macbook air with lion not waking up from sleep

Just came back from Genius bar with same issue as everyone has described. Could find no hardware issues and nothing in logs that indicate there is a problem. I told him that there are a lot of complaints about this in the community but he said it can't be widespread because not a lot of people have come in over the issue. Gave me a few things to try, like using a guest account and see if the problem persists, if not will exchange.

well I really hope enough people will go to the Apple store and report the issue. I was showing the dudes at Apple this forum post but it didn't seem to have much of an impact.

I installed Lion on my MacBook Pro 13" from 2009 and it now exhibits the same issue as my new mba where it takes several seconds for any interaction to show on the screen. It has a self installed ssd.

Yeah confirms my test too, SSD + Lion = slow wake issue. 😟

There is no sense in exchanging since it is apparent it is a software issue in Lion, not a hardware issue with the SSD. Read Denis' reply where he found it on a MacBook Pro with a third party SSD.

The thing for everyone to do is report the bug to Apple here.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Isn't it interesting that all the new air's with SSD's still have the drive named MacintoshHD even though it's not a HD!!! Should be MacintoshSSD

I'm usually happy to look at forums and not contrubute, but on this occasion it seems we need as many documented cases of the "wake from sleep" issue.

I have a MBA i7 13". I've owned it for about 6 days and had this issue about 10 times. There are no Apple stores in my country so I can't have anyone check it out, but I can live with it for now. Here's hoping for a software fix soon.

i had the same issue. it is relatively slow to wake up afer opening it and i have called Apple Care several times and i even went to the Apple retail store. None of these resolves the problem . I did check the models in the store and i found out almost every mac with the Lion have this issue. That was such a relief for me . However, there is this review on youtube and his Air wakes up very quick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SahkBDKfjQ...

I am so confused. Is this just a inconsistency between the software and hardware. If that is the case, how come there are some Air working just fine with it ....

I really hope this is not something that i have to fix!!!

I think it is purely a Lion issue. A partial fix appears to be going into System Preferences >> Startup Disk, and selecting your Macintosh HD as your startup disk and pressing the lock button. Reboot and see if this helps.

I think I found the solution/problem. in energy saver settings remove check from the box "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" for the battery and the Power adapter. It is a definately OS X bug. It will affect your battery life, and but at list it works without the rebooting the whole thing.

Changing the "put hard disk to sleep" setting didn't help for me. Still 5 seconds + to wake.

(And a new weird thing: when I go to sleep on Desktop 1 and wake by hitting a letter key, the first thing it does when I wake it, after it wakes, is to switch to Desktop 2! Odd.

in my case, i'm able to "wake up" from the sleep after this "fix". time to wake up around 3-5 sec.

Sorry--I should clarify: I never had a total failure to wake, just slow waking. That checkbox didn't help my version of the problem, but it seems to have helped yours!

Sounds like you're currently seeing the same slow wakes I do (even 3 seconds is longer than Macs used to take) but you have solved your bigger problem of not waking at all! Good to tip to share with others.

There's a Mac OS X update with the following line:

Resolve an issue where MacBook Air may boot up when MagSafe Adapter is attached

Hopefully this fixes the issue.

Edit: Sorry I jumped the gun and didn't read it properly. Any way, there's an update that fixes a few things. Hopefully Apple have fixed the issue. Fingers crossed

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