Mavericks 10.9.2. drains my 2013 MBA's battery incredibly fast while sleeping.

8 hours of closed lid and NO battery drain after removing nosleep and citrix apps!

The initial slope is actual use.

good news then.

There are a limited number of peoples, due to 10.9.2 incomparability of certain applications, are experiencing battery drain in sleep

all such peoples should verify what applications are open at sleep and selectively close them to pinpoint the APP at fault.

In which case 3rd party software makers are at fault for having incompatible applications that are disturbing the sleep-power use of the Air when in sleep mode.

After a couple of tests myself, I can attest that the problem is the compatibility of some softwares with the new release of Maverick 10.9.2.

I would not say that Apple has not responsability in this as everything was working fine before this release, but if your battery drains during the night (or on a period of over 8 hours) to 0% in deep sleep mode it is because one of the sofware you have installed is not compatible with 10.9.2 and the computer cannot go into deep sleep.

For many of us, including myself it is Parallels or VMWare that was not suspended before going to sleep. For somone else it can be another software. This is why some of the users have seen their Mac going back to normal from a clean install, but after reinstalling some of their old softwares, the problem surface again.

I would suggest you remove any software that is currently running in memory that is not part of Maverick default install one by one until you find the one at fault. I know it is not an easy task, but this is the only way for now as reinstalling Maverick would not solve your problem in the long run if you reinstall the software(s) at fault.

In the mean time (if you are not in the mood for this exercise) I would suggest you Power off the computer as draining the battery like this over and over is really not good for its longevity. I'm sure the software developers would fix this issue in any of their releases (unless Apple find the probem and fix it for good).

Best of luck.

My take is that this is squarely in Apple's court to fix. A piece of equipment that was working fine until you apply an urgent security upgrade (aka 10.9.2) now no longer works correctly.

As you note there appear to be many pieces of software that trigger this problem -- this suggests that either they all have the same bug (that only manifests in 10.9.2) or that 10.9.2 introduced a bug. I lean to the latter -- especially given the way that 10.9.2 was released. Apple had to release it in a hurry to close a very serious security issue. I suspect that they had not finished testing this version before releasing it. [I would love to have been a fly on the wall in those meetings!]

A question to anybody from Apple: Is this issue being tracked in your internal bug tracking system? This is a simple Yes or No question.

I expect a high quality OS not to allow any application to disturb the power management performance of its hardware. I buy Mac products because I expect quality in the integrity of the platform.

I am having the exact issue that you all describe. Last night, when my machine was really hot...I force quit VMware fusion since that seemed to be causing the issue. My battery drained to 0% so I am ******. Any luck with VM ware fusion?

100% agree with biznice's simple statement! Straight up... My MacBook Air's worked PERFECTLY with Parallels 9 & Windows 8. Walk away or snap shut and loose maybe a percent or two of battery overnight. Add Mavericks 10.9.2 and they drain at a crazy-high rate unless I remember to quiet Windows (i.e. close Outlook, etc). That is ********.

And by the way, bad news, I have been installing the pre-releases of 10.9.3 and there is no improvement as yet (and they are very close to public release of 10.9.3).

This *****.

Hi all

I had the same problem and tried various 'fixes' but nothing worked. Also happened sometime following latest Mavericks update.

I then tried reinstalling Mavericks (only), leaving all my apps and data intact. This also had no effect.

As a last resort, I completely erased my mac air (2012 version) and installed mavericks from scratch. That was 3 weeks ago and my mac air has been stable since. Battery discharge is a few percent when in sleep. Over the 3 weeks I have been gradually adding my applications and data, including building a new parallels VM with Windows 7. The laptop is now pretty well in its full configuration, with parallels and applications and is still stable,

So my guess is that there is something in the update that does not like a specific application(s) and using update OS there is an instabilty somewhere. A complete OS install first then data and apps over the top worked for me. My impression is that Mavericks itself is not the culprit, rather the update with pre-installed apps.

Anyway, hope this may help others.

Cheers

Steve

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I have just fixed my late 2013 retina MacBook Pro from this verry issue.

