rMBP slow response upon wake up

[ryane67]

So when I let my new retina MacBook Pro sleep for awhile, say 2 hours or more, it is doing this strange thing when it wakes up.

I'll open the lid, the machine wakes up nearly immediately, but I have no mouse cursor, and I cannot type in the window for my password to unlock the machine.

I typically have to wait ~15 seconds then the password box becomes highlighted and I can start typing.

Any ideas? Or maybe anywhere I can start troubleshooting this? It's my first mac so Im not too savvy on knowing how to fix this sort of thing.

 

[SchuettS]

So when I let my new retina MacBook Pro sleep for awhile, say 2 hours or more, it is doing this strange thing when it wakes up.

I'll open the lid, the machine wakes up nearly immediately, but I have no mouse cursor, and I cannot type in the window for my password to unlock the machine.

I typically have to wait ~15 seconds then the password box becomes highlighted and I can start typing.

Any ideas? Or maybe anywhere I can start troubleshooting this? It's my first mac so Im not too savvy on knowing how to fix this sort of thing.

My Air started doing this with Mountain Lion. I do not think this is a retina specific problem. I think its spread across the board.

 

[gentlefury]

Mine seems to crash everytime it wakes up after my morning commute. I don't know why.

 

[ryane67]

I thought it might be the password or even my mounted samba volume but removing both of those then letting it sleep overnight had no effect. I just opened it up and had to wait quite a bit before I had a moving cursor

rMBP 2.3/16/256
on osx 10.8
smc 2.3f32

 

[NutsNGum]

So when I let my new retina MacBook Pro sleep for awhile, say 2 hours or more, it is doing this strange thing when it wakes up.

I'll open the lid, the machine wakes up nearly immediately, but I have no mouse cursor, and I cannot type in the window for my password to unlock the machine.

I typically have to wait ~15 seconds then the password box becomes highlighted and I can start typing.

Any ideas? Or maybe anywhere I can start troubleshooting this? It's my first mac so Im not too savvy on knowing how to fix this sort of thing.

This happened on the 2011 Airs also, don't know whether it's something that just needs a software fix as it doesn't seem to do it in Mountain Lion now with the same machines.

That said, it could be that the machine is looking for the boot disk.

If you haven't already, go into System Preferences > Startup Disk > then click on your OSX Disk

See if that changes anything.

 

[joec1101]

I had this problem on both my MBA and my rMBP.

My solution is to stop it from going into full hibernation mode.

Try this and see if it works for you:


Paste this in a Terminal window:

To change mode:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

To check mode:

pmset -g | grep hibernatemode


You can always change it back to whatever hibernate mode it was before if it doesn't work for you.

 

[Kuray]

MacBook Air models from Late 2010 and newer and MacBook Pros with Retina display (MBPRs) are designed to go into standby mode after an hour of sleep. In standby mode, your battery should last about 30 days. For more information read this: About standby mode
Source: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/9875442/

If it gets in standby mode instead of sleep mode it should take more time, which looks normal when you think they are different mode and standby mode can last about 30 days

 

[retinarob]

Same thing happens for me. I just figured it was cleaning up after the party it had while I was away.

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

I had this problem on both my MBA and my rMBP.

My solution is to stop it from going into full hibernation mode.

Try this and see if it works for you:


Paste this in a Terminal window:

To change mode:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

To check mode:

pmset -g | grep hibernatemode


You can always change it back to whatever hibernate mode it was before if it doesn't work for you.

Per one of the prior posts, doing this may severely reduce your MBP's standby time. Get ready for all of the "My MacBook Pro standby battery life sucks" from the people who use the above command line to disable a feature that Apple put into the system for a reason.

 

[Andru1313]

I have the same issue. I get my log on screen and it takes over about 20 seconds before I can do anything. I haven't been able to figure out a way around it.

 

[TLewis]

Per one of the prior posts, doing this may severely reduce your MBP's standby time. Get ready for all of the "My MacBook Pro standby battery life sucks" from the people who use the above command line to disable a feature that Apple put into the system for a reason.

True. People just don't understand that you can get either long standby ("up to 30 days"), or quick resume, but not both.

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My Air started doing this with Mountain Lion. I do not think this is a retina specific problem. I think its spread across the board.

It's a standby feature that affects all Macbooks that come standard with SSDs.

Edit: for the lazy people out there: Kuray answered this. Read his post.

 

[ryane67]

MacBook Air models from Late 2010 and newer and MacBook Pros with Retina display (MBPRs) are designed to go into standby mode after an hour of sleep. In standby mode, your battery should last about 30 days. For more information read this: About standby mode
Source: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/9875442/

If it gets in standby mode instead of sleep mode it should take more time, which looks normal when you think they are different mode and standby mode can last about 30 days

Thank you this makes perfect sense.

 

[joec1101]

Per one of the prior posts, doing this may severely reduce your MBP's standby time. Get ready for all of the "My MacBook Pro standby battery life sucks" from the people who use the above command line to disable a feature that Apple put into the system for a reason.

Yes, while it is a "feature" designed to prolong battery life, it can be adjusted to suit one's own needs. For *me* it works great in hibernate mode 0 because I like a quick wake-up and mine gets charged daily. If you're someone who wants to charge the battery only on occasion and you rely on the prolonged battery life, this isn't for you.

 

[choffy]

I'm having a similar problem but I'm not sure if putting my rMBP into 'hibernate 0' will solve it:

Occasinally after sleeping for a few hours, when I open my laptop and the screen turns on and the keyboard lights up, but the screen stays black for ~5 seconds. Then the screen will turn blue (like it does when you change resolutions on the rMBP or plug in an HDMI cord), and then it will prompt me for my password.

It's not a huge thing but it's kind of annoying. I wouldn't mind running the 'hibernate 0' prompt in Terminal if it fixes it, but I'm not sure if it will. Anyone know if it's waking up from hibernation, or what exactly?

 

[Enmanuel]

I'm having a similar problem but I'm not sure if putting my rMBP into 'hibernate 0' will solve it:

Occasinally after sleeping for a few hours, when I open my laptop and the screen turns on and the keyboard lights up, but the screen stays black for ~5 seconds. Then the screen will turn blue (like it does when you change resolutions on the rMBP or plug in an HDMI cord), and then it will prompt me for my password.

It's not a huge thing but it's kind of annoying. I wouldn't mind running the 'hibernate 0' prompt in Terminal if it fixes it, but I'm not sure if it will. Anyone know if it's waking up from hibernation, or what exactly?

I have the same issue, thats what I was hoping to find an answer to. did you run the hibernate 0 command?

 

[Engali]

I'm having a similar problem but I'm not sure if putting my rMBP into 'hibernate 0' will solve it:

Occasinally after sleeping for a few hours, when I open my laptop and the screen turns on and the keyboard lights up, but the screen stays black for ~5 seconds. Then the screen will turn blue (like it does when you change resolutions on the rMBP or plug in an HDMI cord), and then it will prompt me for my password.

It's not a huge thing but it's kind of annoying. I wouldn't mind running the 'hibernate 0' prompt in Terminal if it fixes it, but I'm not sure if it will. Anyone know if it's waking up from hibernation, or what exactly?

Resetting SMC on my rMBP fixed this issue. It started after I got the most recent ML update. Look up "resetting SMC"

 

[Enmanuel]

I've reset the SMC, lets see is that takes care of it.

 

[freediverx]

Brand new rMBP here. The odd thing is that if I manually put it to sleep from the Apple menu, it can wake from sleep in just two seconds.

However, if it goes to sleep on its own after 10 minutes of inactivity, it takes several seconds longer before the password prompt appears and is responsive.