Battery Life significantly! reduced just by loading Maverick

So when will Apple address this major issue?
Just do a search and see that a lot of people have experienced this. My battery life was cut by 2/3 the moment I loaded Maverick. I loaded it based on the promise of improved battery life. THIS IS A LAPTOP. BATTERY LIFE IS EVERYTHING!!!!
HAS ANYONE FOUND A REAL SOLUTION? Everything I read are well meaning people offering standard advice about battery life. Please do not add more standard book advice here (i.e. close programs you are not using, etc. duh). Please respond to what we are saying, "My battery life was cut by 2/3 the moment I loaded Maverick." How do I fix it?

I haven't had any problem with my battery so far. it's just probably that you been playing around with it too much. besides with the new apps store and the applications it might take more juice now.

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Hi. Beginning a little over a week ago my battery life suddenly reduced by about half. My iPhone is warmer now, even when it's not in use. It wasn't coincident with anything I noticed, e.g. no new iOS release, no change in application use. I've reviewed my Location Services, no unexpected grey GPS symbols (and no purple of course). Does anyone have any ideas as to what might cause this?

Lots of people have lots of ideas:
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3481668?tstart=0
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3482083?tstart=60
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My iPhone 5 was in 50% battery life when it just turned off and it won't turn on and when i plug it to my computer itunes wont recognize it and i cant turn it on

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Just down loaded mavericks

Hi Apple fans
I just down loaded mavericks and now adds are popping up constantly, I mean constantly. I upgraded from snow leopard.
should I reload snow leopard? or put my mac back to new condition and try loading mavericks again?
Or is mountain lion better? considering my mac is 5 years old, or there a bouts
any thoughts ?
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Battery life significant drop

So Running a brand new macbook (bought over christmas break)
I was getting at least 4hrs of battery life when off the charger, but recently as soon as its off the adapter I only get max 2hrs of life. i recently calibrated it based off the apple instructions but it seems to get me less life than before

Reset your SMC by shutting down, unplugging the magsafe, taking out the battery, and holding down the power button for five seconds.
Are you sure it is actually lasting two hours or is it just what the indicator says? That indicator is based on the CPU usage at that moment so it may be limited by what you are doing at that second. Are your fans running more than usual? Check Activity monitor and sort "All Processes" by CPU to find out if something is taking up a lot of CPU power. That can easily decrease your battery life. Some general tips are to decrease the brightness on the monitor backlight (or let the ambient light sensor do its work by keeping the brightness at least one tick below the maximum), turning off bluetooth if not being used, same with IR (security prefs), and wifi if not in use.
Go to Apple System Profiler (Apple Menu-About This Mac-More Info-Power) and copy/paste the battery info.

It seems like my wifes iphone is not holding its charge like it should, i just finished trying to enhance the battery life , t i just noticed this tonight, any help i would really appreciate. Thank you.

It seems like my wifes iphone is not holding its charge like it should, i just finished trying to enhance the battery life , i just noticed this tonight, any help i would really appreciate. Thank you.
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Battery life is reduced

Hi Everyone, I am new to the forum and I hope you can help. I have a Curve 8900 which I have had for around 18 months with good battery life. About 8 weeks ago it started to fade quickly and not last long at all. I thought the battery had run its course so purchased a new genuine battery, fully charged and discharged at least 10 times and is no better than the one it replaced. It even runs flat from full when switched off for a couple of days.
My network provider is orange although it was BT but the problem started before this.
I also get email on the phone.
I hope this is enough info.
Thanks for your help.

Discharging the battery continuously is not recommended for these Lithium Ion type batteries.
Here are some good charging tips, please read and you'll see that many of them will apply to you.
http://www.blackberryfaq.com/index.php/Maximum_Battery_Life
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Increasing battery life by reducing processor speed.

Is it possible for me to limit the amount of power that goes into the processor? i have tried using speedit and coreduotemp but i can't get them to work.
You see i mostly use my laptop to play music out loud whilst i'm at work, and i'm sure i could get a much better life out of it. I remember i got about 6 hours on my ibook g4 1ghz, and my macbook pro is 2.4ghz and getting 4 hours at most, and runs rather hot. i use the fancontrol system preference application to reduce the fan speed when i want more life and increase it when actually use it.
can anyone help me out?

