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Drains battery in sleep - High Sierra / MacBook Pro Early 2013

My setup:

MacBook Pro Early 2013

High Sierra 10.13.4

FileVault On

First of all, I used all recommendations I had found on Internet regarding the Battery drain issue during sleep, including:

- clean install of the latest Mac OS (10.13.4)

- reset NVRAM, SMC

- restore to defaults "Energy saver settings"

- turn off WiFi, bluetooth

- disconnect usb and all other cables

- use only Safari (no chrome)

- turn off various services (like dropbox)

- various settings via pmset

- etc.

No major changes. In fact, I even changed the battery in the official Apple service center! It shows "Normal" now.

I read all the posts on various forums. It is my last hope to find a solution before switching to "power off only" way to use with the Mac.

46% at 1.04 am - closed lid

0% at 10.00 am - opened lid

Other days I tried leaving 100% charge. It doesn't matter.

Current pmset - g:

System-wide power settings:

Currently in use:

standbydelay 4200

standby 1

halfdim 1

hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage

powernap 0

gpuswitch 2

disksleep 10

sleep 10

autopoweroffdelay 28800

hibernatemode 3

autopoweroff 1

ttyskeepawake 1

displaysleep 2

acwake 0

lidwake 1

Any ideas how to track the issue or what else to do?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), macOS High Sierra (10.13.4), null

Posted on Apr 6, 2018 1:14 AM

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brogers010

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Posted on Jun 21, 2018 5:13 AM

I finally solved the problem with my MacBook Pro. I have a USB wireless mouse. If I remove the USB transmitter the computer no longer heats up in sleep mode and the battery does not drain. If the USB transmitter is left plugged in, the battery drains from 100% to 62% in overnight sleep mode and the computer is warm. This has been an issue since the 10.13.4 update.

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Jun 15, 2018 1:25 AM in response to .dalailama

I'm glad I'm not the only one having this problem.

It all started at the 10.13.4 and still persists at the 10.13.5 update.

Tried everything mentioned on this thread other than a clean install.

Don't really know what do to

.dalailama Author

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Jun 15, 2018 1:33 AM in response to TomaszOO

Thx for sharing. As I mentioned before. I tried that. Does not work for me. Also, from my personal experience, the device does not always go to 0%. Often I put it in my backpack and it does not heat up, does not drain the battery. BUT every now and then it still heats up and drains the battery with the lid closed. So I cannot rely on it to keep the battery fully juiced. Just imagine, you take your laptop and put it in your sleeve or a backpack only to find out that the battery is dead before some important meeting, or the temperature of the laptop is destroying the device. Still no reliable solution for the issue.

Jun 22, 2018 2:12 AM in response to brogers010

Unfortunately this doesn't apply to me. I don't have anything connected to my MacBook Pro. Just suddenly began experiencing the battery drain in sleep mode since updating to 10.13.4, and still not fixed in 10.13.5. I really hope Apple fix this because I always used to have 100% battery in the morning out and about — since I got the laptop in 2013. Now my battery is around 35 mins drained, and I don't see why I have to leave it plugged in overnight or charge up in the morning before I go out now.

Ridiculous that a supposed 'update' to the system makes life worse than before! Apple need to get macOS working solidly again.

.dalailama Author

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Jun 22, 2018 2:19 AM in response to cafewriter

Hey folks, I got tired of the issue and will be trying new Mac OS Mojave. This time I will go with the Developer Beta (Important! I did not have any developer betas on my Mac OS High Sierra. So the issue is not related to beta). Mac OS Mojave is still in beta 2 at the moment, so it might be even worse, but I need this for my work. I'll let you know if it is any good. Also, general public will be able to update in the Fall. My guess is that they will be focusing their efforts on Mojave and not on High Sierra. Hope they 'll make the battery life good again for both OS.

terryhcw

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Jun 29, 2018 9:16 PM in response to .dalailama

Hi All,

I had same situation on my 15" Macbook Pro (mid 2015), 100% at mid night and hibernate until at noon, Now only 54% battery left. Also the machine temperature is higher then before upgrade, when charging, I feel the charge plug temperature is hot and the machine body is hot. So now I will turn off my mac when put it into the bag.

I think it is a bug on Mac update after upgrade to new version.

Does somebody has same problem on machine temperature?

Regards

Terry Ho

Jul 6, 2018 1:44 AM in response to .dalailama

I have the same issue. I also did a full disk erase, fresh install and then installed all apps one by one, migrating the Library data only of selected apps. Still getting a battery drain.

Tried also removing my SD card: same issue.

My hardware is a MPB 13" Late 2013 with Retina running 10.13.5

I lost one full day of work for nothing, so frustrated.

Jia_Shi

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Jul 22, 2018 10:40 PM in response to .dalailama

Exactly same issue with my rMBP Early 2015 (macOS High Sierra 10.13.6).

Battery became from 100% to ~50% over night. Tried all the ways can be found from Google and nothing works, happy to see I'm not the only one suffering this issue.

NIWOR852

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Apr 8, 2018 8:51 AM in response to .dalailama

My laptop's battery drain started after I upgraded to 10.13.4. also, i noticed my laptop heats up faster.

NIWOR852

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Apr 9, 2018 2:09 AM in response to .dalailama

also using filevault and everything. even have kaspersky, malwarebytes, vpn, adobe cc, but the this batter drain is very quick compared to the version earlier

Apr 12, 2018 6:18 AM in response to alexandru257

and this happens after UPDATE to 10.13.4

bilal86

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17 points

Apr 12, 2018 6:27 AM in response to alexandru257

Exactly

This is too frustrating

When we are getting a fix?

in fact are we getting a fix?

mtstoll3

Level 1

4 points

Apr 14, 2018 11:21 AM in response to TomaszOO

I am experiencing the same problem since 10.13.4. Close the lid at 100% and open the next morning and 15%. They screwed something up with the update. Can we roll the update back?

Gil 2

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4 points

Apr 15, 2018 12:07 PM in response to Gil 2

oops, sorry, it's 10.13.4

Apr 29, 2018 2:53 AM in response to .dalailama

same problem with Macbook pro 2016 since upgraded to 10.13.4. Looking forward for a fix from Apple.

May 1, 2018 2:33 PM in response to .dalailama

Same issue here! So frustrating. Apple please find a solution.

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