Yosemite Battery Drain

Patience Putney....and I know it's very hard to do considering it's been some time. Apple will put us all through the wringer before they will admit they messed up yet again. The only way they will take notice is for everyone to continue to scream at them about the problem. Then someone will launch yet another lawsuit. It took a long time for Apple to admit to the logic board problem. These posts helped in establishing a pattern and a problem and once the lawyers got involved they had these posts to draw on. Apple will act eventually. I'm on my 4th logic board and have been in and out of Apple since a week before it went off warranty. I've heard a lot of excuses. Enough that I'm convinced the Apple geniuses are told what they can say and what they can't. First they denied the problem saying they hadn't seen anyone with it before, then it slowly escalated to yes there is a problem, we want to do right by our customers....etc...and then the admission by Apple. As I take my MacPro in for it's final (I hope) logic board fix I will now start addressing the battery issue. Yosemite did indeed change something and they need to figure it out. If you live near an Apple Store just keep taking it back in. Launch Activity monitor and take pictures or screen shots as the battery drains, noting the time. It's all useful evidence.

I completely understand you, I lived the same thing a month ago. But, that's exactly why we must keep this thread alive. And if even more people roll back to Mavericks (wich restores the battery life time), we can show better that the problem really is Yosemite and not our kind of use, apps or hardware defects.

I've done all the fixes suggested and nothing works for my 2011 MBP. Today had Mavericks reinstalled at the Apple Store....didn't do a thing, same battery drain. Guess it's now only for use as a desktop.

Diane, to get your battery life back, you have to do a Clean Install of Mavericks. Then, you can try to empty your battery and charge it until 100% with the laptop completely off. Worked for me. MBA 2013.

same problem here. I'm always hesitant to upgrade to new software because of these types of issues when everything is working just fine. apple always has issues with battery life anyway, BUT, since my upgrade to Yosemite, it's eating the power very quickly. can't work very long without connecting to power up again. and yes, the machine gets very hot as well.

can't work very long without connecting to power up again. and yes, the machine gets very hot as well.

The two symptoms are related. Something is using up CPU cycles which is causing both the shortened battery performance and the heat.

Use your Activity Monitor to identify the programs involved. They are most likely 3rd party software.

However, you should post your own question instead of hijacking a 9 month old post with 36 pages of responses.

Folks,

Saddly, we can't solve the problem by ourselves while running Yosemite (in any version). The only "solution" we have is to perform a clean install of Mavericks and if anyone feel ok with that, is drain the battery to 0% (real 0%), unplug the battery internal connector from the logic\battery board for a while, connect it again and charge to 100% (while turned off). Anything else like checking the Activity Monitor, apply updates of any kind or anything you can think, didn't work until now. Hope when the final version of El Captain is released, the problem has been solved and we can forget about this shamed version of OSX.

Remove Avast per the developers instructions, then reboot

If no improvement remove all of this stuff

[unknown] cinemas-+-plus-+.ver [Click for support]

[loaded] cinemas-+-plus-+_updater.plist [Click for support]

[unknown] cinemas-+-plus-+_updater.sh [Click for support]

[loaded] com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate.plist [Click for support]

[failed] com.crossrider.wss002448.agent.plist [Click for support] [Click for details]

[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist [Click for support]

Thank you for the reply 🙂

I did uninstall Avast.

As for that stuff, I've no idea where I can find it... I found where Launch Agents and Daemons are, but couldn't find User Launch Agents from the Finder, any tip?

Thiago Martins wrote:

Folks,

Saddly, we can not solve the problem by ourselves while running Yosemite (in any version). The only "solution" we have is to perform a clean install of Mavericks and if anyone feel ok with that, is drain the battery to 0% (real 0%), unplug the battery internal connector from the logic\battery board for a while, connect it again e charge to 100% (while turned off). Anything else like checking the Activity Monitor, apply updates of any kind or anything you can think, didn't work until now. Hope when the final version of El Captain is released, the problem has been solved and we can forget about this shamed version of OSX.

Who are 'we'

Yes, I meant all of us of this topic. We have 36 pages and around 9 months of lots of tentatives that show the fact that we can't solve this problem (saddly). We tryed everything you can imagine. Even about third-party software. Even a clean install didn't solve a couple times.

Yes, is a tiny quantity of user. BUT, if you search for the problem you'll find more on the web. And yes, El Capitain will not fix our (not mine, our) if we don't do as you said; Wich is exactly the same thing I've been saying all the time...

But, you are free to keep trying using something that many others said don't work. If you find any other solution we will be glad to read\help. 🙂

What's your problem? Why do you feel the need to belittle and mock people in this thread? This thread has over 130,000 views, maybe it is still only a small fraction of people who have this problem, but what does that have to do with anything? If you believe this problem doesn't actually exist in Yosemite, despite that some of us have received confirmation from Apple that it does, why even bother coming into this thread?

This thread has 512 replies, many of them from the same person.

You have nothing of value to add to it. Unless .... post this "confirmation from Apple, I'd like to see it, I assume that you can post it as you say that you received it.

I already have. So has other like bkolas, and you went onto mock him too. You have a problem, you clearly spend too much time here and you add nothing by acting as a bullying fanboy who refuse to accept that his favorite company could possibly have messed something up.