MacBook Pro Won't Wake from Sleep

[MacMedic]

careful sleep

Wow, this is a huge problem but I'm glad to see I've got company. What do you do that's "careful" that makes it ok? I seemed to have better luck if I put my MBP to sleep from the menu and then I can wake it without the blank screen. However if the MBP sleeps overnight I still have the same problem.

All other techniques suggested here have not helped. Mac better get busy with that fix.

By make it sleep carefully, I mean make sure that the mouse is turned off first, don't do anything that could interrupt the sleep or wake process (re-open or re-close the lid before it's finished it's process, move or unplug a mouse or other USB etc). That sort of thing. I find that using the menu or the power button then "S" seems to be pretty reliable too. Haven't noticed a problem of not waking if it's asleep overnight myself, though others may have. I just know that my windows laptops were never this picky about sleeping, they always seemed much more predictable - if you re-opened a lid before it was fully asleep, it would just wake back up and vise-versa. I really am thinking of going back to Tiger. The archiving is what's holding me back though.
Good luck.

 

[benlangdon]

well i did an erase and install
i tried a little to make it happen but it didn't happen
i am on spring break so my time right now is more towards opening beers then opening my laptop

 

[Andy789]

My screen works OK now

same here. especially when i just close the lid. but when i put it to sleep manually, no problem in waking it up.

hmmmm

I had the same problem with my MBP 2.2 Inrel Core 2 Duo, 2GB, 667MHz DDR2. I did all tricks I could read in various forums. The solution was to adjust the sleep settings in System Preferences/Energy/Sleep: I have now both the display and processor inactivity time set at same. No problems since. (The initial changes were done by myself, naturally.)

 

[benlangdon]

wow this sucks i erased and installed and just got it how i like it, and what do you know it hangs when i open it, took like 3 opens and closes with waiting for a while in between and pressing space bar a bunch

then the mouse got all shaky like i saw before and some people have gotten,

if it happens again and apple says its a software issue then to reinstall and just see and test everything on here in between to see what program is doing it im going to get fing pissed offffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

ok anyone here also have on there computer besides iLife and iWork
iStat menus
stuffit expander
epson printer / scan / fax
candybar
appdelete
x code

besides that nothing else, at all. askldfjsldkfj
i just got everything comfy and moved in, fing aaaaaaaaaa

 

[jdharper]

Mine seems to work after disabling lidwake with pmset

I've been having the same problem with my MBP sometimes waking with a blank screen. In my case I found that when this happened I could attach my external monitor which would be active. The only way I could get the MBP screen to come back was to turn on mirroring and then turn it off which would seem to reset things. This behavior only showed up a month or so ago...

The other problem I've had ever since I bought the machine a year ago was that when the lid was closed it would sometimes wake when I would pick it up to move it. My assumption from reading forums is that this is due to the lid sensor being too sensitive. Anyway reading around I found out about the pmset terminal command for setting power management settings. Specifically turning off the lidwake feature means that I have to press a key after opening the lid to return from sleep.

After disabling lidwake, I have never had the blank screen on wake (about a week now). My theory, at least with my MBP, is that when I press the button to open the lid, it bounces up and down and maybe that is causing the lid switch to get confused. Don't know, just a theory, but it seems to be working for me right now...

Here is a page I found useful on the pmset command:
http://rentzsch.com/bugs/curingMacbookPro17Insomnia

And here is detail on the pmset command:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pmset.1.html

 

[benlangdon]

I've been having the same problem with my MBP sometimes waking with a blank screen. In my case I found that when this happened I could attach my external monitor which would be active. The only way I could get the MBP screen to come back was to turn on mirroring and then turn it off which would seem to reset things. This behavior only showed up a month or so ago...

The other problem I've had ever since I bought the machine a year ago was that when the lid was closed it would sometimes wake when I would pick it up to move it. My assumption from reading forums is that this is due to the lid sensor being too sensitive. Anyway reading around I found out about the pmset terminal command for setting power management settings. Specifically turning off the lidwake feature means that I have to press a key after opening the lid to return from sleep.

After disabling lidwake, I have never had the blank screen on wake (about a week now). My theory, at least with my MBP, is that when I press the button to open the lid, it bounces up and down and maybe that is causing the lid switch to get confused. Don't know, just a theory, but it seems to be working for me right now...

Here is a page I found useful on the pmset command:
http://rentzsch.com/bugs/curingMacbookPro17Insomnia

And here is detail on the pmset command:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pmset.1.html

ya but my lid doesn't do that.
i have to move it at least an inch from closed position to even have anything happen

 

[fireloss]

wow this sucks i erased and installed and just got it how i like it, and what do you know it hangs when i open it, took like 3 opens and closes with waiting for a while in between and pressing space bar a bunch

then the mouse got all shaky like i saw before and some people have gotten,

if it happens again and apple says its a software issue then to reinstall and just see and test everything on here in between to see what program is doing it im going to get fing pissed offffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

ok anyone here also have on there computer besides iLife and iWork
iStat menus
stuffit expander
epson printer / scan / fax
candybar
appdelete
x code

besides that nothing else, at all. askldfjsldkfj
i just got everything comfy and moved in, fing aaaaaaaaaa

I have this problem too... Both the trackpad and the mouse get shaky.

