Macbook pro retina wakes up from sleep on its own

[Ipadlover29]

My late 2013 15inch macbook pro retina with el capitan (10.11.1) seems to wake up from sleep on its own every few days. I have had this issue before even when I was running yosemite.

Ive tried the following:


Resetting SMC

Resetting NVRAM

disabled wake for wifi access

disabled power nap

disabled allow bluetooth devices to wake this computer

disabled all notifications from showing in the lock screen

File sharing is disabled


Any recommendations?


Thanks in advance,
AK

 

[Rodan52]

I guess you have already checked Log In Items to see if anything running in the background may be responsible, I was once caught out by Carbon Copy Cloner which had Wake for Backup set in it's preferences.

 

[Kissmyne]

Look in Console>Diagnostics and Usage Messages... if you know or can determine a time when this behavior occurs.. there will most likely be a log in Console about the event that led to waking...

 

[DeltaMac]

Every few days? Is that on the same day (maybe at the same time) each week?

 

[simon lefisch]

Are you using an external BT device? If so, go to BT options in Preferences and make sure "BT device can wake PC" is turned off.

 

[Ipadlover29]

Look in Console>Diagnostics and Usage Messages... if you know or can determine a time when this behavior occurs.. there will most likely be a log in Console about the event that led to waking...

I was finally able to catch it in the diagnostics and usage messages.

This is what it said:

2015-12-01 1:56:36.237 AM powerd[51]: com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.darkwake.capable

com.apple.message.hardware_support: smc_without_platform

com.apple.message.settings: none

SenderMachUUID: 27E902FC-A7A7-30EC-A8E8-1A6926D5ABDC

 

[DeltaMac]

I don't see anything there that indicates any reason why you might have a wakeup.
Your system.log would likely be a better place to look.

With that said, from your list, you COULD try disabling darkwake mode, which is related to, but different from powernap.
Some other info here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3716472?tstart=0