surface book battery drain while shut down

Anonymous
2015-12-09T16:09:58+00:00

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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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  1. Anonymous
    2016-02-03T03:31:06+00:00

    Now this I see as an issue. Not all notebooks are the same, and I  suspect that even in power down mode some part of the machine is still active.  Depends on how it is made. In the old days desktop used small internal batteries to keep certain functions going, the clock for example. Notebooks rely on their built in batteries for these types of things.  

    I suspect part of the issue here is related to the release mechanism,  which apparently stays active even when powered off. Remember it is an electronic release not a mechanical one.   Microsoft most likely did this to prevent people from breaking the device by releasing it when powered off. Remember most two and ones are mechanical not electronic. I  can live with a 4% drop over two days. That is not an issue for me. Before it was losing about 10 to 15 percent a day, so the update has helped me.

    I  don't think that you can expect it to perform like other two and ones or notebooks that are far less complicated.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-03T01:02:52+00:00

    Just got off with support.  they had me uninstall the battery drivers (not delete) and restart.  I will allow to recharge and find out if it helped tomorrow.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-02T23:44:41+00:00

    Just goes to show we are all having widespread random issues. I blame Skylake. Yes, try going to support. In the Philippines. They're mostly clueless.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-02-02T23:14:28+00:00

    Just got new unit and having the same problem, but drops below 40% in a couple of days.  Tells me it cannot do updates when battery power is lower than 40% even if plugged in!  Has anyone gone to support with the problem?

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-02-02T14:30:22+00:00

    After the January 27 update, I lost tablet battery power of 5% in just 8 hours.  Have just left it on for the last few nights, but will test it again tonight. And I don't use hibernate.

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