Ran battery down today and it shutdown rather than hibernating

[steffi]

Why would the i7 choose to shutdown rather than hibernate or sleep?

Smart sleep was set to 5% and it should have hibernated since the battery charge fell below 5%

What causes the machine to choose to shutdown instead of hibernate or sleep?

pmset -g
Active Profiles:
Battery Power -1
AC Power -1*
Currently in use:
womp 1
halfdim 1
sms 1
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
gpuswitch 2
disksleep 10
sleep 180
hibernatemode 0
ttyskeepawake 1
displaysleep 30
acwake 0
lidwake 1

 

[NicktheNorse]

I've also noticed this on my 15" i5. Not changed any of the power settings or anything like that.

 

[steffi]

why don't you open a terminal window and post your pmset settings

pmset -g

I had sleep mode so I guess with a flat battery I can expect it to shutdown.

Anyway, now i'm running version 2.6 of smartsleep and I've set it to hibernate only
because I'm using an SSD.

-rw------T 1 wheel 8589934592 Jun 4 13:13 sleepimage

I've also noticed this on my 15" i5. Not changed any of the power settings or anything like that.

 

[Ronnoco]

My i5 did the same...shut down instead of sleep. I had read that unlike the earlier models that keep a small amount of battery charge in "reserve" to keep things in memory (which allows it to sleep), the newer models actually write the data to the HD and then completely shut down. When you begin to charge the battery again, the data is accessed from the HD and the computer is back where it was before it shut down...does this make sense?