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[Allergic2BunnyEars]

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/12/13/mac ... indicator/

macOS Sierra 10.12.2 Removes 'Time Remaining' Battery Life Indicator

macOS Sierra 10.12.2, released this morning, features several key bug fixes and addresses an issue that has plagued some customers who purchased a new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar -- battery life.

Apple believes that the battery life indicator in macOS Sierra is ultimately inaccurate and has led to some confusion about battery performance, and so it has been removed in macOS Sierra 10.12.2.

Going forward, the battery icon in the Mac's menu bar will offer a look at remaining battery percentage, but it won't provide estimates on how long the MacBook Pro's battery will last. Here's what Apple said about it to The Loop:

Apple said the percentage is accurate, but because of the dynamic ways we use the computer, the time remaining indicator couldn't accurately keep up with what users were doing. Everything we do on the MacBook affects battery life in different ways and not having an accurate indicator is confusing.

Besides the apps we are working on all the time, there are a lot of things that are happening in the background that users may not be aware of that affects battery life.

MacBook Pro buyers have complained about getting less than 10 hours of battery life, reporting as little as three hours of battery life in some cases, but battery performance can vary significantly based on the apps and processes that are running.

Customers with poor performance may be using apps that are not optimized for the new MacBook Pro, and on the 15-inch machine, if an app engages the discrete GPU, battery life takes a significant hit. For MacBook Pro owners who are seeing bad battery life, it's worth checking the Activity Monitor to make sure the dGPU is not in use.

Spotlight indexing, iCloud photo syncing, and other behind-the-scenes processes can also have an impact on battery life, especially when a machine is new.

According to The Loop, Apple has done extensive battery life testing on the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and continues to stand by its battery life estimates of up to 10 hours. It seems Apple believes reports of bad battery life are largely based on the faulty indicator, but there have been some real world tests that don't rely on the estimate and still show poor performance.

Apple says its new MacBook Pros can get up to 10 hours of battery life when browsing the web or when watching iTunes movies.

[thelem-again]

Anyone knows where I can get a USB C to USB 3.0 cable??

[2WNBoost]

How easily do AirPods fall out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

[Redman]

Guys,
I have a mid 2009 MBP... running Yosemite 10.10.5....I would like to upgrade to a newer OS so as to deal with the iphone 7 through ITunes....buuuut the AppStore is saying the OS is only compatible with 2010 and newer MBPs....

is there any thing I can do??

thx.

[Jade_Inc.]

Guys,
I have a mid 2009 MBP... running Yosemite 10.10.5....I would like to upgrade to a newer OS so as to deal with the iphone 7 through ITunes....buuuut the AppStore is saying the OS is only compatible with 2010 and newer MBPs....

is there any thing I can do??

thx.

Have a mbp 2013 for sale 5.5k :/

[ShIvAm]

Anybody got a used 60W MagSafe power adapter with "L" style connector for sale?

755-9804

[nick639v2]

Anybody got a used 60W MagSafe power adapter with "L" style connector for sale?

755-9804

That's for 2012 mbp?? If so what area u from? I have a working one from my old mbp

[ShIvAm]

Anybody got a used 60W MagSafe power adapter with "L" style connector for sale?

755-9804

That's for 2012 mbp?? If so what area u from? I have a working one from my old mbp

It looks like this... Im from the Piarco area. Supposed to be the same as below

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009)

[neexis]

So here's a new one... lately I've found that the trackpad on my mid 2014 MBP has been feeling strange and not able to click except for the lower right side. Googled the issue and apparently the batteries on some of these notebooks swell and affect the trackpad. Makes sense now since I've noticed that it didn't really sit on the rubber pads when it was on a table and slide around easily. I thought it was due to my table being warped, but theres a fair amount of bulge on the underside of this.

Also likely explains why the computer has run on the warm side in the past 18 months or so.

