System Firmware Update - 12/10/13 fails to install

Anonymous
2013-12-10T19:14:53+00:00

Got the updates on todays patch Tuesday, but the firmware update failed to load.  Rechecking for an update does not give the opportunity to try and reinstall.

Anyone else having this problem?  I do notice that my telemetry driver is now loaded. so not sure what is going on here.

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Anonymous
2013-12-19T06:53:02+00:00

Josh,

We are working through the holidays to deliver a fix for the small number of customers that have experience decreased battery life and booting/sleeping problems as a result of the December update.  We took the update down to prevent additional customers from ending up in this state. All hardware failures, none of which are known to be caused by the December update, are being handled promptly through our warranty exchange policy.

The UEFI firmware that we released in the December update prevents some devices from entering sleep mode (and other low power states) properly during periods of inactivity. In order to release an updated version of the UEFI firmware we need to test the new version with the other drivers in the set to make sure we are not releasing yet another unknown state to customer machines. We certainly feel your pain and assure you that we are doing everything possible to make this right, as quickly as we can.

Thank you,

Tim

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Anonymous
2014-02-15T00:49:31+00:00

Greetings all,

We understand that the February Firmware Update has fixed the Battery gauge issue and the Firmware showing as failed. However we can see that there are some customers who are still experiencing issues with their Surface Pro 2 going into Sleep mode and Hibernate.

So we can better track those particular issues, we have decided to close this thread off. We encourage you to create a thread related to your Surface Pro 2 not going to sleep or not going into Hibernate. Please give as much detail as possible to your scenario.

We understand that the February Firmware update did not resolve the issue with waking from Sleep or Hibernate, as it was not intended to fix that particular issue. We are continuing to work to deliver a high quality solution. More updates will become available as this effort progresses.

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Anonymous
2014-02-13T22:35:08+00:00

The February update has resolved all issues for me.  The firmware installed with no issues.  Prior to this, I had all sorts of problems with the December firmware.  Sleep and hibernate issues were rampant.  The January update helped a bit, but the battery meter was always getting off calibration. 

With the February update, all issues have been resolved and my Surface 2 128gb is working as it was prior to the December updates.  Very solid and all is back to normal.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-05T14:24:41+00:00

    Have you tried avoiding sleep - explicitly shutting down instead of using sleep and not depending on the power button or placement of the type cover to turn it off?  This seems like it has stopped any problems for me.  It is a bother, but only a small bother, particularly since it is temporary.

    If this is all it takes to avoid problems it is remarkable that Microsoft hasn't issued instructions to do this.

    Hi Mickey,

    Yes, I've followed the advice in this thread and switched to hibernate, avoiding sleep entirely. This has temporarily solved the issues, I'm sure shutdown would also achieve the same result.

    I was just wondering if others were experiencing the same issues with ACPI within the System process using CPU following a sleep cycle and the Type Cover having power fluctuations..

    I wonder how much "wear and tear" your SSD is enduring with repeated hibernations?  Every time you hibernate, you're writing 4 or 8GB of data to your SSD.  That's a lot more writes than normal.  There are a couple "rules of thumb" with SSD's -- one is to turn off disk defrag (as it causes extensive unneeded writes to the SSD) and the other to turn off hibernation (for the same reason).  Both can lessen the lifetime of your SSD.

    Given the speed of SSD, I wonder if it's any faster start from hibernation or to just boot up normally?

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-01-05T14:12:58+00:00

    Have you tried avoiding sleep - explicitly shutting down instead of using sleep and not depending on the power button or placement of the type cover to turn it off?  This seems like it has stopped any problems for me.  It is a bother, but only a small bother, particularly since it is temporary.

    If this is all it takes to avoid problems it is remarkable that Microsoft hasn't issued instructions to do this.

    Hi Mickey,

    Yes, I've followed the advice in this thread and switched to hibernate, avoiding sleep entirely. This has temporarily solved the issues, I'm sure shutdown would also achieve the same result.

    I was just wondering if others were experiencing the same issues with ACPI within the System process using CPU following a sleep cycle and the Type Cover having power fluctuations..

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