Yosemite battery drain solution found?

Good luck with that! In the massive thread that details the logic board issue Tim Cooks email and other phone numbers were posted. No one got any positive results. In may case, the next time I'm where our Apple store is...2.5 hours away, I will be taking my MBP back to Mavericks. I'll have them do it. I can afford to do it with this particular laptop...nothing to lose. Now, someone said they did that and the problem still persisted. If that's true than I think we're all screwed. Apple does not seem to care about the minority of us that are experiencing a wide variety of problems. They would rather pursue the iCar and spend money revamping the stores and paying dividends. Psychologically, after 3 logic board replacements I really do feel like just chucking it into the garbage. But then they will and are not held accountable. By the way, my daughter did not upgrade to Yosemite and has no battery problems. Please post if you find any contacts...always worth a try. Even posted on the apple Facebook page....they never check that either.

To be honest, the people at the genius bar and the senior advisor on the phone were trying their best to help me. But unfortunately, we couldn't solve the problem and at that point they had never heard of the issue before, telling me that if there would be a change in the battery life it should be a greater one since Yosemite is supposed to increase battery life (and that no update would worsen things on purpose, which actually makes sense). I just don't understand the fact that some computers are really okay where some others are not (my coworker had bought the same laptop only one year after me and his really is fine, lasting 8 hours on average).

My warranty was over a week after the issue so at this point I'm stuck with this issue until god knows when it will be fixed (if it will ever ber fixed).

EDIT: Sorry, was trying to respond to Pariseau 🙂

I've been trying to get on with Apple support but my computer is too "old" and they won't grant me an exception. Apple NEVER admits that the issue is theirs - that much I've found -- they do go ahead and work on the issues though.

Diane

that is just so frustrating - like I said in a previous post -- since Steve Jobs death, Apple Customer service has gone downhill! I'm going to dig around and see if I can resurrect some contacts I had with Apple when I ran my computer lab.

I couldn't agree with you more pariseau....frustrating. The only good thing is that my MBP issue was caught 1 week before my extended warranty was up. So far they have kept the replacements coming without charging me. In the mean time I bought a mac mini, giving up on laptops. It has two issues which seem to be related to Yosemite. My MBP now has the logic board issue and the battery drain issue. My husbands iPad has an issue. There were two issues with my iPhone. Quality is just not a company standard anymore. Yet I just can't go back to a PC, especially when they're now charging yearly just to use some of their products like Microsoft Office. NO way. It's only been in Jan of this year...going in for the 4th logic board, that the genius finally admitted there was a problem and Apple needed to do the right thing. But then we still have the problems don't we.

I will ask them to do that when I take my computer in -- I'm very software savvy but don't like to mess with hardware!!

Just make sure that everything is backed up and that anything you don't want to lose is accounted for. It's not just wiping and replacing the osx. From what I gather that doesn't actually do the entire job. I wish I could be more specific but I just don't recall. Perhaps it has something to do with programs that had been updated to Yosemite compliance.