I believe there is, but I am not versed in it. I would look around, it might be worth a try!
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Why do Macbook Pro's Drain Battery While "Sleeping"?
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This might help, I think there is a patch listed on the initial start of this thread on running Mojave on non-supported Macs and Hackintoshs: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-10-14-mojave-on-unsupported-macs-thread.2121473/
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Installed, MBP lid closed at 100%. Will report back in the morning.
Sounds good! Might take a day or two for the Spotlight to finish indexing, but hopefully after one or two nights you’ll be able to get a better feel for the battery drain.
Hopefully. I lost 12%
I closed the lid so I would have thought everything was paused including indexing. Hopefully that was it. I’m not optimistic though.
Mohave is cool though and runs perfectly on my unsupported classic.
If it’s helpful, I’m sure that I’ve seen in activity monitor, that MS office doesn’t support power nap.
I think someone else in this thread says that your machine doesn’t support power nap anyway, but still I guess this could be a factor.
I don’t know what frameworks and libraries that MS build Office around but it almost seems like they’ve got an emulation layer thing going on there.
Resize a pages document window and you’ll see it’s a smooth process.
Do the same for Word and you’ll almost certainly see lots of dropped animation frames.
Maybe you’ll get a better performance if you close all office programmes when you want to sleep your machine? Or even not use it all if possible...
Yeah, I wondered about office last year when I was racking my brain and trying everything. When I did a clean install back then I waited to install anything, including Office. It still drained without office loaded. I need Office, but I never keep it running when I put it to sleep by closing the lid at night.
Ok, I turned off [allow blue tooth devices to wake this computer] by unchecking it, however, notifications was already configured to DND when sleeping. Fingers crossed.
No I believe it will continue indexing even when the kid is closed. I usually keep it plugged in for the first couple days overnight to let it finish, then test it out after that.Hopefully. I lost 12%
I closed the lid so I would have thought everything was paused including indexing. Hopefully that was it. I’m not optimistic though.
Mohave is cool though and runs perfectly on my unsupported classic.
Hopefully it improves, I can’t imagine what else would cause the issue. Forgive me if you already mentioned this earlier in the thread, but you don’t have any third party devices (flash drives or other) plugged into the laptop do you?
I had it connected to power overnight, but unplugged it at 4:00 A.M. @ 100%. Just checked it at 8:15 A.M. and it lost 8% down to 92%, so I would say no, it didn't work. I expect it to continue to drain today. My guess is when I leave work at 5:00 P.M. it will be in the 60% range leaving it untouched and closed all day.
I am sorry that didn't work for you! I wish that had worked for you, as I know it definitely worked for me..
Last night I turned off my computer at 100% at 12:30 AM, and I just started using it right now at 9:55 AM and it is at 100% still. Something definitely sounds up with your computer (although I am guessing you already know this, lol). Sucks to have a quirk like that that you can't really get fixed it seems.
I do, but I think just because I had just installed Mohave, I didn’t used to. I’ll kill it.
I tried killing it and it didn't make much difference. I'm having similar issues to you.
I'm just wondering how Painter's device maintained 100% after 9.5 hours? While I think losing 10% in 6 hours is ridiculous, I would expect to lose SOME battery while Find My Mac is enabled. Or heck, even if it's not.
I don´t know what the hell is going on in Mojave... I was lucky to get my MacBook Pro sleeping/hibernate in High Sierra with modifying hibernation timers but after update to Mojave things are much worse. My MacBook Pro is not sleeping/hibernating at all, my external hard drive wakes up and goes to sleep all the time when MacBook is supposed to sleep. Pmset log is full of all kinds happenings every hour so something is keeping it wake. Also now I get "disk was not ejected properly" error again after login (it means my external hard drive which is constantly waking up when MacBook is sleeping).
Yes I do, I have it enabled on all my devices.
I should note too that I have notifications turned off when the display is sleeping, and the example of last night I had closed all apps before closing the MacBook Pro for the night.
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Since the update, some nights I lose 1-2 %, (but not more than that), and other nights I lose nothing at all. Before on High Sierra I was losing up to 8% a night with the same settings as I have on now.
I typically use my computer throughout the day, and then I plug it into my Caldigit TS3 to charge and process Time Machine backups, and unplug it once it hits 100. After that I’ll let it sleep for the night.
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Edit: I do also want to mention I have noticed it seems that my MacBook Pro’s WiFi disconnects every time while sleeping now (it shows searching for WiFi for a second after waking), where on other macOS it didn’t seem to do this.