I have noticed that my battery seems to be draining fast while the macbook is sleeping.
Its a blackbook, core duo, 2gb ram.. According to iStat Pro my health is 92% and the cycle count is 102.
Earlier today the battery was at 80% i just opened the mac up to write a email and closed it right back.. about 3 hours later the battery dropped down to 76%..
Seems kind of hight 4% for 3hours.
Recently I've been noticing that my MacBook Pro's battery has been draining really fast. It's draining about 5% every 7 minutes. The battery condition is normal and it only has about 290 cycles on it. My brightness is turned all the way down, bluetooth is off and the only application I have open is Google Chrome, and I'm only using it to do some light browsing. Does anyone have this same problem? I have a MacBook Pro (mid-2010) running the latest version of Lion?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
For no apparent reason my battery is draining rapidly. Mac Book Pro
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I purchased a Macbook Air 2011 in December. It came with Lion preinstalled and it is up-to-date. Sometimes I experience excessive battery drains when the computer is asleep (lid closed), i.e. 40%-50% battery charge gone overnight.
This is not an expected behavior. The battery seems to perform well when the system is running, i.e. it last for 5-6 or more hours, so I think the problem is with the sleep mode. How can I diagnose sleep problems? Is this due to WiFi or running programs?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
when i first recieved my macair it was not charged dipite that the catalog says that is should be ready for used. I charged it and it worked pretty ok, and i even put it to sleep and no problems occured. however when i shut it down for a few hours i openned it to find that the battery was completely drained. it's doing it all the time when i shut it down! how could that be.? This is a mid 2013 13" model.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
-Model Name: MacBook Pro
-Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
-Memory: 4 GB
-OS X Version 10.9.3
When starting up it must be connected to the charger and when i turn it on it makes the bing noise, goes to the apple screen with the wheel turning for a second and shuts off. I have to do this multiple times until it works. Another issue that I am having is that the battery is draining very quickly. I just had it replaced a couple months ago.
I bought my Macbook Pro 13 inch last year in August. The health is on 88% with 84 cycles. Original battery capacity 5450 maH, current battery capacity 4809 mAH (Coconut and Istat Nano). I just read in another thread that there are users who have higher health capacity with many more cycles! I took it to the Mac store in Bangkok two weeks ago since I believe that my battery drains quickly. They run a test and told me that my battery is healthy. Then they also downloaded some updates for my Mac and run disk repair under disk utility. The technician told me that these are heavy programs and if they battery drains very quickly there is something wrong.
But according to him this was not the case. I have a 500 gb hdd and the technician said that since this is a big hdd (he recommended 320 gb maximum for 13 inch macbookpro), it will use more battery usage. I don't use heavy programs, only internet (Facebook, gmail, very seldom watch movies, watch news papers), Itunes and sometimes Word. I do a lot of photo processing, but this I always do with my adaptor plugged in. I think I can only use around 3 hours. Sometimes 4 hours. Screen around 80% brightness. Keyboard lights, bluetooth turned off. Do you think that there is a problem with my battery? Oh and I do calibrate my laptop monthly.
I have recently started using iTunes to listen to music while surfing the web or using other non intensive programs such as Inkscape. It appears that iTunes decreases my battery life considerably more than any other program that I use, even if I have a song on pause. While using iTunes my fully charged battery will display 4 to 3.5 hours of life remaining. When I have iTunes closed my computer will display a battery life of 7 to 9 hours, often with usage times the exceed that. Has anyone had similar experiences with iTunes and poor battery life, or am I doing something wrong here?
P.S. I have already calibrated my battery.
The title says it all, basically my MBP's battery drains even if the computer is plugged. When I sat at my desk to use my MBP earlier today I noticed the battery was charging. That seemed very weired, I was sure it was at 98% last night. I decided to switch my computer off and let it charge all the way up.
When I turnt on my computer again i checked the battery and everything seemed normal, but after half an hour or so I noticed that my battery status icon had chaged from charged to not charging. I loaded up Coconut battery and the battery was slightly over 90%...and it's still draining out while tipyng... The AC socket is fine and I have an HDTV connected to the same power source. Needless to say the tv is working normally... I do not have an Apple shop nearby, the closest is over 200 km (approximately 140 miles) away.
