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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Dec 12, 2013 12:07 PM in response to rainyday9360

Hi


I'm watching this thread since the start. I can conclude that most people who faced the issue had their first freeze in 3 days. My machine is absolutely stable - no freezes yet. Software update tells me that the efi update 1.3 for the 13'' (the 'fix') is not supported on my system. This actualy means it's installed or I haven't triggered the problem during use. IMHO all the 13-inch have the problem and this is software related. This will be fixed with further mavericks update. Better watch image retention.

Dec 14, 2013 2:59 AM in response to passwd

I have a MacBook Pro 13" Retina since mid October.

I got the keyboard/trackpad freeeze four or five times in the first ten days of use.

I've installed the EFI 1.3 update the day it was released, and since then I haven't see the problem anymore.


I use the MBP at work, so the keyboard and trackpad are almost never "idle", except at lunch time or when I connect the notebook to an external drive to perform Time Machine backups during the night.


So, after the initial days of pain, the MBP is working perfectly.

Dec 14, 2013 7:50 PM in response to kyawlin

for what it's worth (and because this thread is still going, holy moly) I returned my 13 inch Haswell macbook pro with retina that was having the issue and got a replacement. I was having other issues with the first one (directories not loading, long boot time, not being able to save files). I have not experienced any issues whatsoever with the replacement.

Dec 15, 2013 4:47 AM in response to nej_simon

Anyway, I just made a clean reinstall of Mavericks. I hope the problems are gone now but I doubt it. Seriously, mavericks is the most buggy OS I've used since Windows Vista.


Before reinstalling I had various problem.

* This freeze issue was one.

* Since a few days it also wouldn't reconnect to save wifi networks so I had to choose the network again after sleep.

* Bootcamp wouldn't resize my har drive back into one partition saying that the two partitions wasn't created by bootamp (actually they where) and Disk utility would simply hang when I tried to do it manually.

* Multitouch would stop working at times so i wasn't able to scroll or zoom. When that happened a left or right swipe in safari would hang the current tab.


And this is on a computer that's ony about a month old! So I had enough today and just wiped the drive clean and reinstalled. At least everything seems to work so far.

Dec 15, 2013 4:52 AM in response to nej_simon

I installed the firmware update for killing off this freezeup issue on first-bootup of my late 2013 rMBP 13" on the 21st of November, then 13 days later I experienced 2 keyboard and trackpad freezeups within minutes of each other, since then I've not experienced any more, but with having those 2 occurrences means that in my mind the bug is not completely fixed although nowhere near as bad as it was prior to the firmware update based on the number of posts on this thread when Apple first released them at the end of October.


My main issue with my rMBP now is that sometimes when I put it to sleep for a long time it won't wake up and I have to do a hard-shutdown by holding the power button down for 10 seconds.

Dec 15, 2013 7:39 AM in response to Supreem

Are you people who installed the update fix still have the system log error ?

I don't have any freeze but i still have tons of "

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

as we saw so many poeple have also. Try check your system.log please. I need to know if this error still shows in the log after the firmware. I will indeed have my MBRr 13 replaced if no one else have this error stil showing.

I just bought my MBPr 13" 2 days ago and i had to install the firmware my self.


Thanks

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