Problem with waking from sleep with 10.8.2

I thought I had my MacBook Pro fixed but after reading bonfire's post I checked and found I was running with the better-battery-life option. That does not use the graphics card. I changed the graphics to higher-performance and the wake from sleep issue returned. My graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT and I cannot find any updates for it.

Still looking into this to see if there are alternatives.

Turning off the wake-for-network-activity avoids the problem so I'll be running with that option turned off until I can find a better solution.

I have voiced my problem previously on this forum: MacBook Pro7,1 13" 8GB RAM 256GB HD. After trying many varied suggestions made in forum. MacBook still often fails to wake from sleep. It use to be every time but the disable wake from Network setting seems to have pushed the problem to "very often" from "every time." Important to note that this is the ONLY issue I have with my MacBook and it started happening IMMEDIATELY after the 10.8.2 update.

Seems clear APPLE need to provide a definitive solution with an official software fix/update. It's not good enough that their loyal clients are left with a haphazzard collection of half fixes we have put together ourselves!

Chet Rindfuss is right : you must be carreful using this kind of software and this new version could bring you desagreaments.

For anyone without adventurous temperament it is safer to wait until the official release throught Software Update in the Apple Menu is available.

Maybe, probably, there are multiple possible causes to the "not waking up" problem of our Mac OS 10.8 machines, and what worked for me may not work for others. That is another good reason not to act and just wait.

As for the "Pay $99 to enroll" I know that you can register for free somewhere but because https://developer.apple.com/programs/register/ is in maintenance now I can't go further to see where is the link for it. You don't get access to all software with a free registration but hopefully you are allowed to download System updates.

Mac Pro is running for more than a week now without any problem under Mac OS 10.8.3 Build 12D38 :

Mac-Pro-**-Bureau:~ ld$ uname -r

12.3.0

Mac-Pro-**-Bureau:~ ld$ uptime

6:55 up 7 days, 22:38, 3 users, load averages: 1.73 1.49 1.21

Look I am also running OS X mountain lion 10.8.2 and after i put my computer to sleep its easy for me to wake it up by pressing any key. I face a problem that i can't wake my computer via touching the trackpad. Else everything is fine and hereby i don't need to restat it again. Try installing combo update to resolve the problem.

Hi Wonka,

The sleep problem in OS-X 10.8.2 also appears with imac's and mac pro's running NO programm's at all

when they get into sleep.

Nevertheless, these computers won't wake up, or wake up with a distorted screen.

The sleep problem in this discussion unfortunately seems to have no relation with the Webkit engine.

By the way:

10.7.5, 10.6.8 and 10.8.1 seem to have no sleep/ graphic issues like mentioned in this discussion.

However, there were other serious graphic issues with professional audio app's,

like Cubase and Logic in 10.7 and 10.8

These problems are meanwhile solved with Apple updates.

Apple changed a lot of graphic related cases in 10.7 and 10.8

And one of these changes in 10.8 is causing sleep mode problems.

I am shure they will solve it.

Try my temporary workaround solution as mentioned before untill the eatable brand

comes with a working update.

Best regards,

Danny

Been following these discussions for a few months. I've got a similar problem--MacBook Pro (fall 2012) won't wake from deep sleep unless I plug in to power source. Then battery has an x through it for a couple of minutes, then changes to actual battery %.

Here's what I've tried so far.

Reset SMC

Reset PRAM

Repair permissions

Boot in Safe Mode

Deleted Power Management plist file

Changed screensaver (worked for someone in the discussions forum)

Adjusted Startup/Wake time in Energy Saver (also worked for someone)

Update firmware with 1.8 (suggested for my machine)

Downloaded Smart Sleep--set it to Sleep only, thought it was working for a few days, but machine would not wake up again yesterday and today

Just read about locking the Energy Saver today so will try that.

Mine seems to be connected to the power cord for some reason. I always have to plug it in to wake it up from deep sleep. Then it wakes up ok. The problem isn't awful since I rarely take it with me, but it just shouldn't be happening.

Next step--appointment at the genius bar. (When I called in to tech support a couple of months ago, the tech couldn't really understand my problem, although he did suggest booting in safe mode. He sent me an email saying he had solved it, but his answer was that it was normal for a laptop to go into deep sleep after about 4 hours. Nothing about how to wake it up from deep sleep when it was unresponsive.)

Resolved! (my issue, which from reading this whole forum may or may not be the same as some people's)

EQUIPMENT: Macbook Pro 13" Mid 2012 (Non Retina), 8GB, Intel SSD, Video card Intel 4000.

