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Potential wake from sleep issue with new 15" PowerBook
Authored by: richard_k_smith on Oct 02, '03 12:09:58PM

I have the new 15" powerbook and can confirm that it has waking "issues," including:

- not waking at all, and not because is running in the bag or something. just black screen, no response

- waking with a "flutter" -- screen pops up, then goes black, then comes back, then goes blue, then comes back... finally settles down to be always on

The latter is merely an annoyance, and I presume it will be fixed in an upcoming patch/update. The second is really more serious, except that I have found it isn't REALLY dead... here's what I have done:

1) close the lid, wait a bit, open it up again -- awake!

2) close the lid, wait a bit, open it up again, still dead but press the power button briefly and it says "do you really want to shut down your computer?" Cancel that, and proceed.

3) close the lid, wait a bit, open it up and press cmd-alt-esc (as if you are going to kill a running program). It wakes up, you cancel that, and carry on.

4) close the lid, wait a bit, open and press cmd-alt-esc and even though you can't see anything, press enter (i.e., kill whatever has lodged), and you're back in business. Close the kill dialog box (it has killed one of your programs), and carry on.

Worse case scenario is that you have to press and hold the power button, and restart.

One of the wonderful things about OS X and my iBook - the machine I learned to use OSX on - was the "instant on" aspect of the sleep function. Not flickering, no pauses, no failures. I wouldn't go back to the iBook at this point, but I do miss the reliability of the iBook.



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re: Potential wake from sleep issue with new 15" PowerBook
Authored by: huzzam on Oct 02, '03 04:25:23PM

My ibook 500 occasionally has the "flutter" you mentioned. It seems to happen generally if i've plugged or unplugged a peripheral while it was asleep. For example, if i have my audio-out cord plugged in, to listen to the computer through the stereo, then i put it to sleep, and THEN unplug the audio cord. When i wake it back up, it will "flutter." Is that perhaps the problem for you as well?

peter



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re: Potential wake from sleep issue with new 15" PowerBook
Authored by: mumblingmynah on May 25, '05 05:50:47PM

I have had these exact same issues with waking my powerbook. I've also recently realized that it has been refusing to go to sleep--both when closing the lid or by selecting Sleep from the apple menu. Just now I discovered the only way to make it sleep is by unplugging it from the power and then closing the lid. Unplugging and manually selecting sleep will not work. What kind of weirdness is this?



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