MBA Standby functionality

[MXSkier62]

So I'm planning on purchasing an 11.6 MBA in the next week or so, and have 1 question about battery management. I know that it has a "5 hour" battery life, and a "30 day" standby mode. And that sleep is different. How does this work?

If I close the lid, do I put it into standby mode instantly? Is that a setting I can choose? And waking from standby, is that still "instant" awake?

Is sleep for only when the lid is open?

And if I were able to set it so that whenever I close the lid, even for 3 minutes, it goes to standby, would the battery life increase such that I could probably make it through the day with it, using it for maybe 4 hours, and having it be in standby mode for the rest of the day?

Thanks!

 

[Hellhammer]

IIRC MBAs enter standby mode after one hour of sleeping. I don't think you can change that setting. It's not that instant awake but we are still talking about few seconds.

 

[ml11]

IIRC MBAs enter standby mode after one hour of sleeping. I don't think you can change that setting. It's not that instant awake but we are still talking about few seconds.

Hello are you sure! with mine isn't working like that. Ive been to the genius bar at a apple store, they didn't really know anything?!

So I did some recherché, you can change settings in terminal with pmset!

can you look up how yours is ajustet with "pmset -g custom"
Thats mine I'm specialy intrestet in Battery Settings!!
Battery Power:
lidwake 1
panicrestart 15
standbydelay 30
standby 0
ttyskeepawake 1
hibernatemode 25
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
displaysleep 5
sleep 5
acwake 0
halfdim 1
lessbright 1
disksleep 5
AC Power:
lidwake 1
panicrestart 15
standbydelay 4200
standby 2
ttyskeepawake 1
hibernatemode 25
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
womp 1
displaysleep 15
networkoversleep 0
sleep 0
acwake 0
halfdim 1
disksleep 10

Please help!!

 

[Hellhammer]

My stats


Battery Power:
standby 0
standbydelay 0
halfdim 1
lidwake 1
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
disksleep 5
sleep 5
hibernatemode 3
displaysleep 5
ttyskeepawake 1
acwake 0
lessbright 1
AC Power:
standby 0
halfdim 1
standbydelay 0
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
lidwake 1
disksleep 10
sleep 10
hibernatemode 3
displaysleep 5
ttyskeepawake 1
acwake 0
womp 1

 

[ml11]

Hey Hallhammer,
do you have a MBA 2011? It look strange that yours is in a different order to mine. And yours is proper working going to sleep and after 60-70 min to hibernation mode? Your standby looks like being off set?!
Thanks for your reply anyway

 

[Hellhammer]

Hey Hallhammer,
do you have a MBA 2011? It look strange that yours is in a different order to mine. And yours is proper working going to sleep and after 60-70 min to hibernation mode? Your standby looks like being off set?!
Thanks for your reply anyway

I have 2010 MBA running Snow Leopard. I think it enters hibernation when it should as sometimes waking it up takes a little longer.

 

[ml11]

I have 2010 MBA running Snow Leopard. I think it enters hibernation when it should as sometimes waking it up takes a little longer.

after hibernate it shows a grey screen with white (dont know how it calls in english) Loding stripes!