This morning I set to work on my laptop as usual. I typically leave it plugged in while not moving around, and today was no exception. I h ave a 15" macbook I purchased in December of 2010, and it's currently running OS X 10.6.8, if that makes a difference.
Anyhow, when I started up my Macbook and set to work, the battery was fully charged (indicator read that it was fully charge, and that the power source was the power adapter). The power adapter light was green. I then stood up and did some work for roughly 2 hours away from the laptop. When Ieft, I put the display to sleep - In the background the machine was still running a webbrowser (reading an all-text page) and preview (a PDF was open). This is nothing out of the oridinary, and I do it all the time usually.
What was unusual was when I returned to my machine after 2 hours of idling (with the display asleep) to find that my battery had been almost completely drained. The power adapter light was now orange, and the indicator showed that the battery was only 4% charged. The power source was still displayed as the power adapter.
I understand that during intense processses the Macbook will draw from the battery AND the power adapter - But my Macbook was simply idling! I can't fathom that a webbrowser and Preview would require THAT much draw for power. In fact, I've run my Macbook MUCH more intensely for much longer periods of time when running Final Cut and Adobe After Effects and NEVER seen this issue before.
Is this an indication of a failing battery? Ever since I noticed this, the charging time indicated has held steady at ~1:13 (that's been about a half an hour now). I don't know if the Macbook will discharge the battery completely every so often by itself, or if the battery is just failing and that's why it went from 100% to 4% in just under two hours while idle.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
The last couple of days my battery has been draining extremely quickly, at full charge it indicates that I will get about 2 hours battery life when previously I was getting 6 to 7 depending on what I was doing. Also, I have noticed that the fan is running almost constantly and at high. I'm running os x lion and this is a late 2011 model MBP 13".
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Im facing a problem with my macbook..my battery drain after upgrade to lion. Before with snow leopard it took at least 5-6 hour to finish while streaming movies but with lion it took 2 hours to drain.. why ...
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Mac OS X (10.7),
my fan is constantly running draing battery very quikly.
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MacBook, iOS 5.1.1
I upgraded my 500 GB hard drive to a 750 GB, 7200 rpm. Now my MacBook Pro's fans are always on and my battery only lasts 2 hours. I got at least 6 hours before the switch.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 8 GB ram
It shows a battery capacity of 5393 mAh out of 5770 mAh with a condition of "normal" at 93% health. The issue is that the battery has been draining MUCH faster than usual. Yeah I know it depends on what I'm doing/Youtube/Flash blah blah blah. I get it. What usually took 6-8 hours of normal time to drain is now taking 2 hours, max. I reset the PRAM, etc --- not much different. Now, here's the BIG issue. I have NEVER been able to recalibrate my battery because after it hits 10-15%, the computer just shuts off. It never goes into sleep. This has happened every single time. Has this ever happened to anyone before? The Apple Store is ways away, and I don't want to waste time going if they're just going to tell me my battery is "normal" since I haven't hit my 80% health indicator.
View 7 Replies View RelatedRecently my battery seems to be draining faster than ever before. I'm not sure why. I haven't changed any "display" settings & it's on default settings for brightness settings, etc.
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Mac Pro, iOS 5.0.1
Several weeks ago I upgraded my mother's MacBook to Lion. I had also intended to buy lion for myself but my iMac's hard drive died.Since Lion was installed the MacBook's battery life has been very, very poor - even booting up can cost 5%. A lot of people gave been discussing this. I have googled this issue and emailed Apple, but there seems to be no solution on the horizon. So I am going to reinstall Snow Leopard on the MacBook. I had intended to contact Apple to see if a refund would be possible. However, just yesterday I replaced the hard drive in my iMac and it is working fine now. So I was wondering since I paid for the Lion OS, is okay for me to install it on my iMac rather than attempt to get a refund. Is that legal? And would it work? Would the fact that it was bought using my mother's AppleID (my money though ;)) mean that if I install it on my iMac it will make my computer my morher's computer - meaning my morher's login and details will overwrite mine?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI installed the hard drive with no problem and have experienced greater performance, no clicking nor vibration, and no freezeup or rainbow wheel. I also did a clean install of Snow Leopard. I did a PRAM reset at the beginning and calibrated my battery. However, now I noticed my battery is draining FAST, only lasting 2 hours. I looked a little online and discovered I may still need to reset the SMC (shift-control-option + power key), which I will do shortly. The battery lasted 6-7 hours before with my old hdd and is at 96% capacity.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI get the whole part about that I set my laptop to go to sleep in 5 minutes, and if I close the lid it'll go to sleep, and the little light at the bottom starts to pulse, etc. But in sleep mode, my battery seems to drain extremely fast!
