10.6.2 Poor battery charge persists

I just updated to 10.6.2 on my late 2008 2.53 and the charge still isn't going over 3 hrs at full charge. In fact, I'm sitting here watching it decrease from 3 hrs to 1.1 hrs in about 20 min of use. Almost a 2 hr drop in 20 minutes???
WTH is going on? I bout this new in July and it shows 85 battery cycles

I had a similar problem with 70-75% less than normal battery life after installing 10.6.2. Also, the bottom of my early '09 MBP would get hot and the fan would run loudly. I did the PRAM reset / shut down / battery removal & replacement routine, which seemed to help. But only temporarily.
I've since found that turning off plugins in Safari seems to be the permanent fix. Specifically, I think it's Flash 10.x that causes some kind of runaway process that doesn't show up on Activity Monitor or on the "top" command in Terminal.
So, if you can live without Flash and other Safari plugins, it would be interesting to see if this works for other people. There is apparently a way to run .swf file without Flash, using Javascript, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Apple implements this technology ASAP. (Until Flash is eventually killed off by Quicktime, HTML5, etc.)
Here's the non-Flash .swf demo: http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/

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iPhone 4S Poor Battery Performance SOLVED!!
I found the issue with the iPhone 4S battery performance.
I bought 2 iPhone 4S models on the first day. One for my wife and one for me. The strange thing was that mine would kill the battery in 4-6 hours and ran VERY WARM to the touch. My wife's phone worked great. It was cold to the touch. She would forget to charge it at night... and the battery performance was great... even better than our prior 3GS models.
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TimothyW wrote:
iPhone 4S Poor Battery Performance SOLVED!!
I found the issue with the iPhone 4S battery performance.
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What was the difference? I have my phone connected to Exchange for my corporate email. But exchange is not exactly the problem. The issue is in Notification Center. For some reason, I had hundreds of calendar reminders that kept refreshing on notification center. Furthermore, the reminders would flicker between the time remaining and the start time for the event at such a fast rate that it could not be read... (clearly a bug)
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I like most other N95 users have experienced poor battery life, to the point of almost giving up on it.
I had been consistantly getting poor life even down to a couple of hours with all power hungry devices turned off.
Now my phone, with what I would consider average use, lasts up to 2 days on a full charge.
Like most people, I guess, I took it straight out of the box and plugged it in the wall charger and left it over night. I did this for the first week with still poor battery life.
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I still have Wi-Fi scanning off and GSM turned off, I havn't got round to trying it with these functions turned back on.
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19-Jun-200705:12 PM
abua wrote:
WHAT??!? 200 hours on standby??
The truth, is this phone was made to be constantly plugged into car handsfree kit (not bluetooth) so that its constantly on charge. Bit like how a car GPS navigation unit, although removable, is constanly on charge while you are in the car driving.
Hence why the compromise- big power hungry screen and applications and hardware, low battery, but ok as constantly on charge.
Nokia Do NOT have a car kit for the N95 beleive me I have tried
I have been in touch with Nokia several times
The best I could do is a brodit active holder for car use
Yes The N95 should have a car kit but it does not have the pop port so will only connect on BT using even more battery power
So thats not the reason for the poor battery
Mine sometimes can last 10 to 15 hours and other days goes flat in under 3 and it is charged every night (it has to be) My N73 lasted 3 days and my 6230 last 2 weeks
Nokia user / modder since Nokia Orange and Mobira user too before that

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