Surface Pro 4 - Screen won't wake from sleep

Hello Josh,

I have successfully installed the Feb. 17 update, and that is actually what triggered the sleep issues for my Surface. I went through your steps and verified that the updates successfully took... is there some other solution, or will it be another five months before this gets patched again?

I have made sure my surface is updated and checked the update history and even followed all the advice on another thread (link below).

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/surfpro4-surfdrivers/surface-pro-4-screen-wont-wake-from-sleep/aed66dc7-289a-4300-a167-ab8394b7df06 

Having done all this, my surface still isn't waking from sleep every time, which means that I have to shut down the surface every time to prevent the battery from draining during the day. I don't know what else to do, and was wondering if anyone else out there is still experiencing this after the Feb 17 update?

My sp4 always wakes from sleep and 4‰ per hour is perfectly acceptable to me.  I don't understand why u would keep any laptop in sleep for such extended periods of of time when hibernate is available and has zero power consumption.  I have also yet to understand the burning need for connected standby on battery.  Please explain why this feature is so necessary?

Have you ever owned a tablet? It's so you can open it instantly an everything is up to date, it's synced in the background like a phone. This is not a laptop, it's a tablet! Hibernate isn't even enabled, you have to go specifically enable it like a power user. You do realize 4% per hour is unacceptable right?! Even with S3 sleep (the old sleep before Skylake) that's a lot, but with the new sleep mode it should be like a phone except without having to communicate with a cellular network in case of a call.

Ohh and THATS what we paid for also...not hibernate, and a sleep mode that works about as well as it did in the year 2000

Please, spare me your condescending attitude. I purchased the sp4 for it's portability, power and high res screen as the best in class laptop not as a giant 2lb marginally acceptable tablet.  It has not disappointed.  I can wait an extra 10 seconds for it to power on and connect.  If I want instant on I can use my tablet or my smartphone.  I am not going to let one not very significant problem spoil my otherwise excellent experience with the sp4.  Every device I have owned has had it's faults.  That was my point but apparently you needed it spelled out.  I'm not going to discuss this further.  If you want this to spoil your sp4 experience that's your problem and your life. 

This in no way excuses Microsoft from their commitments and responsibilities and fixing connected standby is one of them.  As for the the sp4 failing to wake from standby for some owners(not me), that is a serious problem which Microsoft needs to address without delay and I sympathize with all those who have this problem.

Until Microsoft fixes this problem your only logical recourse is to use hibernate instead of sleep.  Sometimes disabling fast startup helps alleviate the wake from sleep problem.  Interesting enough I don't have the wake from sleep issue but since sleep does consume more battery then it should I have my sp4 enter hibernate after 20 minutes of inactivity even if it is already in sleep.