Mac mini M1 Sleep mode and Mouse connectivity problem

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Mac mini M1 Sleep mode and Mouse connectivity problem

Hi,

I purchased an M1 Mac mini 4 months ago with 16Gb memory and 2TB SSD.

After installing all my sample library the mouse started to stutter. Every time I opened the sound setting in preferences mouse would freeze about a second or 2. I contacted apple tech support they asked me to create a guest account which showed the same result.

I took it to the apple store and someone at the genius bar checked the hardware and said there is no problem and I had to do a clean install. Which I did, and now again the mouse started stuttering and freezing again, I haven't installed any new application.

Also, When I put the mac in Sleep mode, It keeps turning on within seconds, And when it does go to sleep mode and I come back to turn it on again, It has trouble waking up the monitor VIA HDMI cable (I tried 4 different HDMI cables), The monitor says there is no signal. and when it does wake up after turning off and on the monitor a couple of times and the machine says You turned off your computer because of a problem and wants to report the problem, then open all applications that I closed as well as all the ones that were open when I put it in sleep mode.

What do you guys suggest I could do? I purchased this Mac hoping I could easily produce music and edit videos with FCPX but I really can't work with stuttering mouse.

I have 1 Tb of sample libraries I don't want to clean install every time there is a problem. It is painful, I have never had such a problem with any of the Macs I owned in the past 10 years. What do you guys suggest?

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Jul 28, 2021 3:53 AM

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hcsitas

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Jul 28, 2021 5:11 AM in response to AydinZ

For starters, disable Sleep. Not needed on the M1, is all pain, negligible gain. Check “Prevent…” in Energy Preferences. You can leave the setting to switch monitor(s) off on timer, unrelated. Once that’s done, update here please on what problems still persist.

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AydinZ Author

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Jul 31, 2021 3:20 AM in response to hcsitas

Since I checked "Prevent Computer from sleeping automatically" both problems has been solved. The mouse doesn't stutter or freezes anymore and the mac wakes up the monitor immediately without any problem. So mac mini M1 has problem going to sleep mode? anyways, I'm happy I can work now. Thank you.

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Calebjc

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Aug 3, 2021 6:26 AM in response to AydinZ

Thanks. This might work, but it isn't a solution. There's a bug somewhere. I've tried three different new monitors and my 2020 M1 will only wake them up when sleeping within about an hour. After more time than that sleeping, the computer will wake up, and I can see time machine backing up on external drives, etc. but the monitor will not wake up. I think the bug therefore is somewhere in waking up the output signal to the monitor.

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AydinZ Author

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Aug 4, 2021 4:17 AM in response to Calebjc

I agree, It's a shame such a powerful machine has a bug like this. But as long as it can be solved by an update I won't complain. For now, Disabling sleep mode seem to be working. Considering an idle M1 doesn't consume much more than an M1 in sleep mode there is no need to have the sleep mode, But ideally sleep mode shouldn't be a problem.

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