For my old Gateway M275 laptop while in sleep mode, it would probably lose about 5-7% of it's battery in a day's duration. With my MacBook Air, I just came back to it tonight after a day's worth of sleeping, and my battery was down to 16% from 29%. And to check, it was indeed sleeping!
Basically my i5 15" MBP will run the battery right down till it switches off without sleeping. Then it will have to be charged till it switches on again, and it boots up fresh.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI returned my 17 i7 MBP for a 15 i7, I have been torn between the 2. My question is the 15 battery seems to drain alot while sleeping. last night I was around maybe 40% and went to bed and now its 0%. coconut battery says 100% health. The 17 did not drain that much over night.
I will check it out tonight just to make sure I was right re the charge before bed.
I calibrated it last week.
Any thoughts? both 15 and 17 should get the same battery time?
I make an SMC-Update in July. At this time, when close my book i lost in a time of 10 hours 25-40 % battery!
Before i install the update, i only charge my battery every 2-3 weeks. Since this update every 2 days.
What can i do?? I make an Smc reset, install Mavericks again, install yosemite....
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I have a MBP i7. I'm pretty sure I was able to charge the iPhone when my macbook sleeping both on battery and plugged in. But now I can only do that when it's plugged in. Any suggestion how can I charge the iPhone with the macbook sleeping on its battery?
View 3 Replies View RelatedSo my Macbook Air 11" was plugged in all night, was using it this morning plugged in. Battery was at 100%. Unplugged it but left it closed all day (7am to 4pm)opened up up and battery indicator says 9% is gone and it's busy charging away now. I have noticed this over a few days now.
Thats a little harsh no? It's supposed to last 30 days or whatever when its sleeping but it won't last a week at this rate.
I recently purchased a 17" Mid-2010 MBP and put in 8GB and a OCZ Vertex 2 SSD drive. Ever since the upgrades and clean install of OS X, my system seems to not like to go to sleep when the battery gets low.Example, I was surfing the net earlier and the battery got down to 5% and I didn't get any type of warning that the battery was low. It went all the way down to 1% and then 0% and then just shut off instead of putting itself into sleep mode like it did before the harddrive and memory upgrade.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a sleep problem with my MacBook (9400M White). I recently resolved a problem where it wouldn't go to sleep by itself if left inactive on battery power (regardless of energy settings) by resetting the SMC and PRAM/NVRAM but now something else has popped up. Now, whenever I cycle my battery down to past the low battery warning popup, it just eventually completely dies. Shouldn't it go to sleep first? That's what my old iBook G4 would do. I doubt it's something related to the SMC or PRAM/NVRAM since I just reset those. What else can I do? I'm pretty sure my MacBook should still have enough juice go to sleep.
View 8 Replies View Relatedis battery calibration as simple as fully charging and then draining battery ,or is there more steps?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI get my first macbook yesterday. Loving it! Got the White model, the first refresh of the year, just before this june refresh, buy I don't care.
So, here's the deal. I gonna use this machine 80% of the time in my home, not gonna move it from the desktop. So I'm using right now without battery, connected to the macsafe. Should I keep it that way? or I need to put the battery? Because I heard that if the battery is always there and the macbook is connected to magsafe, the battery die fast. I also don't know if that I'm doing is safe for the Macbook, to say without batery.
When I first remove the batery, something really strage felt off the macbook, was like a tiny tiny tiny little metal, works well without it, but I want to be sure that's nothing importante.
I bought my white Macbook less than two years ago, and updated to Lion last summer. But I recently found that the battery goes down very fast, it could be down to 50% within an hour even though it has just been charged. And for the laptop itself, it gets hot very easily! What's the problem of my Macbook?
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