SD card slot died around 8 months, now this. Gotta love that premium Apple quality

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

So here's a new one... lately I've found that the trackpad on my mid 2014 MBP has been feeling strange and not able to click except for the lower right side. Googled the issue and apparently the batteries on some of these notebooks swell and affect the trackpad. Makes sense now since I've noticed that it didn't really sit on the rubber pads when it was on a table and slide around easily. I thought it was due to my table being warped, but theres a fair amount of bulge on the underside of this.

Also likely explains why the computer has run on the warm side in the past 18 months or so.

SD card slot died around 8 months, now this. Gotta love that premium Apple quality

Take it to F1 Connect or one of the approved Apple Repair centers and they should be able to sort it out for you.

[VexXx Dogg]

Bought my 13" 2014 MBPr with Yosemite and had no issues.
Upgraded to El Capitan and was plauged with random WIFI drops, none of the advertised fixes worked. Needed to turn off wifi and turn it back on to work, which was annoying AF

Upgraded to Sierra and it back to normal.

Go figure.

[2WNBoost]

http://www.consumerreports.org/apple/ap ... t-results/

Apple Releases Fix to MacBook Pros in Response to Consumer Reports' Battery Test Results

Apple says CR tests triggered a bug in Safari
By Consumer Reports
January 10, 2017

Apple has just issued a software fix through its Beta Software Program to address an issue that arose when the company's new MacBook Pro laptops were being tested in Consumer Reports' labs. Although those computers performed well in tests of display quality, performance, and other factors, we found the battery life to be so variable on the models tested that we could not recommend them to consumers. In our tests of three different MacBook Pro models, we saw battery life results as long as 19.5 hours and as short as 3.75 hours.

As a result, these laptops were the first MacBooks not to receive Recommended ratings from Consumer Reports, and the only ones in our ratings of 140 laptops to demonstrate this degree of inconsistency in battery life. We have now downloaded the software fix and are rerunning our battery tests with the fix in place on the same computers previously tested. If the battery life results are consistently high, the ratings score for MacBook Pros would rise, and those laptops will then receive Consumer Reports’ Recommended rating given their performance in all our other evaluations.

We communicated our original test results to Apple prior to publication on Dec. 22 and afterward sent multiple rounds of diagnostic data, at the company’s request, to help its engineers understand the battery issues we saw in our testing. After investigating the issue, Apple says that the variable battery performance we experienced is a result of a software bug in its Safari web browser that was triggered by our test conditions.

“We appreciate the opportunity to work with Consumer Reports over the holidays to understand their battery test results,” Apple said in a statement. “We learned that when testing battery life on Mac notebooks, Consumer Reports uses a hidden Safari setting for developing web sites which turns off the browser cache.... We have also fixed the bug uncovered in this test."

We turn off caching as part of Consumer Reports' standard laptop test protocol (more on that below). Caching is a feature used by many computers to store Web pages locally on a hard drive for faster retrieval by the browser.

Apple has posted its fix for the Safari bug on this website. The fix is available to anyone who signs up for Apple’s Beta Software program; it is then pushed to users through their computer’s Software Update function. Apple says the beta fix will be a part of a broader Software Update available to all MacBook Pro users in a few weeks, regardless of whether they sign up for the beta or not.

Separate from Consumer Reports’ test findings, many MacBook Pro owners have posted in user forums about episodes of remarkably short battery life, and both CR’s findings as well as these consumer posts have caused much discussion and debate in the tech press and on user forums. Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, tweeted on December 23rd that Apple had not seen the sort of wild swings in battery life in its own testing that CR has experienced in our labs, and he has responded to individual complaints. It’s unclear whether Apple’s bug fix for Safari will impact battery life issues for those individuals.

CR’s Laptop Testing
At Consumer Reports, we test every laptop from every manufacturer in a comparable way. Because people use laptops differently and because their usage can vary from day to day, our battery tests are not designed to be a direct simulation of a consumer’s experience. Rather, we look to control as many variables as possible, then perform a test that gives potential users a reasonable expectation of battery life when a computer’s processors, screen, memory, and antennas are under a light to moderate workload. This test has served as a good proxy for battery life on the hundreds of laptops in our ratings.

