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My SP4 gets very hot and drains the battery very fast even though it is asleep. I found it very hot in its sleeve and down to 28% earlier today. Found it dead later in the afternoon. This is one of MANY issues this device has.
(My SP4 is not part of the insider program)
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Hi All,
We released an update on 2/17/2016 that addresses this issue.
We recommend that you install this update to keep your Surface performing its best. You can get updates now by checking Settings> Update & security> Windows Update.
To confirm the updates are installed, check Settings> Update & security> Windows Update> Advanced options> View your update history.
Thanks,
Josh
I have the beta installed. Will test sleep soon. Edge doesn't seem to crash on sites that it did in the past. For example, scrolling through sites heavy on images would almost always cause a driver crash, e.g, catsofinstagram.com/archive.
You may have the old July driver still available even after the updates.
In the device manager, go to display adapter and update driver. Choose Browse my computer option, and then Let me pick from a list towards the bottom.
Might I ask for the link from which you downloaded it? :)
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I have the beta installed. Will test sleep soon. Edge doesn't seem to crash on sites that it did in the past. For example, scrolling through sites heavy on images would almost always cause a driver crash, e.g, catsofinstagram.com/archive.
You may have the old July driver still available even after the updates.
In the device manager, go to display adapter and update driver. Choose Browse my computer option, and then Let me pick from a list towards the bottom.
Thanks for the info. I read in another forum that one rolled back the display driver version to an older date (July) and that the drain rate in that case was back to the 500 mW or roughly 1% per hour. I haven't tried doing that yet.
Additionally, Intel released a beta version of the display driver yesterday. Hopefully something will come along soon for Surface devices.
Yes, if you have 1%/h that is "ok" again... Sadly 1% drain per hour is normal in Windows 10, never had any better since Windows 10 came out, making me really angry, and I am close to switch back to Windows 8.1, where I had a drain of 0.3% per hour!! Battery life is the most important thing on a mobile device, and Microsoft even claimed that Windows 10 should drain less than Windows 8, or even give options for power saving like turning off background services or such, which was totally a lie.
