Screen flashes when waking up from sleep, Macbook Pro Retina 13" early 2013

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Screen flashes when waking up from sleep, Macbook Pro Retina 13" early 2013

Hey guys,

I have an issue with the wake up procedure on my new Macbook Pro Retina 13". This is how it looks: http://youtu.be/pBK8vRiVdX4

When my computer has been in sleep mode for a longer time (approximately 1-3 hours) it does this strange thing when I open the lid. It is black for a time and suddenly there is a blue flashing screen before it goes to the desktop. This process is about 10 seconds.

Does anyone know if there is a solution for this? Have you had the same problem? I called Apple support this morning and he told me to reset SMC and clear the PRAM, but the issue is still there.

Please let me know if you know something about this.

Kindly,

Mikael

MACBOOK PRO (RETINA, 13-INCH,EARLY 2013), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Apr 2, 2013 6:51 AM

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Answer 1

dtle0002

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May 26, 2017 9:39 AM in response to Arnold1125

Hi arnold1125, i know I'm a few years late, but i recently experience this problem. I think it has to do with me connecting my mac to the projector at work and scaling the screen. can you show me now to set it as native resolution?

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Apr 6, 2013 2:05 PM in response to rosmik

This problem occurs on my MacBook Pro 13" as well. I was hoping the 10.8.3 update would fix the issue, but no avail. For those who may be curious, I have not altered the OS in any malignant way, but I do have Win 7 running on a bootcamp partition.

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RSully

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Apr 16, 2013 4:21 AM in response to silverbeast

This has been happening to my Retina Macbook Pro 15" for some time now too. More often than not I find myself shutting down, resetting the SMC and booting it - only to find the same issue repeat itself after another day or two.

Edit: I wonder if it is related to this http://portal2portal.blogspot.com/2013/02/macbook-pro-with-retina-display.html

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rosmik Author

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Apr 16, 2013 5:57 AM in response to rosmik

I have been in contact with Apple support and I also showed them the video. They thought it was some hardware problem but they didn't know what so they sent me a new machine.

It might be related to the standby mode, but I don't know if that would stop the flashing.

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Jul 16, 2013 8:08 AM in response to rosmik

i had the same problem too and i think i could isolate its cause. I tried a few things on my 13 inch retina macbook pro like switching off functions like ''put hard disk to sleep when possible'' but this wasnt a solution to the problem... after alot of playing around with my macbook, i realised that this flashing problem only occured when my macbook was scaled up to any resolution other than the native resolution... when i went back to the native resolution, the flashing stopped and my macbook started almost instantaneously after opening the screen... you should try it out... and tell me what you think...

think it is pretty annoying that we get this issue when scaled up to some other resolution and wish there is a solution somewhere online to solve this... but for now, i think it is quite an annoying bug but still not something i cant live with...

tell me what think about it:)

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Jul 16, 2013 8:44 AM in response to rosmik

update: this post solved it all for me...

http://www.ewal.net/2012/09/09/slow-wake-for-macbook-pro-retina/

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