MBP 15" i7 wont automatically go to sleep

I haven't done the update yet, but I called Apple support the other day to let them know that when I am calibrating my battery, the warning message comes up as expected when it almost runs out, then, the computer actually shuts down instead of going to sleep (with the light pulsating). Instead, it seems to go into "safe sleep" mode. When it is charged back up, I see the safe sleep mode process when I start back up (a progress bar with blurry screen) and then all is normal. I was told by the tech that this was normal for the "newer MBP's." It will be interesting to see if yesterdays firmware update makes this different. However, I was at least told by AS that this behavior is normal.

No automatic sleep after the firmware update. Oh well....

same same

Scratch that, mine's back to acting up again. I have no idea what is going on here.

Hey,

has anyone got any news?

After discussions with apple, firmware updates and the latest OS updates mine is still having the same issue.

My machine is now 6 months old. I'm afraid we'll never get this fixed. What is apple thinking?

OK. Something is really weird here. First of all OS X 10.6.5 didn't change a thing for me.

However, in the meantime I realized that my test system (blank installation of OS X) actually does go sleep. It takes approximately 5 minutes longer than it is supposed to.

So now I have to figure out what piece of software on my computer prevents my MBP from going to sleep. That probably means installing one program after the other on the second partition... Very dull.

Yet another MacBook with this problem -

This time a brand-new MacBook Air 13".

Symptoms are that it mostly but not always fails to sleep when lid open, regardless of whether it's plugged in.

One key symptom is the "com.apple.systempreferences[194]: Couldn't find any matches" message in the Console every time I try to edit energy saver settings.

Seems like this must be pointing at some root cause of the problem, but it's way beyond my skill to track this one down.

Yes I have the same problem with also a new macbook Pro i5 15'', but I also discovered that started to make a little more noise than the usual, I honestly don't know if its the hard drive or a fan but started after the battery ran out, what happened? It only has 2 weeks of use!

I found the culprit for me. If any of you have Nik Software or onOne Software plugins for Photoshop, the problem could be the licensing software they install behind the scenes.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12367250
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11769045

This seemed to do the trick for me. Even after you uninstall these programs, it leaves behind the Protec6 folder in your Library, so you'll need to get rid of that and make sure Nalpierond6 is not running in your activity monitor.

If you use these programs, you may just have to live with the no sleeping behavior until this Nalpieron company gets their act together with software that does mess with the functionality of our systems.

I have this software installed in my 17", however, my sleepless computer had that problem before I installed that software.

It's not just MBP's of any vintage being impacted by this. It appears to be an issue across many product lines. I'm seeing it on an iMac and a White Macbook, but strangely enough not on my MBP 17. There are active posts describing this behavior in virtually all of the intel mac discussion groups on the site.

I've posted a guide here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8468
it should fix any auto-sleep problem as long as you can manually enter sleep & wakeup from it.

cheers.

I, too, have this problem 😟

Very odd thing happened...

I was using Safari and tried to play a video for a product on the Amazon site. My MBP completely locked up. Nothing worked except the mouse. I couldn't force quit, I couldn't go to finder, it was very weird. So I hard powered off my MBP and rebooted it. I, of course, then did repair disk permissions...something I do on a fairly regular basis. Rebooted computer after that and all is fine.

HOWEVER...NOW my MBP auto-sleeps!!! Huh!? I have tried many things before, including repairing permissions, with no success. I am completely confused unless there was some update somewhere that recently fixed my issue, but the Apple updates are nothing that big. I have all the same periphs attached, no new software, didn't uninstall anything, just very strange but glad it's fixed.

Very, very strange.

That lasted a week. Now my MBP is sleepless again. Booo!