For our initial round of testing, we examined three MacBook Pros: a 13-inch model with Apple’s new Touch Bar, which sits above the keyboard; a 13-inch model without the Touch Bar; and a 15-inch model. (All 15-inch MacBook Pros come with the Touch Bar.) All three machines were bought at retail, just like all products rated by Consumer Reports. We do this to ensure that the models we test are identical to the ones a consumer would purchase.

Here’s how our battery test works: We download a series of 10 web pages repeatedly, starting with the battery fully charged, and ending when the laptop shuts down. The web pages are stored on a server in our lab and transmitted over a dedicated WiFi network. We conduct our battery tests using the browser that is native to the computer’s operating system—Safari, in the case of the MacBook Pro laptops.

Modern laptops have a variety of sophisticated battery management techniques and settings built into both their hardware and operating system software. These battery management techniques include dimming of the screen and eventually putting the computer to sleep when it is not in use. Computers also employ software strategies to speed up performance and reduce the workload of their processors and antennas, including storing web pages locally on the hard drive for quick retrieval—otherwise known as caching.

Many of these settings are set by default to extend battery life. That’s generally a good thing. But because these settings are so variable and situation-dependent, we turn several of them off during testing. For instance, we turn the screen auto-dimming features off on all laptops and set the displays to a constant level of brightness. (That’s 100 nits, for our fellow science geeks out there.) Otherwise, the screens would constantly adjust their brightness, resulting in an inconsistent strain on the battery, and would likely trigger different results in our testing every time.

We also turn off the local caching of web pages. In our tests, we want the computer to load each web page as if it were new content from the internet, rather than resurrecting the data from its local drive. This allows us to collect consistent results across the testing of many laptops, and it also puts batteries through a tougher workout.

According to Apple, this last part of our testing is what triggered a bug in the company’s Safari browser. Indeed, when we turned the caching function back on as part of the research we did after publishing our initial findings, the three MacBooks we’d originally tested had consistently high battery life results.

“This is not a setting used by customers and does not reflect real-world usage,” Apple said in its statement. “[Consumer Reports’] use of this developer setting also triggered an obscure and intermittent bug reloading icons which created inconsistent results in their lab. After we asked Consumer Reports to run the same test using normal user settings, they told us their MacBook Pro systems consistently delivered the expected battery life.... This is the best pro notebook we’ve ever made, we respect Consumer Reports and we’re glad they decided to revisit their findings on the MacBook Pro.”

Once our retesting of the MacBook Pro’s batteries is complete, we will report back with our update and findings.

[xtech]

My iPhone is 10 years old folks. My 2G which I brought brand new in 2007 still runs 100% perfect in 2017 an last days on a full charge off it's original battery.


http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/9/142115 ... n-pictures

[Redman]

So here's a new one... lately I've found that the trackpad on my mid 2014 MBP has been feeling strange and not able to click except for the lower right side. Googled the issue and apparently the batteries on some of these notebooks swell and affect the trackpad. Makes sense now since I've noticed that it didn't really sit on the rubber pads when it was on a table and slide around easily. I thought it was due to my table being warped, but theres a fair amount of bulge on the underside of this.

Also likely explains why the computer has run on the warm side in the past 18 months or so.

SD card slot died around 8 months, now this. Gotta love that premium Apple quality

LOL at the table

I ran with a spotty track pad for a while thinking it was due to the case being bent due to a few drops....turned out to be the swollen battery...Amazon sells the battery and the track pad-EASY to change both yourself...and while you in there you might want to switch the hard drive....less than an hr

That said my original track pad works perfectly after I removed the swollen battery..you would be surprised the pressure created by the battery swelling

[Jonathan_337]

Anyone jailbroken on 10.1.1?

[nick639v2]

Anyone jailbroken on 10.1.1?

No sir.

