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
    2016-02-08T23:25:42+00:00

    And you expect me to do this every time it goes to sleep?!? This better get addressed soon or this thing is going back.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-08T19:34:27+00:00

    The sleep problem is definitely *not* just a closing keyboard issue. It has same issues when you hit power button (that's not just for me, many posters have the same issue regardless of 'how' it gets to sleep).

    I do also have the problem where it gets warm when it's supposedly sleeping. Unfortunately, I have not seen a solution for that one.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-08T19:29:22+00:00

    While sleep mode still has problems, is there a way to completely disable it? I can pretty much count on the machine being broken and crashing sooner or later after going to sleep. Last night I had it connected to the dock and only closed the keyboard so it can continue downloading stuff for a while. I've set it not to go to sleep when on battery, do nothing when closing the keyboard and hibernate after 30 minutes. Today when I resumed from hibernation, it crashed shortly afterwards, I checked the logs and discovered that it awoke from sleep at some point in between. For some reason it still sleeps even though it's supposed to be disabled.

    I have the MSFT recommended driver (whatever shows up with updates), and with an I5 256, have had no problems in several weeks with Sleep wake issues or fan issues.  What I'm noticing on this board is that folks having issues always mention closing the keyboard.  I never do that, so I can't comment on it.  But I'm wondering if that is the residual issue, putting it to sleep via closed keyboard.  

    My issue with sleep is that it gets warm DURING sleep.  So I now use hibernate for times greater than 2 hours.  I don't like it, as coming out of hibernate is not nearly as simple as coming out of sleep. My SP3 goes in and out of sleep with the power button like a charm.  My SP4 seems to do the same now, except then it gets hot.  I've not seen anyone comment on the getting hot issue during sleep.  

    Does anyone know a way to determine what is or was running during the time it got warm?

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-02-08T19:12:49+00:00

    While sleep mode still has problems, is there a way to completely disable it? I can pretty much count on the machine being broken and crashing sooner or later after going to sleep. Last night I had it connected to the dock and only closed the keyboard so it can continue downloading stuff for a while. I've set it not to go to sleep when on battery, do nothing when closing the keyboard and hibernate after 30 minutes. Today when I resumed from hibernation, it crashed shortly afterwards, I checked the logs and discovered that it awoke from sleep at some point in between. For some reason it still sleeps even though it's supposed to be disabled.

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