iMac with Lion not waking after overnight sleep

I may have found a solution.

I have tried loads and tons of methods, to fix internet, wake, BT, reboot problems, such that I have read through the posts.

Removing the power, PR reset, permission fix, mDNSResponder, Blued, remove then add BT devices etc etc. Hope I am not mistaken, but after months of trial and error I went withturning my Magic Trackpad off and not using it. Yes, I did spend money to buy it, but it seems that this may have been the problem.

Try it, maybe it helps.

My up time is about a week now, instead of hours or a day or two.

Still, Apple MUST fix this frustrating issue. :-(

This "fix" does not work for everyone. I do not own a track pad and I still have the blue tooth issue. I own a magic mouse and a Bluetooth keyboard. If you search the forum, you will see a few of my posts. :(

Now I am not happy to hear this, I'm sorry. :-(

Now lets see, you must have tried unparing, turning off then reparing these gadgets, and also force quitting "blued" from utilities - activity monitor, right?

Let's see your hibarnate mode. Type into terminal:

sudo pmset -g | grep hibernatemode

See http://goo.gl/Eqoi to understand its value (intiger from 0 to 7)

Ok.. I have waited a few days before posting this and I may yet end up eating my words but here goes - caution to the wind..

I updated to OS X 10.7.3 when it came out a few days ago and immediately began to sleep my iMac as often as I could.. So far - after a few long sleeps and overnighters - it has woken up ok...

Could it be they have fixed this issue in 10.7.3?

I sincerely hope so..

I had given up on sleeping since about November - always powering down my machine - now its on 24/7 again...

Anyone else trying this?

to all: before you update to 10.7.3: read the threads here and read the mac journals: do not update through "software update" but download the Combo Update and install it.

I second that advice..

Just to update - another two days later and my Mac is still behaving itself and waking from sleep every time - my wifi, bluetooth mouse and trackpad both active!!

This is looking good at last!!

As I described in an earlier post, I have had this problem. I have the trio of BT devices on a mid-2011 27" iMac.

I updated to 10.7.3. the other day, and yesterday worked up the courage to put this computer to sleep.

Like Techworld Services, mine woke up when I went to wake it a few hours later.

I know just one occurrence does not a conclusion make, so we'll see if it keeps up.

Hope the update fixes it. Just had a chat with apple care and the rep don't even know about this problem.

I'll add a failure mode that I noticed for this bug. It also happens for me when I disconnect stuff from the USB. It's random what device causes this (ipad, iphone android, canon 7D) and whether it happens or not it's a luck of the draw.

**** and blast.

Since Feruary 6th I have been running 10.7.3 on my (late 2009) imac and sleeping regularly for several hours at a time (up to around 9 hours). But yesterday evening I put it to sleep and 24 hours later no wakeup (mouse, keyboard & trackpad locked).

I swear it is much better but Apple clearly have not fixed the problem.

Apple still hasn't officially recognized the issue, and therefore has not sent an update patch (including the latest .3). I gave up long ago putting my iMac to sleep. It simply isn't worth the trouble.

Unfortunately, that isn't the only sleep issue that came packaged with Lion. Other problems also still persist including not waking at for network access (for ATV), and not reconnecting to WiFi known networks. All of them affect me, and the support forums are filled with others in the same boat. Apple, however, is turning a blind eye.

Hello all. I've installed the release 10.7.3 on a 2010 iMac.

I've got a bluetooth kb, a magic mouse and a trackpad.

After a week, same problem's back.

I switch off the trackpad and now... No more problem.

The pb is, for me, the trackpad.

Same story - updated to 10.7.3, and the next time I had 3 BT devices connected, iMac could not be woken up because it lost BT connection to all 3 devices. As long as I only had 2 devices, this didn't happen, even before the update.

Dear Jeff63 and Dimitri B,

That's what the situation is in my case as well.

Check out my post at Jan 17, 2012 6:34 PM.

With trackpad as well (keyb + mouse - both orig Apple BT) there is wake error (have to VNC into may iMac) no BT, internet, system prefs, not even reboot or shut down.

Just the power button.

:-(

Georgio

I too updated to 10.7.3 and still had the issue.

In my case it's intermittent but annoying when it happens.

I can connect a USB keyboard and mouse to login and see what's going on. What I see is the Bluetooth radio is turned off, which is why the BT devices don't work. Turning on the BT radio does nothing - it doesn't power up the BT radio.

The last time it happened, I called Apple Tech Support and the lady told me to take my 2011 iMac in for repair to get the BT card replaced. I haven't done that yet, but I hope it works.

Those of you having this trouble, trying plugging in a USB keyboard and mouse and see if the BT radio is ON.

Same here Georgio_1

You may recall my previous posts that I upgraded to 10.7.3

All was well - iMac slept and woke up even after up to 13 hours at a time over a few weeks.. Right up in fact until yesterday morning when for some unknown reason it reverted back to its previous behaviour.

No mouse. No keyboard. No Trackpad. No Bluetooth. No Wifi. Plugged in a USB mouse and was able to shut machine down to a spinning globe then had to hit reset button.

Argh!!

So.. it is definately better but sadly not cured 100%..

Any engineers from Apple monitoring this thread???

That seems to be the consensus from other users too...