Macbook Air gets hot after waking up

[Surely]

Yes, make a habit of first waking your Air and then plugging it in. Yeah it's not ideal but works... I haven't really had this problem for months, the most annoying thing was reminding my wife to do the same.

But what if it's plugged in when it's asleep? You want me to unplug it, wake it, and then plug it in again?

This is not a reasonable or acceptable solution.

 

[halledise]

reset the SMC

http://goo.gl/EKE5

 

[warfed]

But what if it's plugged in when it's asleep? You want me to unplug it, wake it, and then plug it in again?

This is not a reasonable or acceptable solution.

If it's pluggin in while it's asleep this bug shouldn't exist. At least not in the form that has been reported by other users. Are you sue you don't have a rogue process running? In your screen shot window server is using 11% of you CPU, what is your computer doing?

Try resetting your SMC as suggested above.

 

[MJedi]

I posted this same issue a while back, and the workaround posted here is the only way to prevent this from happening. Otherwise, you have to reboot. Has anyone tried the "latest" firmware available? It was EFI Firmware Update 2.4, released in February 23, 2012. Does that resolve this issue?

I suggest submitting this issue to Apple through here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookair.html

 

[MJedi]

The new firmware did NOT fix this issue. So frustrating.

 

[Surely]

reset the SMC

http://goo.gl/EKE5

This did not fix the problem. I have an appointment at the Apple Store tomorrow.

*awesome*

 

[MJedi]

This did not fix the problem. I have an appointment at the Apple Store tomorrow.

*awesome*

Let us know how this goes, and what was their solution.

 

[Surely]

Let us know how this goes, and what was their solution.

I took it in yesterday and explained the issue. They wanted me to leave it overnight for testing, but it wasn't convenient for me.

While I was there, I suggested that I try to get the issue to happen so I could show them, but of course, it wouldn't happen. I was there surfing and doing some light work for around 45 minutes before I decided to give up. I did show them the screenshot of my Activity Monitor that I posted in this thread on April 4th.

The strange thing is that it hasn't happened since my last post in this thread on April 9th. So maybe, somehow, the problem has corrected itself. *fingers crossed*

I suppose it's possible that resetting the SMC corrected the problem, but it occurred a few times even after I did that.

I'm confused, but if it doesn't happen again, I'm happy.

 

[Surely]

So....it happened again.

And a new problem started happening: when I put my MBA to sleep (by closing the lid or by clicking "sleep" in the menu), the fans would continue to run. I know that I mentioned something similar in a post above, but this was different. The fans would run at a low speed (probably around 2000 rpm) while the MBA was asleep. Also, it would stay warm in the area near the magsafe port whether it was being used or if it was asleep. If I unplugged the magsafe, the fans would stop and the machine would cool down eventually. As soon as I plugged it back in, the fans would start up again.

I took it to the Genius Bar again, and this time I left it overnight for testing. The testing didn't find anything, and after a chat with the guy, he came to the conclusion that perhaps the OS was corrupt, so he suggested that I reinstall Lion. Shrug. Okay.

I backed everything up (with CCC to one drive and with TM to another), and then booted in Lion Recovery mode. I selected "Reinstall Mac OS X", and went through that. I expected my machine to have a completely fresh OS, but when it restarted after it was finished, all of my data was still there. I guess I was supposed to erase the MBA's SSD first?

Anyway, I did that all 2 days ago. All of my problems seemed to have cleared up. No heat or fan issues since. Yay?*



*I'm still trying to determine if the fix will be permanent

 

[v0vets]

I've got the same problem. SMC reset didn't help. Now trying to use sleep only mode as suggested here earlier. Will write about the results.

 

[bp1000]

Just to note i still get this issue and haven't found a fix for it apart from the work around posted which is if the MBA was sleeping without the charger connected, dont plug in the charger until you mba is awake.

 

[Surely]

Just to note i still get this issue and haven't found a fix for it apart from the work around posted which is if the MBA was sleeping without the charger connected, dont plug in the charger until you mba is awake.

Have you tried reinstalling the OS, like I did in post #34 ?