following is a list of issues i've had as i hope they might help finding the cause to the problem. Some of them are known issues but they might be related anyway. I'm also stating things from a personal feeling, so i'm not stating things as being 'true', but it might set other people on the way to finding that cause.
Problems described are happening at home, so never when i'm using only the laptop in an external environment.
My system is the rMBP basic one bought in september, actually bought in august and had to wait over 4 weeks to get it.Anyway, on to the issue.
No files imported as this is my first mac os x based system. It was delivered with ML installed so i didnt need to upgrade either.
I'm having more or less the same issue as for 'not waking from sleep'. The main difference i feel is, i havent had to hard reset my laptop when the issue occured. It's just really slow in responding. It might easily take up to a minute, maybe 2 to wake the system. Secondly it doesn't happen every time it goes to sleep, wild guess about half the time.
it might be true (didnt pay to much attention to it but it feels true when i'm saying it) that it only happens after the laptop is in sleep mode for a longer period, not necessarily hours but probably not within the first 5 minutes.
I'm not seeing anything on the screen in contrast to other people seeing white cursor. After pressing some keys and to much patience, it just shouldnt happen for a system this 'high' end, it does alway wake from sleepmode. Also it happens a lot that the computer lags alot first seconds after sleepmode.
i'm having the habbit of always connecting my rMBP to AC when at home and it's 90% of the time connected to an external monitor too. Benq digital monitor. so mini to dvi.
The very first time i connected the screen it started flickering after maybe a minute or 5 and the flickering didnt stop.
- reconnect in same port didnt help
- change mini port helped
- changing to original port with issue -> problem was still solved
since then the problem has happened another 2 times (having the laptop 1-2 months) but was always solved by reconnecting.
my system has had 1 crash second day after i got it. since then no crashes.
at home its connected to 2 bluetooth devices: magic mouse and wireless keyboard (mouse has had disconnects/connects freak outs) but it has nothing to do with batterylife as it's still working without issues after more then a month after first occurence and i havent changed the batteries.
my laptop is also using TC for backing up and i noticed when it wakes slowly, the TC gets activated i can easily hear it, and when it's like it's done reactivating, my laptop wakes.
I was having a thought it might be the laptop doing backups while in sleep mode.
backing up in TC settings when on battery power is turned on.
power nap on battery is off.
power nap on AC is on and so is the wake for wifi.
tonight i had my system closed when i left, i can't tell in what exact order i disconnected AC, disconnected monitor or closed the laptop, but i'm 100% sure it had 100% battery when i closed it. When i opened my laptop after arriving at my destination it was at 76% battery life and was extremely hot, fans where going hard when i woke the laptop.
so my guess here would be the system was set to sleep before disconnecting the AC. The system remembered it could do backups as it was set to sleep with backups on AC enabled. It tried backing up while actually being off AC hence why it was getting hot. I noticed it's getting quite warm while backing up while just doing some simple chatting, so i imagine it'll get real hot while being closed and in my bag for that matter. Maybe the expected check of the AC is missing/failing after the system was set to sleep? Settings conflict between TC/backup setting and Energy saving setting?
The slow booting i'd imagine would be caused by the backups. Whenever i try to pauze the backups while i'm doing some more heavily developping/designing work to ease up my laptop, it takes about the same amount of time my laptop needs when it wakes slow from sleepmode. My logic says it's possibly because the laptop can't wake before completely pauzing the back up process. This would also explain the 'sounds' of the TC more as working then booting.
Slow booting happens both on AC and off AC.
i've now disabled the backups when of AC, but i'm only expecting this to save battery when in sleep. Not to solve the slow waking. Later on i'll probably disable power nap in energy saving to check if that helps for the slow wakes.
hope this helps
