New Retina Macbook pro 13 Haswell system hang/unresponsive

Hello Everyone.


I have just got my new macbook pro retina 13 Haswell (October Model). This is my second day of usage and i have encountered sudden system freeze for 2 times already. The keyboard and the trackpad stops working including brigtness keys and volume control keys. i have use apple hardware test but no problem are found.



Could anyone tell me what is going on or having the same issue?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 25, 2013 5:56 AM

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Nov 16, 2013 7:21 PM in response to Pableke

Pableke wrote:


Hi Adam, could you please upload a console capture? Are you sure that there is no usb errors? When you did you purchase your macbook?


Regards.

I had a USB optical mouse in for a while. What USB errors are you referring to? I purchased my MacBook yesterday morning.

Let me ask you, what is so dangerous about the messages in the console?


"The USB device Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad (Port 5 of Hub at 0x14000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (2)"

I see this message in my console constantly. What are the dangers of this?

Nov 16, 2013 8:18 PM in response to kyawlin

Hey please do the following....to test weather it's a hardware problem..it's an automatic hardware tester function for mac itself....nd reply me...



You can use the Apple Hardware Test (AHT) application

to help determine if there’s a problem with one of the computer’s components, such as the memory or processor.


To use Apple Hardware Test: Disconnect all external devices from your computer except the power adapter. Restart your computer and hold down the D key as it starts up. When the AHT chooser screen appears, select the language for your location. Press the Return key or click the right arrow button. When the AHT main screen appears (after about 45 seconds), follow the onscreen instructions. If AHT detects a problem,

it displays an error code. Make a note of the error code before pursuing support options. If AHT doesn’t detect a hardware failure, the problem might be software related.

Nov 16, 2013 8:24 PM in response to AdamVidalis

Bully for you. Some of us have been struggling with this issue for almost two weeks now. I bought on Nov 4, had daily freezes until the update on Nov 7. Worked fine until yesterday when I had my first post update freeze. Apple HAS NOT fixed the issue for some of us and that's what this thread is about. If you don't have the problem, fine, but don't call the rest of us trolls because we do....

Nov 17, 2013 7:53 AM in response to idark77

This has been happening to me too, very annoying and for a moment I thought I lost content on a connected drive.


Closing the lid doesn't work btw. I can see that the system is working (e.g. the Dropbox spinning wheel) and ctrl+cmd+reset does something, however the system never comes back and I have to reboot.


It seems to happen only when I connect a 8Gb USB stick, which I bought 2-3 years back and works perfectly on a PC laptop. The same key works on OSX, but sometimes the system freezes.


My configuration on the two crashes I experienced so far:

* new MBP 2013, 16GB ram, 1TB SSD

* Apple bluetooth Magic mouse

* PCWorld USB hub on left USB port

* Logitech USB keyboard for PC, via Logitech USB universal connector on USB hub

* external Western Digital 1TB USB drive on right USB port

* USB stick on USB hub

* Second monitor on display port

Nov 17, 2013 10:11 PM in response to kyawlin

99% of people didn't report trackpad/keyboard freezing issue after the EFI update was released.

To be sure about the issue i suggest to reinstall Mavericks and DO NOT INSTALL Flash plug in, Java, Chrome for a while:

  1. Press cmd+r and switch on the machine
  2. Initialize (format) using disk utility your SSD
  3. Download and install Mavericks from Apple server again
  4. Repair permissions from disk utility
  5. Do not install Flash plug in, Java and Chrome for a while or other staff not fully compatible with Mavericks
  6. See if it freezes again...


This is just my suggestion to isolate the problem.

Nov 18, 2013 8:18 PM in response to davermn

Like many here, I thought the "trackpad/keyboard" freeze issue was fixed after the EFI update.

BUT NO LUCK. For me it seems that it is happening a lot less than before the EFI update, but it is still happening for sure.


It just happened to me, again. I was on a Gotomeeting conferance call, Not charging, using Chrome, also had Eclipse (Android development SDK) up, and......trackpad and keyboard froze. The Gotomeeting was working fine (I hear the call and they hear me). The screen goes dark because of inactivity; but the Gotomeeting is still working. I stayed on the call for another 30 minutes...the keyboard NEVER came back. After the far-end hangsup the Gotomeeting, I closed the lid for 5 minutes...re-opened the lid...and NOTHING. Trackpad and keybaord still frozen. I had to force a power cycle.


The ISSUE IS NOT FIXED for some of us (maybe all of us, it maybe a matter of time or a particular usecase!!!!)


I WANT A FIX ON MY NEW $2,300 Macbook Pro 13 inch computer (i7, 16 gigs of RAM)


:-(

Nov 19, 2013 6:39 AM in response to gslender

Apple Engineering called me last night after I had called in to Apple Support the day before on this issue. He said they are working on it and wanted a unit that had had a freeze after installing the update. Offered to send me a new computer in exchange for mine and I took him up on it; new one is on the way. So, they know about the problem of post update freezing and are working on it....FYI

Nov 19, 2013 10:36 AM in response to tanker177

tanker177 wrote:


Apple ... said they are working on it and ... know about the problem of post update freezing


I find tanker177's report extremely disturbing. Equipment should NOT freeze, hang, or reboot on more than an extremely intermittant basis. I converted from Windows machines and software in 2007, have spent probably $30,000 on hardware, software, and media since then, and I find this trend of Apple gear manufacturing quality getting worse and worse every year very, very upsetting. And now one of my devices (an iPad 3) regularly reboots itself 1x–3x/day since the iOS 7 upgrade.


I have been reading threads on the problems with the new rMBPs since the day it became available. I really wanted one of these machines and was completely committed to getting one, but I have a really bad taste in my mouth now after reading all the horror stories in so many different threads on so many different sites.

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