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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-06-01T12:30:06+00:00

    Great find.  I am glad someone somewhere else is reporting on the issue.  If MS would simply acknowledge the issue and take responsibility things would be different.  Since the 5/24 update I haven't had a single wake from sleep issue and I have lot 1548 (from the box) and model 1724.  Since December I've likened my SP4 to a car that would only start sometimes and while now it is starting all of the time I still have a great deal of mistrust.  However, I'm keeping my bus pass handy.  What I have noticed on occasion since 5/24, is that frequently I open the typecover , I click the power button and the keyboard lights up but the screen stays black.  However, when I then click the power button again, the screen comes on.  I could live with that but the anxiety I feel when I don't see the screen come on with the keyboard is not pleasant.  I keep expecting the SP4 to revert to the pre-5/24 behavior and fully believe now it is a matter of time.  I'll be the first to post when it does happen.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-06-01T11:05:03+00:00

    I'm still getting the hot bag. Can't afford more down time after 2 replacements already. Very disapointed. To think I went for SP4 rather than book as expected 4th Gen to be Sorted!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-06-01T09:39:14+00:00

    I did this procedure a couple of days ago. For some reason the Surface just wouldn't do anything other than view the word "Surface" on the screen. It took about 20 minutes of retrying until it did shut down and restarted. 

    Since I purchased the Surface last November I have had the screen lock 4 times and this one was the worst.

    Every time I check for updates and it says my Surface was up to date...

    The next time I will get out my camera and take a picture of the condition.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-06-01T09:07:17+00:00

    Well, after several days of trying the 5/24 updates, I can add a bit to my last (very early) report.  General opinion is unchanged - it's better, but not yet really fixed.  Long sleeps and docking operations are roughly at Russian Roullette odds (with only one chamber loaded this time, as opposed to one empty, as before...)  As we all know, you can't play that game for long before you lose big.

    In addition to the one "Hot Bag" incident, I've had two failures to wake, both of which were after docking the SP4 in the SP3 dock while it was asleep.  Failure mode for these is typical - black screen, machine "running" but completely unresponsive - Key cover lights up when plugged in, but nothing will provoke it to show anything on the screen, so you still have to force a poweroff/reboot cycle.

    Battery life is still quite disappointing, and this may be the big reason to pursue a hardware swap, since this seems to be much better on the newer SP4s.  (And maybe that would avoid the Hot Bag failure to sleep problem, as well...)

    In general, I've been putting it to sleep with the power button, or occasionally, the Start Menu.  I'm wondering if putting it to sleep with the power button and then snapping on the Type Cover to throw it in my bag is waking it up - it then somehow fails to recognize that the Type Cover is closed and it's supposed to be asleep... 

    In any case, the system should be robust to all different kinds of reasonably anticipated operator actions, rather than requiring specific coddling to avoid a (literal, possibly) meltdown.

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