iBooks drains battery when not connected to Wifi

I confirm having the same problemm.

OSX Yosemite 10.10.1 on MacBook Pro retina

Only when disconnected from Internet storeaccountd takes 100% of cpu and drains the battery like there is no tomorrow.

Not only ibooks consumes more battery, but there is a lot of lag and it is unusable in the best of times. So I have done looking around and it turns out, there is this process called storeaccountd which takes a good chunk of the CPU power. From whatever knowledge I have; it looks like it is trying to connect to the iTunes store and when there is no wifi the process just keeps running. I hope one of the mods look into this, and respond with a good solution.

Edit: looks like you have already mentioned the link to another discussion the same topic.

Same problem here in Vienna. I can count down the battery percentage on my MBA11 mid2013, while ibook tries to connect somewhere.

I tried it with updates, but this annoying behavior still continues.

Really disappointed by apple, I will swap to another program to read my books.

I tried also following steps from another forum post, and this helped until now:

reset PRAM by real restarting the mac and pressing option+cmd+"p"+"r" twice

--this brings some settings to factory - don't wipe your hardest here! just restart again.

delete plist in your terminal (launchpad/others/terminal) by following two inputs:

• rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
• killall Dock

I can not find the original post now, but I thank here for the person, who gave this temporary solution.

OS-X 10.10.1 MBA-11 Mid 2013

power with safari on (now): 527mA

now turning ibooks on (wifi on): 895mA and back to 629mA

now closing ibooks / turning wifi off and turning ibooks on: 621-->454mA (552 to 777 with wlan on again)

Best from Austria

I confirm this.

I was using my macbook pro without internet connection, and wifi turned off.

I noticed my battery was draining much quicker than normal and the macbook felt hot, while doing nothing really heavy duty.

When checking I found the "storeaccountd" doing some heavy work.

After closing iBooks everything went back to normal.

So, It seems to be a common problem...

Brgds,

Koen

Thank God. Update 10.10.2 fixed this. Updated yesterday night.

just updated, and yes, the problem seems to be fixed 🙂🙂

Koen