 

[benlangdon]

I have this problem too... Both the trackpad and the mouse get shaky.

i am doing a big presentation tonight and if this thing goes out im going to get sooo pissed off.

i might ask for a refund





prob not, but at least they better fix it, or give me a BJ

edited for grammatical errors (prob still some left)

 

[forafireescape]

I took mine in today and they told me it was probably software related. when I mentioned that it seemed to be a common problem they said not to trust people on the MR forums and to use Apple-sponsored forums...

 

[benlangdon]

I took mine in today and they told me it was probably software related. when I mentioned that it seemed to be a common problem they said not to trust people on the MR forums and to use Apple-sponsored forums...

exactly what they told me.

but i have learned that when you say forums around them they go

so i said another one of my friends has this problem too and i use my real friends name just if i want to bring them in there
ya software related. pshhh, probably, theirs.


what did they tell you to do?
and what apps are you using

 

[mac-attack]

I am having same issues as above. Tried to remove Skype as that was a recent addition. Initially helped but then had same problem recur during USB connects or when internet activity had been ongoing prior to closing the lid...meaning I was up on WiFi. Have not found a reliable cure.

 

[MacMedic]

I've been having the same problem with my MBP sometimes waking with a blank screen. In my case I found that when this happened I could attach my external monitor which would be active. The only way I could get the MBP screen to come back was to turn on mirroring and then turn it off which would seem to reset things. This behavior only showed up a month or so ago...

The other problem I've had ever since I bought the machine a year ago was that when the lid was closed it would sometimes wake when I would pick it up to move it. My assumption from reading forums is that this is due to the lid sensor being too sensitive. Anyway reading around I found out about the pmset terminal command for setting power management settings. Specifically turning off the lidwake feature means that I have to press a key after opening the lid to return from sleep.

After disabling lidwake, I have never had the blank screen on wake (about a week now). My theory, at least with my MBP, is that when I press the button to open the lid, it bounces up and down and maybe that is causing the lid switch to get confused. Don't know, just a theory, but it seems to be working for me right now...

Here is a page I found useful on the pmset command:
http://rentzsch.com/bugs/curingMacbookPro17Insomnia

And here is detail on the pmset command:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pmset.1.html

Hey - You've hit the nail on the head as far as I can tell... it definitely seems to be some sort of 'screen confusion' by the MBP. Exactly what part of the MBP is still a mystery - is it the graphics drivers? OSX? Hardware? I have the same issue with the "bouncing lid" phenomenon. For some reason, when it doesn't wake up just right, it seems to decide to send the display information to a screen that isn't attached. I haven't tried hooking up an external screen yet - but I think that might be the next order of business. Keep plugging away I guess - and hopefully Apple will come up with a solution that works.

 

[benlangdon]

Hey - You've hit the nail on the head as far as I can tell... it definitely seems to be some sort of 'screen confusion' by the MBP. Exactly what part of the MBP is still a mystery - is it the graphics drivers? OSX? Hardware? I have the same issue with the "bouncing lid" phenomenon. For some reason, when it doesn't wake up just right, it seems to decide to send the display information to a screen that isn't attached. I haven't tried hooking up an external screen yet - but I think that might be the next order of business. Keep plugging away I guess - and hopefully Apple will come up with a solution that works.

ya give us all new MBP peryen or w/e its spelled

and the 2.6 ghz with the hi res display ( glossy ) for our troubles

 

[ericld]

Apple HAS to be aware of this

Have you ever seen the sheer volume of Macbook Pro's at the Apple campus. This issue is WIDESPREAD and if the ratio of employees are experiencing it is the same as the real world, which feels like about 40% or better, you know it's on their "hot list" of to-do's.

 

[benlangdon]

Have you ever seen the sheer volume of Macbook Pro's at the Apple campus. This issue is WIDESPREAD and if the ratio of employees are experiencing it is the same as the real world, which feels like about 40% or better, you know it's on their "hot list" of to-do's.

ya sure... they will fix this once they get 3d image rendering

 

[diehldun]

Happened THREE times within the last week. This is getting very annoying now...

 

[benlangdon]

you know what would be intense?

we get everyone who is having this problem get together and make a genius bar appointment and tell them to fix all our computers.

it would make it better if we all did an erase and install and the system was fresh and we got the problem

 

[hexonxonx]

I think it's been a week now since I have not had this problem happen. All I did to fix the problem was remove iStat Pro and then download the new version. Simple as that. I never turn off my MBP, only sleep and it always wakes up now.

 

[phuong]

ok people. i had this problem before and as you know it's annoying as hell. sometimes when i close my laptop and put it in my bag, it doesn't go to sleep at all. and of course when i arrive at work and open it for use, it sure is drained out.

so i did extensive research and found a very simple solution. it seems that the problem occurs when the lid is suddenly closed (like, too fast). so, everytime you close it, do it slowly and gently.

ever since i learnt that, i've never had this problem again. none.

