Surface Pro 4 - Screen won't wake from sleep

Anonymous
2015-10-27T05:32:42+00:00

I received my Surface Pro 4 today and it worked fine. I put it on "sleep" for awhile, came back and turned it on. Once again it worked fine. I made an error and instead of putting it on "sleep" I  hit the power button to turn it off when I finished. Now it won't come on at all. The screen stays dark. If I push the power button I can see lights under the keyboard keys, then if I hit the power switch again they go off. But nothing happens to the screen no matter what I do. Has anyone else suffered from this?

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Anonymous
2016-08-19T19:27:34+00:00

It works fine for me after the Anniversary Update to Windows 10 Pro (Version 1607). It no longer goes into a coma.

I just traveled all week. Put my Surface Pro 4 (SP4) to sleep 10 to 20 times each day, and currently my task manager shows the up time to be 7:21:35:21 - 7 days! It is actually working the way I expected it to when I bought it!

It was such a relief to not be scared to put it to sleep during meeting breaks to save battery when working with my Pen and OneNote. For the past 7 months I've had to have it on power when in meetings so that it wouldn't go into a coma. That was always so embarrassing.

You can update to the latest version of Windows 10 by opening Settings > Update & security > Windows Update, and selecting Check for updates.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-01-28T15:08:31+00:00

    I had the SP4 for about a month now. A few weeks ago I noticed that my SP4 wouldn't wake form sleep. It just didn't respond to me pressing the power button. Thankfully I noticed that the keyboard was lighting up, and then turned off after a few seconds. If I pressed the power button again, the keyboard would light up again, but the SP4 would still be unresponsive.

    The only way to bring the SP4 back on was to press and hold the power button for approximately 10+ seconds (i.e. a hard reset).

    I noticed that if I close the SP4 by pressing the power button first, and THEN closing the lid, I don't have any issues.

    Is there a solution for this?

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-28T13:47:32+00:00

    Wh00t! 10 out of 10 sleep/awake cycles closing cover then opening it and pressing key.  Slower but works

    Once when I opened before external display indicated was asleep my 2 external displays got swapped and device display was black.

    Now to see if it really sleeps and doesn't "cook in the bag"

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-28T13:23:23+00:00

    Just installed the firmware update.  Nothing mentioned in the update about fixing the sleep issue.  I never appreciated my iPad, how it always popped awake every time I opened the outer cover.  It used a magnet to sense that, and popped on every time.  Gotta give credit where credit is due.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-28T10:44:19+00:00

    My first reboot got stuck with keyboard backlight on and everything black :( Not a good start but willinn to try a few case closes to see if sleeps properly and then wakes up without issue

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