID: D5905EA6-89A9-4E0F-8556-54433B1607F5

2014-10-27 21:00:23 -0500 Sleep               Entering Sleep state due to 'Clamshell Sleep': Using BATT (Charge:79%)     4229 secs

2014-10-27 21:00:27 -0500 PM Client Acks       Delays to Sleep notifications: [com.apple.apsd is slow(3636 ms)]          

2014-10-27 22:10:50 -0500 Kernel Client Acks   Delays to Sleep notifications: [powerd is slow(3641 ms)] [AppleThunderboltNHIType1 driver is slow(msg: WillChangeState to 2)(2071 ms)] [en0 driver is slow(msg: WillChangeState to 0)(2147 ms)]          

2014-10-27 22:10:52 -0500 DarkWake             DarkWake [CDN] due to EC.SleepTimer/SleepTimer: Using BATT (Charge:78%)     0 secs   

2014-10-27 22:10:52 -0500 Kernel Client Acks   Delays to Wake notifications: [en0 driver is slow(msg: DidChangeState to 2)(1871 ms)]          

2014-10-27 22:10:52 -0500 Sleep               Entering Sleep state due to 'Maintenance Sleep': Using BATT (Charge:78%)   35162 secs

2014-10-27 22:10:53 -0500 PM Client Acks       Delays to Sleep notifications: [discoveryd is slow(1281 ms)] [com.apple.apsd is slow(1789 ms)]          

2014-10-28 07:56:47 -0500 Kernel Client Acks   Delays to Sleep notifications: [AppleThunderboltNHIType1 driver is slow(msg: WillChangeState to 2)(2071 ms)] [PRT0 driver is slow(msg: SetState to 2)(429 ms)] [AppleHDADriver driver is slow(msg: SetState to 1)(413 ms)] [AppleHDADriver driver is slow(msg: SetState to 1)(468 ms)] [AppleIntelFramebuffer driver is slow(msg: SetState to 2)(729 ms)] [NVDA driver is slow(msg: SetState to 2)(795 ms)]          

2014-10-28 07:56:48 -0500 Notification         Display is turned on                                                               

2014-10-28 07:56:54 -0500 Wake                 Wake from Standby [CDNVA] due to EC.LidOpen/Lid Open: Using BATT (Charge:78%) 316 secs 

2014-10-28 07:56:54 -0500 HibernateStats       hibmode=3 standbydelay=4200                                                          rd=330 ms

2014-10-28 07:56:54 -0500 Kernel Client Acks   Delays to Wake notifications: [en0 driver is slow(msg: DidChangeState to 2)(1876 ms)]

I have other issue but this is pertaining to battery also. Last night I noticed that my battery was at 30% after several browsing I thought of watching a movie however it did not occur to me to check how much percent remaining so I went to sleep without plugging the charger and leaving my laptop as is. When I woke up my laptop was totally drain to 0%. I was dismayed and upset because I know my battery life span will change. Now my question is, this happened now and this is the first time my battery drain, will I anticipate some battery problem in the near future even if it did happen once only????   please enlighten my thoughts so that I will not be worried and prevent this from occurring again. thanks.

Incredibly, this problem still appears to persist.

My Macbook dropped 35% in two hours, unplugged, seemingly whilst asleep.

I don't want to cast stones, but since I've pretty much had Boom installed for as long as I've had my Macbook, this might explain the dismal state my battery is in... 76% original capacity, after 412 cycles (July 2012)...

Finally started googling – found this.

Ran the Terminal command, and the "com.apple.audio." was lit up, and PreventUserIdleSystemSleep was set to 1.

"Boom" wasn't listed, but quitting it completely, and running the Assertion check again, returned the latter to 0...

Does that confirm things? That BOOM was preventing sleep?

OKaaaaayyyyy....

Just tried your suggested Terminal command.

Along with the com.apple.audio., that Address.Book.Sync command is everywhere....

What the heck?

Any suggestions? 

[EDIT:]

Did some more reading. Appears this problem emanates from the iCloud meltdown I had several months ago, that saw the cellular data on my iPhone explode, after something became corrupted in the iCloud settings. The iPhone was "calling home", using cellular, regardless of every single setting being set to "wifi-only"... was burning through 2GBs per hour.

In the end, I was forced to nuke my original iCloud account, and create a second one. Appears that under Contacts, the old iCloud account was still active – and Contacts/Address book, appears to have been trying to reach it – all the time...

BOOM might have played a hand in this as well, but since I've now switched off / made the offending iCloud account inactive in Contacts AND quit BOOM, all is running as it should. If/when I do fire up BOOM again, will be sure to run a Assertions test, and see if anything has changed.

Regardless, thanks for all the info posted here – been a great help [plus, I learnt something useful about Terminal!]

Address book has has been sorted – but "com.apple.audio" still working its dark-magic. I've killed bluetooth and Boom – and makes no difference. I have no other audio programs (Spotify) etc., so unclear how or why it's still being triggered...

Would appreciate any suggestions!?

I'm having a similar issue with my Early 2015 MacBook Pro, however I think the issue might be the Internet Sharing option.  I used this with my old laptop, but I think my old laptop actually would override this for reasons I can't explain.

Check out this article.  I'm trying tonight to see if it makes a difference.

http://macintopics.com/2011/12/13/apple/mac-os-x/why-your-mac-wont-sleep

Finally! I do not have Avast! installed. I was getting frustrated by all of the problems that Avast! caused for others, because it was keeping me from finding a solution. I took my MBP into the Apple Store and they could not fix the problem. They simply said that something must be running in the background. It is sad that they did not know this terminal command. I ran it only to discover that Boom 2 was preventing the computer from going to sleep. I will test this by turning off Boom before I shut down. Hopefully this should solve my long standing battery issue.

Thanks!