 

[benlangdon]

ok people. i had this problem before and as you know it's annoying as hell. sometimes when i close my laptop and put it in my bag, it doesn't go to sleep at all. and of course when i arrive at work and open it for use, it sure is drained out.

so i did extensive research and found a very simple solution. it seems that the problem occurs when the lid is suddenly closed (like, too fast). so, everytime you close it, do it slowly and gently.

ever since i learnt that, i've never had this problem again. none.

really?
i treat my mbp like a kid.
its still a baby right now.
i treat it like a baby.

 

[forafireescape]

ok people. i had this problem before and as you know it's annoying as hell. sometimes when i close my laptop and put it in my bag, it doesn't go to sleep at all. and of course when i arrive at work and open it for use, it sure is drained out.

so i did extensive research and found a very simple solution. it seems that the problem occurs when the lid is suddenly closed (like, too fast). so, everytime you close it, do it slowly and gently.

ever since i learnt that, i've never had this problem again. none.

Interesting...I'll have to try that...even though I thought I treated it pretty gently.

 

[C-Otto]

RAM is the problem?

Hi there!

I have the strong feeling that the (amount of) memory might be the problem.
Please tell me if you see any similarities or differences in your setup.

1) Problem description
----------------------
Does not always wake up from sleep. In about 30% of all tries the screen goes on, but only shows black. The optical drive does not generate noise as it does before correct sleep resumes. The only help is resetting the computer by pressing the power button several seconds. The problem cannot be cured by removing iStat Pro, resetting battery components, switching sleep mode or doing other voodoo described in this thread. I see no relation in terms of "time spent in sleep mode", temperature, programs running, time of day, ...

2) Hardware
------------
Most recent Macbook (introduced a few weeks ago) with 45nm processor. This series is capable of using 4 GByte of memory (one can configure that much in the Apple store), whereas some older Macbooks only can use about 3,2 GByte when inserting 4 GByte.

3) Memory
---------
No problem (so far) with 2x 512 MByte I got from Apple.
No problem (so far) with 1x 2048 MByte (details below).
Problem as described above with 2x 2048 MByte (details below).
The 2048 MByte memory is Corsair Valueselect PC5300, CL5, "256 x 64". I count 8 chips on each side.

Please tell me what kind of memory modules you use. Perhaps the number of chips, doublesidedness or something alike causes the problem.

PS: Please excuse me to post here although I only have a Macbook. I guess the problem is caused by the same thing in both Macbook and Macbook Pro.

Thanks,
Carsten

 

[MacMedic]

problem centered on the lid?

Well - seems that on page 6 of this very long thread, the issue seems to be focused on the opening and closing of the lid. I've put this command through on terminal: sudo pmset lidwake 0 and so far it seems to be working fine. In fact, so far it has not hung up when waking yet. I've also updated iSat pro with the new version a couple days later, but I think the key was that lidwake command. It really isn't any hassle - still sleeps when closing the lid, just have to tap the space bar (or any key) after opening to wake it up.
I did this a few days ago, and so far so good.

 

[MacMedic]

don't think it's the memory...

Hi there!

I have the strong feeling that the (amount of) memory might be the problem.
Please tell me if you see any similarities or differences in your setup.

1) Problem description
----------------------
Does not always wake up from sleep. In about 30% of all tries the screen goes on, but only shows black. The optical drive does not generate noise as it does before correct sleep resumes. The only help is resetting the computer by pressing the power button several seconds. The problem cannot be cured by removing iStat Pro, resetting battery components, switching sleep mode or doing other voodoo described in this thread. I see no relation in terms of "time spent in sleep mode", temperature, programs running, time of day, ...

2) Hardware
------------
Most recent Macbook (introduced a few weeks ago) with 45nm processor. This series is capable of using 4 GByte of memory (one can configure that much in the Apple store), whereas some older Macbooks only can use about 3,2 GByte when inserting 4 GByte.

3) Memory
---------
No problem (so far) with 2x 512 MByte I got from Apple.
No problem (so far) with 1x 2048 MByte (details below).
Problem as described above with 2x 2048 MByte (details below).
The 2048 MByte memory is Corsair Valueselect PC5300, CL5, "256 x 64". I count 8 chips on each side.

Please tell me what kind of memory modules you use. Perhaps the number of chips, doublesidedness or something alike causes the problem.

PS: Please excuse me to post here although I only have a Macbook. I guess the problem is caused by the same thing in both Macbook and Macbook Pro.

Thanks,
Carsten

According to your personal experience, it may have something to do with the amount of memory - but so far most people are having the problem with stock macbook pros with 2GB. The fact that you have a macbook might be a factor, I have no idea. As I just posted - it seems to have more to do with the lid.

 

[ncavs10]

my friend, mr. feeny had the same issue with his macbook pro and he called apple. apparently it is a recognized issue and they are working on it in their next software update.

he also noticed that istat pro made it worse, so by removing it, it helped a little bit.