spasel Author

Level 1

31 points

12% drop in battery overnight..confused

Last night I closed lid on my MacBook and 12 hours later, it went from 100% to 88%.

I ran the EtreCheck and will post it here..trying to figure out what is happening.

Thank you

EtreCheck version: 2.9.13 (267)

Report generated 2016-07-11 16:01:10

Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

Runtime 1:38

Performance: Excellent

Click the [Support] links for help with non-Apple products.

Click the [Details] links for more information about that line.

Problem: No problem - just checking

Hardware Information: ⓘ

MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2016)

[Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

MacBook - model: MacBook9,1

1 1.2 GHz Intel Core m5 CPU: 2-core

8 GB RAM Not upgradeable

BANK 0/DIMM0

4 GB LPDDR3 1867 MHz ok

BANK 1/DIMM0

4 GB LPDDR3 1867 MHz ok

Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

Wireless: en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac

Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 15

Video Information: ⓘ

Intel HD Graphics 515

Color LCD 2560 x 1600

System Software: ⓘ

OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 (15F34) - Time since boot: about 13 days

Disk Information: ⓘ

APPLE SSD AP0512J disk0 : (500.28 GB) (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 315 MB

Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB

Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 498.97 GB (442.43 GB free)

Encrypted AES-XTS Unlocked

Core Storage: disk0s2 499.31 GB Online

Gatekeeper: ⓘ

Anywhere

System Launch Agents: ⓘ

[not loaded] 6 Apple tasks

[loaded] 145 Apple tasks

[running] 87 Apple tasks

System Launch Daemons: ⓘ

[not loaded] 45 Apple tasks

[loaded] 149 Apple tasks

[running] 96 Apple tasks

Launch Daemons: ⓘ

[loaded] com.microsoft.autoupdate.helpertool.plist (2016-05-28) [Support]

[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist (2016-05-06) [Support]

User Launch Agents: ⓘ

[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2016-05-27) [Support]

User Login Items: ⓘ

iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

Google Chrome Application Hidden (/Applications/Google Chrome.app)

Other Apps: ⓘ

[running] com.etresoft.EtreCheck.115232

[running] com.google.Chrome.58272

[loaded] com.microsoft.Excel.63072

[loaded] com.microsoft.autoupdate.fba.64032

[loaded] 372 Apple tasks

[running] 216 Apple tasks

Internet Plug-ins: ⓘ

Default Browser: 601 - SDK 10.11 (2016-05-27)

QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-05-27)

Silverlight: 5.1.50428.0 - SDK 10.6 (2016-06-24) [Support]

User internet Plug-ins: ⓘ

CitrixOnlineWebDeploymentPlugin: 1.0.105 (2013-04-25) [Support]

3rd Party Preference Panes: ⓘ

None

Time Machine: ⓘ

Time Machine not configured!

Top Processes by CPU: ⓘ

17% kernel_task

5% WindowServer

3% hidd

1% fontd

1% Google Chrome Helper(10)

Top Processes by Memory: ⓘ

1.34 GB Google Chrome Helper(10)

802 MB kernel_task

246 MB mdworker(14)

213 MB Google Chrome

123 MB Messages

Virtual Memory Information: ⓘ

618 MB Free RAM

7.39 GB Used RAM (2.30 GB Cached)

318 MB Swap Used

MacBook, iOS 9.3.2

Posted on Jul 11, 2016 1:03 PM

36 replies

Lanny

Level 6

13,225 points

Aug 26, 2016 10:45 AM in response to spasel

Read this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201714

Pay particular attention to:

On portable Macs:

The Ethernet port turns off, if applicable (see note below)

Expansion card slots turn off

The built-in modem, if present, turns off (see note below)

An AirPort card, if present, turns off (see note below)

The USB ports only responds to the power key on an external keyboard (see below)

The optical media drive, if present, spins down

Audio input and output turns off

Keyboard illumination, if a feature of your portable computer, turns off

A computer uses considerably less power when in sleep mode than when awake. The computer will continue to power RAM in sleep mode, so that whatever was in RAM when the computer went to sleep will still be there when the computer wakes. This also means that computers with more RAM use slightly more power in sleep mode.

Note: Portable computers have no network connectivity when in sleep mode, but can wake if the Energy Saver option "Wake for network access" is enabled.

spasel Author

Level 1

31 points

Aug 27, 2016 6:42 AM in response to Lanny

Well I am totally stumped.

I reset my energy saving setting to Default as was recommended...booted into safe mode, restarted, etc. NOTHING works.

Closed machine at 10:30pm EST and reopened just now, 9:41am. 96% battery when I closed it...88% when I opened it. So 8% loss in less than 12 hours when supposedly the machine is asleep.

This never ever happened on my MacBook Air 2013. Never

Lanny

Level 6

13,225 points

Aug 27, 2016 10:12 AM in response to spasel

Instead of closing the lid to put it to Sleep, try putting it to Sleep by just selecting Sleep from the Apple menu and leaving the lid open.

I have a MacBook Early 2015, and in the past, on several occasions, it wouldn't accept the Sleep menu command because the Mail appication canceled the command. When that occurs, you get message shown on the screen, but if the lid was closed, I wouldn't have seen it.

junkmail

Level 1

8 points

Sep 12, 2016 10:42 AM in response to spasel

This is a major issue for me right now. At the end of the day, I disconnect my 2016 MacBook from an Acer USB-C monitor and then close the lid. The battery is always at 100% at the end of the day. When I open the laptop the next morning and plug in the USB-C display, the computer acts like it is starting up from being previously powered off--all of my open apps have been quit and all previous finder windows are closed. The battery is now around 60%.

Dec 11, 2016 7:28 AM in response to spasel

Have the same issue. New MacBook Pro Retina 15, sometimes it is losing nearly 10-12% overnight.

It is regular but not permanent. Sometimes it loses it, sometimes not. May be it is because i migrated from older MacBook. I reinstalled os without cleaning everything, has been entering safe mode. It fixed Apple Store login issue i had, but battery drain still remains.

ZaZo

Level 3

860 points

Dec 11, 2016 8:06 AM in response to darkomen86

If you search the Internet for this problem there are literally 100 of threads pertaining to this. It boils down to a common problem but with many sources. There is one thread on this community, that I can't find now where an individual goes through Console Logs and shows what to look for and how to configure an XML file to stop. I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but it's out there somewhere.

The consensus was that the newer machines boot so fast, why not turn them off, a pain we are not used to, but a short quick fix in the mean time.

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12% drop in battery overnight..confused