DO NOT jb on 10.1....that was strictly a Beta

10.2 Jb with stability and more reliable workings is out since last Tues. And was advised not to go do it on the i7 or i7+

[uncle sam]

people still jb...

[Jonathan_337]

Anyone jailbroken on 10.1.1?

No sir.

DO NOT jb on 10.1....that was strictly a Beta

10.2 Jb with stability and more reliable workings is out since last Tues. And was advised not to go do it on the i7 or i7+

Actually not too long ago used the beta. It's working really well. Feels fairly stable.

[Jonathan_337]

people still jb...

Yeah. Watusi, Phantom, Linktunes and savecloud make a jailbreak definitely worth it.

[PapaC]

Anybody ever had an issue with their iPhone just saying no service when the sim is inserted? Sim works on other phones, and the phone is unlocked. iPhone 6.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Anybody ever had an issue with their iPhone just saying no service when the sim is inserted? Sim works on other phones, and the phone is unlocked. iPhone 6.

Happened to me once when I swapped sim in another country and returned here. The carrier has to do a reset.

[Parvin]

Anybody ever had an issue with their iPhone just saying no service when the sim is inserted? Sim works on other phones, and the phone is unlocked. iPhone 6.

Started happening to me recently for no reason. Restarting the device didn't work either.

Had to end up replacing the sim to sort it out.

[PapaC]

Anybody ever had an issue with their iPhone just saying no service when the sim is inserted? Sim works on other phones, and the phone is unlocked. iPhone 6.

Started happening to me recently for no reason. Restarting the device didn't work either.

Had to end up replacing the sim to sort it out.

I tried that with no result. Have to get hold of a green sim to try and see if it works.

[PapaC]

Anybody ever had an issue with their iPhone just saying no service when the sim is inserted? Sim works on other phones, and the phone is unlocked. iPhone 6.

Happened to me once when I swapped sim in another country and returned here. The carrier has to do a reset.

A reset of my account?

[neexis]

LOL at the table

I ran with a spotty track pad for a while thinking it was due to the case being bent due to a few drops....turned out to be the swollen battery...Amazon sells the battery and the track pad-EASY to change both yourself...and while you in there you might want to switch the hard drive....less than an hr

That said my original track pad works perfectly after I removed the swollen battery..you would be surprised the pressure created by the battery swelling

Redman... that battery swap took close to 1.5 hours. The real battle was with the adhesive holding them in place. Despite leaving some solvent in there for some time, I still had to pry it out.
With the batteries replaced, I booted up but then the MagSafe wasn't charging. About 10 SMC resets and threatening to buy a Windows PC, the battery finally started charging.

Trackpad has returned to normal function, and the swelling on the underside subsided.

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Anybody ever had an issue with their iPhone just saying no service when the sim is inserted? Sim works on other phones, and the phone is unlocked. iPhone 6.

Happened to me once when I swapped sim in another country and returned here. The carrier has to do a reset.

A reset of my account?

I'm not sure what they did but I explained the issue to them and they did something on their end, asked me to restart the device and it worked again.

[S_2NR]

Anybody ever had an issue with their iPhone just saying no service when the sim is inserted? Sim works on other phones, and the phone is unlocked. iPhone 6.

Happened to me once when I swapped sim in another country and returned here. The carrier has to do a reset.

A reset of my account?

This works for me
Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings

[PapaC]

Initially when I tried to reset the network settings it wasn't going through.
Switched to a green sim and it reset and worked. Then switched back and was working again.

[src1983]

Hi guys,

Anywhere in Trinidad I can get an Apple Watch repaired?

I placed my watch to charge on the official Apple charger and when I picked it up the back sensor stuck to the charger

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Hi guys,

Anywhere in Trinidad I can get an Apple Watch repaired?

I placed my watch to charge on the official Apple charger and when I picked it up the back sensor stuck to the charger

Happened to my wife's 38mm stainless steel watch. We sent it back to Apple and they sent a new one as a replacement. Send it without the band.