OS: Maverick

PROBLEM: Computer would not turn on after shutting it down. I would press the power button and nothing would happen, no DVD noise or screen - nothing, nada, caput!

If I waited at least 20 minutes and tried again the laptop would start. Also, once started computer would work fine. I could even put it to sleep and it would wake up fine. But, It did not wake up from deep sleep (hibernation?).

SOLUTION: After trying many things cited here in the forum; using the original 4GB memory, testing with a different SSD, doing the "Repair Permissions" dance - nothing. Also tried re-installing Maverick from scratch - nothing.

So, took the dog for a walk, came back and set the resolution to "Scaled" to its highest resolution 1280x800 and voila! - darn thing seems to be working. I have tested this for more than 7 off/on cycles before posting.

Btw, this is the 2nd major problem i have had with Apple Products, the first one was with my iMac 27, mid 2011, where suddenly the screen started pixelating. That issue also turned out to be the video card nVidia 6970M and interestingly enough, the issue diminished when I set the resolution much lower. Eventually Apple finally found the issue was a bad card and did a recall. Ofcourse by then I had bought a cheaper video card.

Anyway, I love Apple computers but it is certainly not re-assuring to hit these problems.

I scheduled an appt with the genius bar for Tuesday, to see what they can find.

Happy New Year!!

/g

I have an early 2011 MBP 15. I was always having problems waking from sleep mode. I tried the fixes in the disk utilities. The disk repair crashed my hard disk. Good thing I had time machine running. I bought a new SSD and reinstalled and restored. I haven't had any wake issues since.

I changed the settings on my disk to never sleep also.

The downside of restoring from backup was that I had to buy another copy of MS office since it said I had used my serial too many times and I think I lost an authorization in itunes also.

I erased my hard drive and did a clean install of OS X and it looks it solved the problem for me. I'm using a MacBook Pro (mid 2012, non-retina).

In case you haven't heard, OSX Mavericks was released yesterday (10.22.13) for free.

If you install could you please update us if the sleep-wake issue has been fixed?

Would be helpful.

Same problem after 10.8.2 installation with retina/macbook pro. Also installed firmware update. The only way I have been able to resolve the problem is as described above--forced shutdown and then restart. I did do an SMC reset after the first instance (Saturday evening) but the problem recurred after computer was put to sleep Saturday night. One note: when I put the machine to sleep prior to the first instance of the problem, I had to choose sleep from the apple menu four times. Very smart computer did not want to go to sleep. Reminiscent of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Exactly same problem om my Macbook Air 11 inch Mid 2011. Upgraded to 10.8.2 a couple of days ago but problem only started yesterday. Has happened about 2 times, where just refuse to wake up from sleep. Interestingly when looking at Console Logs, on both occassions the last entry in the log is as follows:

Signal[274]: Error Domain=com.apple.coreWLAN.error Code=-3930 "Operation not permitted" UserInfo=0x400389500 {NSLocalizedDescription=Operation not permitted}

No idea what this means. Anyone know.

At moment, as Macbook Air is plugged into Monitor and in clamshell mode, is to set it to never go to sleep in the power preferences.

In General I have found 10.8.2 to be very buggy, have also had problems with Key Chain and ubd process creating 1000s of certificates and slowing everything down. Seriously considering rolling back 10.8.1.

At moment feel like I am living in Windows Vista World

I believe that the Take Control of Upgrading to Mountain Lion ebook from Tidbits discusses how to do a clean install that is the equivalent of the old archive and install. Catalog | Take Control

I wasn't anticipating having to do this so haven't yet read the clean install chapter.

I did not have that problem. However, when looking at the folders within the CACHE folder, just about all of them have a cache.db file. Maybe try restarting your machine then emptying the trash?

That's about the only thing I can think of.

Good luck!

As to monitoring these discussion I don't know. They certainly don't seem to chip in and give advice if they do - mind you it probably wouldn't be the engineers (who might actually be able to help) who would be monitoring them. From my interactions with apple on other issues they seem to exist something at arms reach and are pretty busy to say the least.

I am also experiencing issues on a different issue with HDMI output from a new Air and someone asked the same question (about anyone listening) in exasperation there as well....!

I suspect they are aware from other people raising the issue through support and can't respond on an individual basis. There is a bug reporting system. If everyone logs on and reports the issue hopefully it will get recognised - can't hurt surely!

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

I may try a fresh install when I can find the time - failing that - roll back back to 8.8.1!