Running Windows will completely disable any processor control and there are no fan control programs that operate in Windows and work with a Mac. That wouldn't be a feasible solution.
I'm not aware of Windows having a built-in mechanism allowing the user to reduce processor voltage. Windows does use processor stepping to reduce the clock speed under certain usage conditions, but so does OS X.

I was recording the birth of my nephew my phone had low battery life and it just turned off? It didn't save my recording automatically is there anyway where I kan retrieve that video footage?

I was recording the birth of my nephew my battery was low and so my phone turned off and didn't automatically save the video clip is there any way of retrieving that video footage or is it lost forever? :(

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Improving the 2013 Macbook Air i7 battery life

Hi
I've checked couple of topics related to this issue seems many people suffer from this problem, i7 8gb ram with 512gb ssd Macbook air has some issues with its battery life it reduced very quickly. I've applied some techniques -like smc reset,deleting launch daemons and agents- and have an improvement in battery performance. Now the point is, when i do the EtreCheck there are many kernel extensions displayed in the report. Is there any way to delete them and slightly improve the battery life?
Here is the output:
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013)
          MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir6,2
          1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
          8 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel HD Graphics 5000 - VRAM: (null)
System Software:
          OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 0 days 13:15:5
Disk Information:
          APPLE SSD SM0512F disk0 : (500,28 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499,42 GB (372,12 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
USB Information:
          Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
          Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper:
          Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions:
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          [not loaded] com.nike.sportwatch (1.0.0) Support
          [not loaded] com.novamedia.driver.IceraUSB_MSD_Bypass (1.3.0) Support
          [not loaded] com.novatelwireless.driver.3G (3.0.13) Support
          [not loaded] com.novatelwireless.driver.3GData (3.0.13) Support
          [not loaded] com.novatelwireless.driver.DisableAutoInstall (3.0.13) Support
          [not loaded] com.option.driver.Option72 (2.15.0) Support
          [not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionHS (3.26.0) Support
          [not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionMSD (1.21.0) Support
          [not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionQC (1.11.0) Support
          [kext loaded] com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.67) Support
          [not loaded] com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverVSP (0.0.67) Support
          [not loaded] com.vodafone.driver (3.0.9) Support
          [not loaded] com.vodafone.driver.Data (3.0.9) Support
          [not loaded] com.zte.driver.cdc_ecm_qmi (1.0.26) Support
          [not loaded] com.zte.driver.cdc_usb_bus (1.0.26) Support
          [not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMSamsung (0.0.2) Support
          [not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMSmartplugSCSIDevice (1.0.1) Support
          [not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMUSBCDCACMControl (3.2.12) Support
          [not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMUSBCDCACMData (3.2.12) Support
          [not loaded] de.novamedia.oem.vodafone.vtp.huawei.cdc (0.0.2) Support
Problem System Launch Daemons:
          [running] de.novamedia.nmnetmgrd.plist Support
Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
          [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
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          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
User Launch Agents:
          [loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist Support
User Login Items:
          None
Internet Plug-ins:
          FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
          QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
          Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
          Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
          o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.1.18709 Support
          SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.1 - SDK 10.6 Support
          googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.1.18709 Support
          JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version
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          Open in Internet Explorer: Version: 1.0
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
          AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins:
          Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
User Internet Plug-ins:
          OctoshapeWeb: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.8 Support
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player Support
          MusicManager Support
          Xmarks for Safari Support
Time Machine:
          Skip System Files: NO
          Auto backup: YES
          Volumes being backed up:
          Destinations:
                    My Passport Air [Local] (Last used)
                    Total size: 465.41 GB
                    Total number of backups: 1
                    Oldest backup: 2014-02-20 22:28:07 +0000
                    Last backup: 2014-02-20 22:28:07 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Excellent
                              Backup size 465.41 GB > (Disk size 0 B X 3)
          Time Machine details may not be accurate.
          All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
Top Processes by CPU:
               3%          WindowServer
               1%          hidd
               1%          mds_stores
               0%          fontd
               0%          warmd
Top Processes by Memory:
          82 MB          Google Chrome
          52 MB          Google Chrome Helper
          49 MB          mds_stores
          41 MB          Calendar
          33 MB          WindowServer
Virtual Memory Information:
          6.03 GB          Free RAM
          998 MB          Active RAM
          97 MB          Inactive RAM
          633 MB          Wired RAM
          522 MB          Page-ins
          0 B          Page-outs
Is there any other suggestions that you may offer ? Many thanks

