Battery Life Has Certainly Dropped
Hi folks. I'm having yet another issue with my Macbook. This time the battery life is not lasting anywhere near as long as it should be. With a full charge, it usually lasts about 2:30, whereas when I first bought it it lasted a significantly longer time. I'm doing nothing visually strenuous, just typical internet research/ichat. I will do a calibration as recommended by some other posts on here, but I don't know if that will totally fix this issue. The laptop is only 6 months old, so it's a bit bothersome. Any recommendations? Thanks so much in advance! I already had to have the trackpad replaced once, and the ethernet port doesn't even work anymore, so I'm becoming so annoyed with this computer, even though I love it.
How many cycles has it done?
I got my latest one july 10th, heres the battery spec:
Battery Information:
Battery Installed: Yes
First low level warning: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 4647
Remaining Capacity (mAh): 4638
Amperage (mA): -1532
Voltage (mV): 12287
Cycle Count: 169
I close down my bluetooth and try not not have cd's in, at the moment my battery life is 3:07, wifi on, disc in, about 5 programmes open.
I can get this up to over four hours if I close down wifi, etc.
For instance I have just turned down the screen to lowest visible and i now have 3:43.
Thanks
Nick
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3. Limit push notifications (apps and e-mail accounts - set e.g. e-mail to fetch once an hour) to those you really need.
4. Limit location services to those you really need, and watch to see if the indicator comes up.
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7. Suggestion by others that iCloud may be involved, and to try to turn off some iCloud settings.
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Use Your iPad Regularly
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1 1.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
8 GB RAM
Video Information:
Intel HD Graphics 5000 - VRAM: 1024 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
AirPlay: Version: 1.7
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.1
Startup Items:
HDDFanControlDaemon - Path: /Library/StartupItems/HDDFanControlDaemon
NortonMissedTasks - Path: /Library/StartupItems/NortonMissedTasks
SMC - Path: /Library/StartupItems/SMC
SymAutoProtect - Path: /Library/StartupItems/SymAutoProtect
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OS X 10.8.5 (12F45) - Uptime: 0 days 0:13:9
Disk Information:
APPLE SSD SM0512F disk0 : (500.28 GB)
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
RAWAIR (disk0s2) /: 499.42 GB (230.02 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
FireWire Information:
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Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
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com.parallels.virtualsound (1.0
com.Symantec.kext.SAVAPComm (12.1)
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Problem System Launch Agents:
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[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
[loaded] com.hidden.daemon.plist
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
[loaded] com.parallels.mobile.dispatcher.launchdaemon.plist
[loaded] com.parallels.mobile.kextloader.launchdaemon.plist
[loaded] com.raynersw.nshctldo.plist
Launch Agents:
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
[loaded] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist
[loaded] com.citrix.AuthManager_Mac.plist
[loaded] com.citrix.ReceiverHelper.plist
[loaded] com.citrix.ServiceRecords.plist
[loaded] com.parallels.mobile.prl_deskctl_agent.launchagent.plist
[loaded] com.symantec.quickmenusa.application.plist
[loaded] com.symantec.savdiskmountnotify.application.plist
[loaded] com.symantec.scannotification.application.plist
[loaded] com.symantec.symsecondarylaunch.application.plist
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[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist
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[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
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iTunesHelper
Citations
HDD Fan Control Monitor
Dropbox
Google Drive
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Flash Player
HDD Fan Control
SymAutoProtect
Symantec\nQuickMenu
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CitrixICAClientPlugIn.plugin
Flash Player.plugin
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MeetingJoinPlugin.plugin
QuickTime Plugin.plugin
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Silverlight.plugin
SlingPlayer.plugin
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Bad Fonts:
None
Time Machine:
Mobile backups: ON
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Volumes being backed up:
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Destinations:
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134% Dropbox
14% mds
14% Creative Cloud
3% SymAutoProtect
3% WindowServer
2% Finder
1% fontd
1% EtreCheck
1% hidd
0% taskgated
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188 MB WebProcess
175 MB Dropbox
172 MB mds
172 MB Safari
139 MB Finder
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66 MB Creative Cloud
66 MB Google Drive
41 MB WindowServer
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51 MB Free RAM
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4.47 GB Inactive RAM
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After Mavericks install, your "time remaining" WILL BE INACCURATE until you do a SMC reset in many case
SMC reset
Shut down the computer.
Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected.
On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time.
Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
There is a HUGE distinction here about someone getting less batt. life in actuality .......or are they just reading the "time remaining" and using that as a true indicator which is certainly is not.
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IPhone 6 Plus battery life seems to drop non-linearly
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For example, after the battery indicator dropped to 90% usage I calculated out how much the battery life would be at that rate and got like 19 hours!
But at 80% usage it dropped to 13 hours.
And so on... subsequent calculations have it multiplying out to 12.5 hrs, 12.3 hrs, 11.2 hours , 9.3 hours and now at 55% battery it multiplies out to 9.2 hrs.
I wonder why the more time passes the remaining percentage seems to drop at an accelerated, rather than a linear rate. Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks,
dougThe rate of battery loss is still slowly accelerating. At this rate I expect less than 8 hours usage time.
I wrote a review of my new iPhone 6 Plus here and brought up the issue:
http://lerner.net/dougs-review-of-his-new-iphone-6-plus-first-day-impressions/
If anybody has any ideas, or comparative battery life results, please let me know.
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I purchased my Iphone 5 on the day of release, since then I have had a 2 day battery life on average, since upgrading to IOS 6.0.2, the battery struggles to last for 4 hours, is there any solution or fix?? If not any idea when this will be fixed?? Is there anyway to revert back to IOS 6.0.1?
HELP!!!It is unlikely that this problem has anything to do with iOS 6.0.2. It is possible that the update process itself has caused some settings on your iPhone to become corrupted.
Here are some steps to deal with this:
1. Close all apps (use the app switcher; double tap home, press and hold an icon, click the "-" signs)
2. Go to Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset All Settings. (Does NOT delete apps or any data; just resets network/iOS settings)
3. Wait for iPhone to restart.
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No toggle between 2g and 3g ... battery life has decreased
will there b any option to toggle between 2g and 3g in future ? because till ios 8.0.2 update there is no toggle option to switch your network to 2g and in areas where 3g network is not good the battery life of iphone has decreased significantly.. including mine and many of my friends.. we have wifi at our home and we dont need any cellular data.....
It's highly unlikely. All supported carriers operate 3G/HSPA+/LTE networks. Most are in the process of completely killing off their 2G/EDGE networks.
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Many will not read such posts.
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