MacBook Pro won't "wake" up after sleep mode!

I wonder if other's have discovered this. Would appreciate some observations and feedback. I've noticed that if I open my computer and won't wake from sleep mode if I wait about 60 seconds and don't do anything it suddenly wakes up. I've tried this every time it won't wake up and sure enough, after about a minute, it wakes up and all is well. Not an ideal situation, but doesn't require a reboot. Anyone else try this?

Thanks

the last few weeks the same problem occurs to me every morning after sending my macbook pro to sleep. it wont wake up at least the screen doesn't. the macbook itself is awakening but the screen stays black. i tried everything i could find here and in other threads and forum posts. what i discovered is this, the macbook will wake up correctly if I unplug the power before closing the lid and set it to sleep mode! doing this while the power cable is plugged in it wont wake up. so what I did next is try to set all parameters available in this energy mode like the one on batterie and will make a sleep / wake up test this night.

i'm partionally happy about dont having this problem on batterie mode. nevertheless i will call the apple hotline to get my backbook fixed!

SioSae

I had similar issues, but I think I may have found the cause for mine. I periodically had .mac synch popping up in the background with a prompt. Occasionally I would ctach this pop window while the computer was awake. I think what was happing was that the pop menu was waiting for input behind the black screen when the computer lid was opened. I could hear sounds and the drive startup but no picture. I have disabled synch to troubleshoot .. so far several days and my Macbook seems to wake up fine.

I'M HAVING THE SAME ISSUE WITH MY MBP DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT IS UP WITH THIS GLITCH...AND IF APPLE IS GOING TO FIX IT???
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THANK YOU

Yep. Same problem. I've had nothing but headaches with this thing since my wife bought if for me as a Christmas present. First I had screen artifacts, after which the MBP would freeze up. Got that fixed, then I couldn't turn it on unless the power cord was in. The Geniuses replaced the battery, which solved that problem, after which the current troubles began. Not only will it not wake up after sleep, but it won't start up until I've pushed the power button several times. I never know which time it's going to work. Sometimes it won't come on at all until I've pulled the battery and put it back in.

I spent 25 years as an IT manager in a Windows shop, and I have to say I never had this much trouble with any Wintel system. I used to envy the Apple folks, because I thought they had it easier. HA! At this point, even Vista is looking good.

Leopard hasn't exactly provided the type of user experience we've come to expect from Apple. I think a lot of us are disappointed. I know I am.

I posted in a thread about the problem of the machine getting stuck in sleep. You should check it out:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6765992#6765992

I´m running 10.52 on a new mbp with a new logic board...if my machine sleeps for more than 10 minutes, it won´t wake up. Dear APPLE, this is all over the discussion boards and internet, we are waiting for the fix. I´m not running any strange software and I´m not letting it sleep with anything open. This happened after 10.5.2 for me.

Yep, me too.

I used to brag to my Windows friends that I could actually put my Mac to sleep and it would behave -- unlike any Windows laptop I've ever used. Oh well.

Leopard has been a series of quality issues for me. I guess they had everyone working on the iPhone. I hope they get it back together before the next release.

-t

Me too. The only way I can be sure my MBP will wake up is to not put it to sleep.

Which is kind of hard when you're mobile.

Yes, I'd seen that post and tried disabling SafeSleep, but it didn't help - at least not for me. Weird thing is, a friend of mine came over yesterday and used my MBP, then closed the lid. When I just opened it, the thing woke up just fine. So I'm officially confused.

It's definitely intermittent. I disabled Safe Sleep and it has behaved normally. Not enough time has passed to verify it though.

Oh, and I still lose Bluetooth after waking, which forces me to reboot anyway to regain it.

For me right now it is happening intermittently, maybe once or twice a week if that often. I did listen to the posts here and last time I waited to see what would happen and after about 45 seconds lo and behold it eventually came up.

I agree that is unacceptable, but at least it doesn't require a hard reset. Maybe if we can start looking at our system logs for any strange behavior when it awakes from that state we can find a common culprit. I haven't taken a good look at mine yet, but I plan on checking it out because I want this annoyance solved.

I'm having similar problems on my Powerbook. Running OS 10.5.2.

Many other dutch people have the same problem. It is discussed in a topic on tweakers.net (forum: got.tweakers.net). Some of them found the problem was solved after removing their iStat widget and/or menu bar tool. It seems to have something to do with the memory monitor of iStat.

I don't run iStat. However, recently I found that it's something else people have been talking about in the same topic. When you let your laptop go to sleep with the power cable attached, detach the power cable and try to wake it up, it doesn't work. So a solution ( couch) is to keep the power cable plugged or unplugged when the laptop is asleep.

Can you guys try these tips? *Maybe report what works?*

I can't wait for 10.5.3 btw... hope the problem will be resolved!!

Balthasar Schopman wrote:
I'm having similar problems on my Powerbook. Running OS 10.5.2.

Many other dutch people have the same problem. It is discussed in a topic on tweakers.net (forum: got.tweakers.net). Some of them found the problem was solved after removing their iStat widget and/or menu bar tool. It seems to have something to do with the memory monitor of iStat.

I don't run iStat. However, recently I found that it's something else people have been talking about in the same topic. When you let your laptop go to sleep with the power cable attached, detach the power cable and try to wake it up, it doesn't work. So a solution ( couch) is to keep the power cable plugged or unplugged when the laptop is asleep.

Can you guys try these tips? *Maybe report what works?*

I experienced also that problem, after the 10.5.2 upgrade, but since I did "something" on my MBP, this problem has never happened again. I guess it's been a month now.

What I did is to disable Deep (Safe) Sleep.

I had noticed that I got the problem after having closed the lid and tossed the laptop in my backpack. I've been using Mac laptops since the first iBook. The sleep mode was by default the "light" sleep mode. When Safe Sleep mode got introduced, it was an opt-in option. I've not noticed when Apple made it the default.

So, the issue was that the 2GB of memory image was still dumped to the disk while I literally tossed the Mac in my backpack. The accelerometer most certainly has captured this and protected the drive ... resulting in a corrupt memory image.

Now that I've turned off Safe Sleep mode, there is no risk in rushing grabbing - and shacking - the laptop to my next meeting, or home.

As for the recent firmware upgrade, my MBP is excluded from this upgrade (B05). I believed it's because that firmware upgrade is for a specific processor design. My MBP is a 2.6GHz MacBookPro3,1 (I believe it's not a Penryn)

Now I'm having this problem, too. My hard drive is a 200 GB Toshiba MK2035GSS.