You can use the new Activity Monitor to determine a unitless "Energy Impact" value:
You can also click the battery icon in your Mac's menu to reveal significant energy hogs (UPS is shown below):
Whereas Apple recently updated their apps to take advantage of Mavericks' energy saving algorithms, few other vendors have. I surmise the prominent "Energy Impact" hall of shame addition to the new Activity Monitor is Apple's subtle way of nudging them into compliance.
Google's plethora of invasive OS X system modifications is a popular reason for excessive battery drain. Google has yet to demonstrate the ability to develop efficient OS X apps, and one can only surmise they are not interested in doing so. If you elect to use Google Chrome or any other poorly implemented OS X programs, you must accept the detrimental effect they will have on performance and battery life.
If you no longer use a Blackberry, uninstall RIM's software. Be sure to follow its uninstallation instructions.

2.1 Upgrade problems with Contacts & Calendar & Battery Life

I upgraded a couple of days ago and wish I hadn't. After the upgrade my Contacts were no longer there, my calendar hadn't synced and the battery life is worse than before. I tried the gently approach initially by resetting my iPhone but after that didn'r improve anything I used iTunes to restore my phone. It did work to some extent and the contacts reappeared briefly but if I tried to use Contacts the phone froze and then kicked mr out to the main screen.
Don't get me wrong, I think the iPhone 3G is great and suits my requirements very well and the previous version of the firmware didn't cause me any issues appart from some of the free apps started to misbehave just before the upgrade. I'll take back that bad behavious if I could get the contacts & calendar th function as they did.
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DaveJmcd wrote:
The 2.1 update hasn't been very successful for me either...
The battery life has reduced significantly. Since the 2.1 update, my battery is dead before I get home from work!!! Pretty shocking really....which means it lasts about 8-9hrs. Majority of that is on stand-by.
Plus every app takes an absolute age to load and it takes an age to return the home screen when exiting apps.
If anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears....
Is your 3G on all the time? You might want to check that, cuz 3G does eat a lot of battery. Do you have wi-fi on? Usually wi-fi does drain less then 3G when it's connected to one network but if you are walking around, and the wi-fi doesn't connect, it will search for another network and it can cause to eat up battery while searching. So if you aren't going to use wi-fi, just turn that off. Same with 3G. if you don't use 3G then turn it off, and turn it back on when you use it. Usually 3G is faster data, so faster internet than Edge.
How often do you fetch? Push?
If you have almost everything ON, that could be the reason why your battery dies quickly.
Maybe try testing it with everything off like 3G, wi-fi, push, and see if that helps.
If none of this work, then have you considered rebooting your phone (pushing home and sleep/wake at the same time for more than 6 seconds until the apple logo screen appears)? Have you tried restoring your iphone from itunes?
If this still doesn't work, or your not satisfied, I'd suggest going to the Apple store and have the genius take a look at.

Macbook battery life on yosemite

Hi,
I updated my macbook air to yosemite and battery life has reduced. I just use word and safari for my work. No special softwares. Can anyone tell me the solution to this?
Thanks

So here is an update: I've followed the article posted by OGELTHORPE (Thank you!). What I actually did is 1. Reset the SMC and 2. Reset the PRAM (MacBook Air SMC and PRAM reset).
What I've seen so far: Once I did the reset, I would guess that the system needed to re-calcualte again the battery charge. Initially after I disconnected from power, it started with a measurement from under 3:30h. After 45 minutes running on battery it is showing again 8:45h remaining @ 93% charge. What I noticed is that every time I put the laptop to sleep this repeats - starting with some low time measurement and slowly climbing. I think that this could be a bug in the software and the battery charge calculation method is somehow not working properly. I wonder after those resets if the OS needs to get into a couple of battery charge cycles and the battery is calibrated again?
I don't recall having this issue with the last year's release of Mavericks.
I hope someone from Apple sees this and address this with the next OS X update.

Why "Home & Lock Screen" consume more than 20% battery life in iOS 8.3?

