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What on earth has happened to "sleep" function on 10.9.2?!

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rafithegreat

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Jul 27, 2013
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So, ever since I've upgraded to the newest version on Mavericks, I'm having an enormous paining the arse with my attempts at getting my MBA 2013 13'' 256 8 to go to sleep..!

It started with the hot corner that made the display turn off, not triggering the sleep functions, which I thought "well, OK, maybe they meant to have it so I can listen to music with the display off".
Since then, I've been "degraded" to having to press the power button for a couple seconds, then select the "sleep" option (closing the lid itself also did not put it to sleep).

This morning, after having pressed the "sleep" option in the popup box, I wake up to a 0% battery.. Wonderful.

Can anyone explain what's going on? I saw some thread in the Apple communities mentioning sleeping issues, but not quite since 10.9.2. Moreover, I have changed none of the settings I had on 10.9.1 (meaning, power-nap is only enabled on charge, hard disks are put to sleep when possible etc).


So - any thoughts?

Thanks!
 
rafithegreat said:
So, ever since I've upgraded to the newest version on Mavericks, I'm having an enormous paining the arse with my attempts at getting my MBA 2013 13'' 256 8 to go to sleep..!

It started with the hot corner that made the display turn off, not triggering the sleep functions, which I thought "well, OK, maybe they meant to have it so I can listen to music with the display off".
Since then, I've been "degraded" to having to press the power button for a couple seconds, then select the "sleep" option (closing the lid itself also did not put it to sleep).

This morning, after having pressed the "sleep" option in the popup box, I wake up to a 0% battery.. Wonderful.

Can anyone explain what's going on? I saw some thread in the Apple communities mentioning sleeping issues, but not quite since 10.9.2. Moreover, I have changed none of the settings I had on 10.9.1 (meaning, power-nap is only enabled on charge, hard disks are put to sleep when possible etc).


So - any thoughts?

Thanks!
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Closing the lid should put the machine to sleep. Holding the power button down for a few seconds will bring up the menu and choose sleep.
 
rafithegreat said:
Since then, I've been "degraded" to having to press the power button for a couple seconds, then select the "sleep" option (closing the lid itself also did not put it to sleep)
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Since 10.9.2 tapping the sleep button does nothing, holding the sleep button triggers sleep, and holding it even longer brings up the menu.
If you keep getting the menu then you're holding it too long.
You just need to practice your timing.
 
So simply using the hot corner to switch off the display won't trigger the sleep mode any longer? That's a bit of a shame.. =\

Oh well, thanks for the heads up! :)
 
The sleep button now takes 2-4 presses before my 2012 27" iMac goes to sleep. Sleep is easily activated by the menu commands, though. It's slightly annoying.
 
OK, so 1 week later, and still absolutely rubbish.
Can't make my Mac go to sleep - there is no way of getting it to work. I've used the power button, selected the sleep option, yet the battery drain is horrible - I leave the Mac at over 90% before I go to bed, and in the morning it's at 10%, or even plain dead.

What the hell is wrong with Mavericks 10.9.2? Why have they made it impossible to sleep the machine? I've tried resetting the SMC, tried changing all possible energy saver options, all sorts of command line prompts - still, nothing new.

Is there any other option apart from literally shutting down the machine every time I'm done using the machine?
 
Because closing the lid also does not make it go to sleep?
I did in fact try that one more time last night and woke up to a dead laptop.. bliss. really getting on my nerves now as i don't really want to shut down the mac whenever i'm not using it - real pain in the arse.
 
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