So no update was released today. I guess Thurrott was wrong.
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I have been noticing that when I shutdown my surface book, when I power it on the next day the battery has drained some. If I leave it off for a couple of days it will drain down from 100% to around 85% or lower.
I disabled fast startup... and then just decided to disable hibernation altogether. That didn't help.
I have windows hello disabled, but that shouldn't matter anyway since I'm shutting it down, not sleeping.
Some searching and I found a general windows 10 issue with the "Intel Management Engine Interface" driver. Some say that v11 can cause this issue. One solution that I have seen suggested is to go into device manager and in the power management tab for this device uncheck the option that allows windows to power it down to save power. I tried that and it didn't help.
Others have suggested downgrading the driver from v11 to v9 or v10, but I don't know where to get v9 or v10 of this driver that is compatible with the surface book. Anyone know if one of the downloads on Intel's site would be compatible?
So, has anyone else noticed this issue and know of a fix?
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2016-01-16T21:22:02+00:00 He mentioned it on the latest Windows Weekly podcast. You can find it at Thurrott.com or twit.tv
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Anonymous
2016-01-16T20:41:06+00:00 According to Pamul Thurrott on thurrott.com the Microsoft update that will fix power problems will be here on Tuesday, January 19th.
I'm not finding this. Could you please provide a full web link to the report.
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Anonymous
2016-01-16T19:46:21+00:00 According to Pamul Thurrott on thurrott.com the Microsoft update that will fix power problems will be here on Tuesday, January 19th.
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Anonymous
2016-01-16T18:41:50+00:00 My surface book is experiencing the same problem with battery drain after shutdown. Full charge ==> shutdown ==> 3 days later down to 75%. I want so much to like the SB but this is ridiculous!
Attached is the powercfg showing Full Charge on Jan 13, 2016 with no usage until turn on on Jan 16, 2016. All updates applied. No extra software installed ..not even office. Connected Standby disabled.