Thanks all for your replies. I'll try what you said Queen6 tonight. Failing that, I'll check my battery during the day with films etc to see if it is near Apples claims to check mine isn't faulty.
If your going to test the battery with video playback it will need to be hardware accelerated same as Apple. As you Mac is waking up to complete a task, yet it is seemingly unable to, try to leave it running for 24 hours, and prevent it from sleeping in Energy Saver, it may just be as simple as this, as once the task is complete, normal behaviour will resume.
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Could you explain what you mean by hardware accelerated and why I need to leave it 24 hours (plugged in I guess or the battery will die)? Not quite sure what you're trying to say, sorry.
I doubt it. The settings were transferred with migration assistant from my MBA, and the MBA did not have this problem. No new software installed.
But is there anyway I can check if something is going on in networks while asleep?
Well, one of the reasons I use OSX rather than Windows is Migration assistant. Sure, if you're not a busy person, and have all day to play around, yes, please go ahead and do everything manually.This is probably playing a large part in your issues. I set my rMB up as new, and migrated data manually using a hard drive and network transfers. Migrating everything from one system to another using migration assistant can cause issues like this. It transfers settings from one mac to another, and in your case, a different model with different capabilities. I'd restore, set up as new, and manually transfer the data from a backup by navigating your backup folders in finder, and dragging what you want back.
I't says its waking up like 10-15 times during the night, the most common being ARPT (network).Leave it to sleep overnight and then run this command in Terminal, if the issue persists. OS X does perform tasks when the user is offline.
cat /var/log/system.log | grep -i "wake reason"
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Well, one of the reasons I use OSX rather than Windows is Migration assistant. Sure, if you're not a busy person, and have all day to play around, yes, please go ahead and do everything manually.
I't says its waking up like 10-15 times during the night, the most common being ARPT (network).
I've attached it below.
To connect to what? It's connected to my wifi perfectly fine.Nothing unusual other than the frequency, leave it to connect and see if that will help to resolve.
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To connect to what? It's connected to my wifi perfectly fine.
and leave it like that for how long, over night?Set you Mac to stay awake...
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and leave it like that for how long, over night?
How do I make my mac not sleep? I've changed loads in the Energy Saver preferences yet after 30mins or so the screen still locks and i need to enter my password again. Also, what does EC.SleepTimer mean in terminal? That seems to cause my mac to wake up more than network reasons now.Yes, this will allow any maintenance, communication with Apple`a servers to complete. You have nothing to loose, one of my Mac`s had a similar issue this resolved it. Remember you to manually set the system not to sleep in System Preferences - Energy Saver. More and more the OS is communicating externally, like it or loath it...
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How do I make my mac not sleep? I've changed loads in the Energy Saver preferences yet after 30mins or so the screen still locks and i need to enter my password again. Also, what does EC.SleepTimer mean in terminal? That seems to cause my mac to wake up more than network reasons now.
Ok, i'll try that this afternoon. I just played a 2 and a half hour film and lost 35% charge (77-42%) yet Apple claim 10hours video playback. They test using itunes whereas i used quicktime which i thought would be less power intensive anyway....Select do not sleep in preferences, the display will turn off, however the system will remain powered up. EC.SleepTimer is part of the Sleep preferences and can cause some users Mac`s to prematurely wake up to change system sleeps states. The system should transit to a deeper level, clearly yours is not. Rather more a vicious circle as it`s being woken prior to fully hibernating with the timers resetting, likely by network access and or an application that will prevent the system sleeping.
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Ok, i'll try that this afternoon. I just played a 2 and a half hour film and lost 35% charge (77-42%) yet Apple claim 10hours video playback. They test using itunes whereas i used quicktime which i thought would be less power intensive anyway....
I still think it's the router. I took the rMB to my office, and the experience was completely differentIn that case, it's probably not the wifi directly causing the problem, but rather some program keeping the network connection alive and preventing the computer from going fully to sleep.
That option is only available for Power Adapter, not for Battery. And I already put it off for Power Adapter, not that it should matter when it's on battery.System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Wake for Wi-Fi network access
Your router (or something else, but most likely your router) is checking in on your MacBook to see if it's still available, etc. This can be done for thing like verifying bonjour services and names, and to let other devices know that your Mac is available for file sharing, Back to My Mac, and Find My Mac, as well as iCloud related services (like iMessage).
Last night I went from 100 - 93% so that's a small improvement.