Macbook Pro waking up when put to sleep

This seems to be turning into my blog, since no one else posts, here. My original post on this issue went into hybernation

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11778352#11778352

with no answer. I seem to have taken over this one.

When I search for "Wake Reason" I find that before Saturday, the reason was almost always EC LID0, which apparently means opening the lid. Starting Saturday evening, however, the only reason for waking has been EHC1--meaning it always wakes immediately after being put to sleep--it's never asleep long enough for the lid to be opened.

Off to the Apple Store.

The genius said that they had pretty much replaced any hardware that could be an issue, so he suggested an erase and install. I'd been trying to avoid this.

This week I erased the drive and re-installed the OS. I then used migration assistant to copy from a clone everything except my settings and my user account. Then I copied the user acount without the Library. (The problem occurred on all user accounts, so this seems weird.) I've spent the week rebuilding preferneces, passwords, etc.

I haven't had the auto-waking issue since I did the erase. But last time the problem re-appeared only after a month of freedom. We'll see...

A week after the erase and install it's back. Sunday I tried to use my little Canoscan scanner, and the driver was missing. I tried for hours to re-install, a painful and thankless attempt. I finally ran the scanner by booting by clone. It is after this that the auto-wake problem recurred. It happens on other user accounts, as well.

I've tried to purge the computer of all bits left by the driver install-attempts to see if that my be the cause. An hour later I'm still able to sleep, so maybe this has been the problem. (The cloned drive still is trouble free.)

The saga continues...

Nope. It's back.

Searched Google for this sleep/wake issue and landed on this post...

I've been having the exact same problem... but didn't realize it until this past month. I've had my MBP for just over 3 years now, but generally had left it on all day and night. Now that I bought a iMac, i've been putting the MBP to sleep... but it keeps waking up for a few seconds (with the DVD drive making the ejecting-sound) every 'X' minutes (i haven't bothered to figure out the interval, thought that might be useful info).

Anyhow, I also grabbed my mom's MBP bought at the same time. As I'm planning to sell it, I wiped the drive totally clean, and installed Snow Leapord and installed all the available updates. Same frickin' problem! :-O

On both mine and hers, the logic board had been replaced at some point for other issues. Hers once, mine twice.

I'm thinking this isn't a logic board issue, rather a crappy design issue... possibly specific to MBPs/MBs bought around the same time? (mine was purchased ~ June 2007, fyi).

I have a 2006 MBP that's never had the issue. My 2010 MBP is the one that wake's immediately. Do you see the EHC1 reason in the logs?

I've run the computer off an external hard drive that is a clone for days, and the issue has not shown up. I have a clone on a portable, and I'll try for a longer time.

Working with a clone seems to imply that it's not software. Continuing after a logic board replacement seems to indicate that it's not hardware. Hmmm.

I stated waiting for the instant wake to reappear so I could boot off the portable clone and see how that worked. But the instant wake never showed up. I've been up for 9 1/2 days now with no sleep issues. Cool!

I am having the exact same problem. Just what does EHC1 mean? Does it mean a USB device is waking the machine?

I sometimes also see messages indicating that there is a lot switching on en1. I wasn't sure if en1 was referring to my Airport or Ethernet, which is not connected, so I turned off Airport. No change.

Do you use Parallels for virtual machines? Parallels can interact directly with USB devices, so I thought maybe that was the problem as well. Quitting Parallels before sleep had no affect either.

It's gotten to the point that I have to reboot my machine before I leave for work every morning. I've got to find a solution.

Steve

I'm having the same problem. I contacted Apple Support 3 times before I got my case escalated to a higher level customer service rep. I've sent her a whole bunch of data capture. She told me she'll be forwarding it to the engineers since there are others having similar problems. I'm keeping my fingers crossed they'll find a software fix to this.

I eliminated boot camp and stopped using vm fusion some months ago-- that had no effect on the waking problem.

Before I re-booted for other reasons, I was up for over two weeks with no auto-wake, so it looks like my problem has been fixed. I erased the drive and re-installed the OS. I then used migration assistant to copy from a clone everything except my settings and my user account. Then I copied the user account without the Library.

This is a pain, and it may not all be necessary, but it seems to have worked. As I said earlier, I had a recurrence when I tried to install scanner software that included some auto-login items. But since eliminating them I've had no problems. So the difficulty may be confined to certain drivers and/or login items. I think the first thing to try is to get rid of all the log-in apps.

I'm guessing that something I have run alters the OS in some way, so that afterwards even other user accounts are affected. The trick is finding just what did it.

Hmm, interesting theory. Want to compare login items? Here are mine:

gfxCardStatus
SlimBatteryMonitor
Temperature Monitor
SMARTReporter
iTouch-Server
ASM
Dashboard KickStart
LMILaunchAgentFixer (not sure what this is from)
SwitchResX Daemon
GrowlHelperApp
BlueHarvest
Activity Monitor
HyperDock Helper (just added this so I doubt it's a culprit)
Watts
SIMBL Agent
MouseWorks Background

But part of the problem in solving this is that it doesn't happen right away. Usually my first few sleep cycles are fine.

One more thing: I also have SmartSleep installed to do a real sleep instead of a hibernate. But I tried putting this back to the regular OS setting and I still had the problem.

Steve

I just heard back from the Apple service rep. She said the engineers are still working me issue but that it seems to be a rare problem. I commented that on these forums there are a whole slew of people suffering from the same thing. She responded that unless the other people call in for help, they can't really use their experiences to solve the problem. So, for those of you willing to do so, call in to Apple support and let them know you're having trouble with this. The more we complain, the more they'll pay attention and the more information they'll have to work with.

My phone support has expired. Will they still help if that's the case?

Steve

Sorry, I'm not sure.

Just called in to Applecare myself on this issue. I have an appointment at a Genius Bar for next Wednesday for diagnostics. I really hope this isn't a major issue.

Steve