I too, encountered a dead battery on mutiple occasions after leaving the rMBP to Sleep with ~80% battery remaining, only to wake up the next morning to a dead battery.

I logged my encounters with Apple Support who assisted me as best they could. I reset my SMC and PRAM but it had no effect. At one point, I was convinced that the Diagnostics pointed me to an Address Book Contact synchronization issue that endlessly ran in the middle of the night (log entries showed it attempting sync multiple times a minute for hours on end) until the battery finally reached 1% and shut the unit off. But this was a side effect and not the root cause of the issue.

After encountering this issue of a dead batter at least a half dozen times, I booked an appointment with the Genius Bar. I had backed up using Time Machine before heading to see them and on site, all hardware tested fine. It was a software issue. They then restored the OS back to a clean Mavericks OSX 10.9.2. and asked me to slowly reinstall progams keeping watch for the reappearing battery draining symptoms over the next week. I've since reinstalled all programs and apps that I normally use and had installed prior to the OS restoration with the exception of AVAST (antivirus... i know, i know.. the OS has malware/etc. detection built in.)

My retina MacBook Pro has been going strong overnight on battery with only 1-2% of discharge over 8 hrs. Sweetness!

TL;DR: UNINSTALL AVAST. It's screwing with your software and refuses to allow the rMBP running Mavericks to maintain Sleep, which kills your battery.

I've already logged this with Avast here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=145533.0

I hope that this helps someone. I know how frustrating it is when a super piece of hardware is brought to its knees by (crap) software.

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I think that this is more of an indication that there is something about the upgrade from 10.9.1 to 10.9.2 rather than about AVAST (which I'm not running).

Someone else also reported that backing everything up, reinstalling from clean and then adding back all the apps cures the problem.

This points to a bug in the upgrade process. Come on Apple, you can do better than this.

Well, just for heads up, I did go through the major hassle of a fresh install of 10.9.2 without it getting better. Also, I do not have the problem running OSX only. The problem is when Windows is running inside Parallels (which is the predominant situation in this thread).

I did not know this was an issue for anything but MBA's. So, the post by RickityRoll above may not be applicable to this discussion.

I plan to fresh-install 10.9.3 on my MBA's when it's public and ***** like a wild man if it's still broken.

Thanks all.

FWIW, I was having the same issue running Windows under VMWare Fusion, until they updated to version 6.03. I have limited time running 6.03, but I have not seen either the battery drain issue or the sleep/wake failure I was having since the Fusion update.

How an operating system that should be sleeping can allow an application to drain the battery to 0% is another question entirely.

So, here we are, almost 3 months since the original Mar 3 post, and at least for me, the official 10.9.3 (upgrade) release did not fix this problem. Periodicaly when I snap shut my mid-2013 MBA, it stays running and drians or kills the battery. Has anyone had complete success with a clean install of 10.9.3? I do not want to go through the hassle unless the probnosis for success is good.

I haven't installed 10.9.3 yet, but I have "fixed" the probem in 10.9.2 by doing two things before closing the lid:

1. suspend/hibernate etc the VM (Windows 7 under parallels)

2. quit "mail" app ... which seems to be the biggest "culprit" for activity while Mac sleeping

Since doing this, my battery does NOT drain when the Mac is sleeping. Yeah I know a bit of a hassle to do this every time, but what else? : (

I hear ya. Yes, that is a work-around.

But as biznice so clearly put it way back on May 3, "I expect a high quality OS not to allow any application to disturb the power management performance of its hardware. I buy Mac products because I expect quality in the integrity of the platform".

And I added on May 7, "100% agree with biznice's simple statement! Straight up... My MacBook Air's worked PERFECTLY with Parallels 9 & Windows 8. Walk away or snap shut and loose maybe a percent or two of battery overnight. Add Mavericks 10.9.2 and they drain at a crazy-high rate unless I remember to quiet Windows (i.e. close Outlook, etc)."

I went through the major hasle of a virgin 10.9.3 install. No joy. Same problem!

There's a flurry going on at Parallels on the same topic. Not fun watching both companies dance around this serious problem.