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
    2016-02-18T18:52:11+00:00

    Thank you Dave for your helpful information. I have recognition on also.

    I think part of the problem is ... I sometimes do not know whether my Surface is hibernating or not. This means I do not know what to do when I want to wake it. I think it is a bit annoying having to figure out what state it in. Perhaps I will just press the power button anyway.

    Sometimes the red light comes on (not being in hibernation) but nothing happens. Hopefully this will gradually go (somehow) because I do not know what this means.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-18T18:40:35+00:00

    I decided to turn off the Surface Pro 4 overnight so it would have a clean start this morning, so I can then test again the wake problems today and beyond.

    For some reason Bluetooth had turned itself off and OneDrive had been lost so it asked me to reconnect it. Cannot be sure whether these were related to the updates, but have not had them before.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-18T14:28:47+00:00

    Hi!

    It was solved, but came back after the newest windows update. the Surface Driver pack did not help this time.

    so i'm back to square one again :(

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-02-18T11:19:04+00:00

    After this update that should fix the sleep isuess etc, I have trouble waking my Surface at all. Either just close the lid ( the type cover keybord) or turn the Surface of, wait 5-10 minutes I can hardly Wake it up. I have to press Power button several times to get this thing started.

    Please Microsoft. It's worse now since the update.

    Another short test:  Battery said 5h 50 min 89%. Close the type cover, let it wait for 2h. Started it (with the above trouble). Then it said 68% left and 3h 50 min.

    Is that your idea of improvment?

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