Hi, I also got the battery issue after upgrading to the iOS 8.3.
My battery will drop from 100% to 30% within 4 hour battery usage (you can find this is the data in the Settings->General->Battery Usage->Usage)
When I go to check the battery usage of each app, I see "Home & Lock Screen" use 23% battery within 24 hours.
I just dont understand what does "Home & Lock Screen" do basically, and why it consumed so much battery usage?
Anyone has idea or the similar situation?
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(I did an experiment by myself in these days)
1. Turn off the hands off
2. Turn off the non-necessary background app refresh
3. Turn off the Suggested Apps, both My Apps and App Store
4. Set the location service for every app into "While Using" if you are able to
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Poor battery life since Yosemite upgrade

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Since upgrading to Yosemite I have noticed that I only get about 5 hours of battery life, even when just running Safari and Mail. I have checked the battery life and it is reporting as good. I have also reset PRAM and SMC but that didn't seem to change anything. Here is a dump from EtreCheck but I couldn't find anything obvious there either. Does anyone have any ideas or is this battery life as good as to be expected?
EtreCheck version: 2.1.6 (109)
Report generated 16 January 2015 10:03:43 pm AEDT
Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
Click the [Support] links for help with non-Apple products.
Click the [Details] links for more information about that line.
Click the [Adware] links for help removing adware.
Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) (Technical Specifications)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro10,1
1 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4-core
16 GB RAM Not upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
Wireless: en0: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 156
Video Information: ℹ️
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Color LCD spdisplays_2880x1800Retina
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - VRAM: 1024 MB
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Time since boot: one day 0:6:44
Disk Information: ℹ️
APPLE SSD SD512E disk0 : (500.28 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 499.05 GB (320.69 GB free)
Core Storage: disk0s2 499.42 GB Online
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox
[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (4.3.12) [Support]
[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.3.12) [Support]
[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.3.12) [Support]
[loaded] org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.3.12) [Support]
/System/Library/Extensions
[not loaded] com.ZTE.driver.ZTEUSBCDCACMData (1.3.12) [Support]
[not loaded] com.ZTE.driver.ZTEUSBMassStorageFilter (1.3.12) [Support]
[not loaded] com.sierrawireless.driver.SierraDIPSupport (1.0.0) [Support]
[not loaded] com.sierrawireless.driver.SierraFSRSupport (3.0.0) [Support]
[not loaded] com.sierrawireless.driver.SierraHSRSupport (3.0.0) [Support]
[not loaded] com.sierrawireless.driver.SierraIPDirect (1.1.5) [Support]
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Support]
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist [Support]
[running] com.sierrawireless.SwitchTool.plist [Support]
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Support]
[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist [Support]
[loaded] com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist [Support]
[loaded] com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist [Support]
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.startup.plist [Support]
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[not loaded] org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist [Support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
iTerm Application (/Applications/iTerm.app)
Sony Ericsson Bridge Helper Application (/Users/[redacted]/Library/Application Support/Sony Ericsson Bridge for Mac/Sony Ericsson Bridge Helper.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.257 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.257 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.6.0 - SDK 10.8 [Support]
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.38.6.0 - SDK 10.8 [Support]
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 71 Check version
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
Adblock Plus [Installed]
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player [Support]
Java [Support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
Macintosh HD: Disk size: 499.05 GB Disk used: 178.36 GB
Destinations:
Elements [Local]
Total size: 999.83 GB
Total number of backups: 7
Oldest backup: 2014-11-08 00:36:51 +0000
Last backup: 2015-01-14 10:41:24 +0000
Size of backup disk: Adequate
Backup size 999.83 GB > (Disk used 178.36 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      6% systemstats
      3% WindowServer
      2% Safari
      1% Activity Monitor
      1% hidd
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
498 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
429 MB Safari
189 MB mds_stores
172 MB WindowServer
155 MB Dock
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
7.67 GB Free RAM
7.43 GB Active RAM
683 MB Inactive RAM
1.39 GB Wired RAM
1.30 GB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
Jan 15, 2015, 09:57:31 PM Self test - passed
Cheers, Jason

A SMC reset may help:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
Ciao.

W530 Battery life

I recently bought a W530 for school and after charging and booting up for the first time I noticed at full battery it only has about 2 hours of battery life. I figured it was all the extra crap Lenovo put on that was running that was causing the bad battery life so I installed Ubuntu on it. The battery life moved up to about 2.5 hours fully charged. I was wondering if I have a bad battery or the battery life is really just this bad.

You guys sure are doing something wrong. My W520 clocks in at 6-8 hours on a 9-cell battery doing regular student stuff (less gaming).
I keep my CPU throttled (on purpose) to 50%, although I know for a fact that it can attain full clocks. This is to prevent high loads on the battery as I'd like to have this pack last me as long as possible.
Run this: http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/26992-optimus-test-tools-finally-in-users-hands/
See if anything is unnecessarily loading the discrete graphics adapter.
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