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MBA mid-2013 wakes from sleep every minute on Mavericks

After upgrading to Mavericks my MBA mid-2013 constantly wakes up from sleep every minute during the night draining battery to 0%.I did syslog | grep -i "Wake reason" and the result is "?" for each logged wake event. There are few more reports on this all over the Internet with slight variations. This happens

while on battery and I did try SMC reset. Any tips? It's gettig quite frustrating. User uploaded file

MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 30, 2013 6:03 AM

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Posted on Oct 30, 2013 1:01 PM

I'm suffering from the same thing - MBA 2013, wakes every 1 minute and drains the battery overnight. Very odd. Mountain Lion didn't do this! 😟


pmset -g log

Also produced a repeated set of info, every ~1 minute, the following is repeated. Anyone any thoughts? I've reset PRAM and SMC...


30/10/2013 10:51:24 GMT DarkWake DarkWake [CDN] : Using BATT (Charge:0%) 22 secs

30/10/2013 10:51:24 GMT HibernateStats hibmode=3 standbydelay=10800 rd=1548 ms

30/10/2013 10:51:24 GMT SlowResponse Kernel: Response from powerd is slow (powercaps:0x0) 28209 ms

30/10/2013 10:51:29 GMT Assertions PID 16(powerd) Released InternalPreventSleep "PM configd - Wait for Device enumeration" 00:00:05 id:0xe00002767 [System: PushSrvc kCPU]

30/10/2013 10:51:46 GMT Sleep Maintenance Sleep: Using BATT (Charge:0%) 51 secs

30/10/2013 10:51:48 GMT SlowResponse PMConnection: Response from com.apple.apsd is slow (powercaps:0x0) 1992 ms

30/10/2013 10:52:14 GMT Timedout PMConnection: Response from CMacPowerHelper timed out (powercaps:0x0) 28150 ms

30/10/2013 10:52:14 GMT Timedout PMConnection: Response from CMacPowerHelper timed out (powercaps:0x0) 28151 ms

30/10/2013 10:52:14 GMT WakeRequests Clients requested wake events: None

30/10/2013 10:52:37 GMT Assertions PID 16(powerd) Created InternalPreventSleep "PM configd - Wait for Device enumeration" 00:00:00 id:0xe00002779 [System: No Assertions]

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Nov 17, 2013 7:32 AM in response to VAXMaster95

(strangled cry of anguish in the background...)


Guess what, 24 hours later, and... yes, my MBA slept properly... twice... and then decided it just loved waking up every 1 minute. Argh!


Still got a call open with Apple. I'll keep chasing and report back if/when I get anything that lasts longer than a few hours 😠


This is getting quite ridiculous...

Nov 19, 2013 12:29 PM in response to jasonlancaster

...back again...


Latest news on trying to fix this: I realised I couldn't boot into safe mode (odd, it kept returning me to the login screen) - realised this could be a problem with an encrypted drive (i.e. FileVault).


So... I reset FireVault to decrypt the drive - succeeded, rebooted, all working. Tried safe mode... and... the no-entry sign was eventually displayed. Rebooted outside of safe mode - still no-entry sign! I tried recovery mode, and noticed that something screwed up & marked the unencrypted volume as encrypted... boom.


Recovery mode didn't help - disk utility couldn't unlock, so eventually had to resort to the terminal and use the discutil command line (helped via https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3348646). Finally nuked the disc completely, full re-install of Mavericks and then recovered via TimeMachine.


And... the 1 second wake-up is still there!!!


But disappears in safe mode (after minimal testing) - so maybe something is causing this due to installed software... anyone else got the problem in safe mode? I'll look around and see if I can find the culprit in the meantime...

Nov 19, 2013 1:19 PM in response to jasonlancaster

Hi, sure - good idea, see if we can find some simularities.


I've got:

  1. GoogleDrive
  2. DropBox
  3. Time machine
  4. Comodo anti-virus (was running Avast, but same behaviour)
  5. Mail
  6. Safari
  7. Terminal
  8. Finder...


Everything else is not in use when I leave the machine to sleep... as far as I can tell... and I've dutifully applied any update c/o Apple...


Alas it looks like we're not running anything in common (argh).

Nov 21, 2013 1:43 PM in response to rcolonescu

I can confirm this issue for both haswell rMBP late 2013 (i5, 8gb, 256hdd) and haswell MBAir 2013 (i5, 8gb, 256hdd) both running mavericks. Software I use and usually don't close when I'm done working:


1. Google Drive

2. Avast free antivirus

3. Time Machine

4. Google Chrome

5. Mozilla Tunderbird

6. Terminal

7. Finder ...


I also use bluetooth mouse (magic mouse) - turning off bluetooth for the night did not help ... neither did turning off wireless.


whatever I have tried i could not get it to sleep properly ... after standbydelay is done (time in seconds), both machines start to wake every minute and drain the battery ... both machines are running fresh installation of mavericks and all current updates. It is clearly a mavericks issue and Apple should fix this as soon as possible there are more and more posts on different forums about this issue and there is no fix for it. The best that could be done for now is to set standbydelay to some insane value (1 week = 604800 seconds) with pmset;


sudo pmset -b standbydelay 604800


this will delay hibernate for a week and prevent 1minute wakeups ... still drains more battery than it should but it will not discharge your battery completely overnight. Just a few percents.


So ... we should all start annoying Apple about this until they acknowledge the problem and promise us they will fix it. It is a mavericks issue! Needs to be fixed! Nothing is wrong with hardware in our macbooks.



XES

Nov 22, 2013 5:36 AM in response to rcolonescu

I can say that I'm experiencing the exact same issue with my rMBP late 2013 (i5-2.6, 8gb, 512hdd).


I am running Alfred2, f.lux, Bettersnaptool and close pretty much everything else.


I'm hopeful that there's an official fix from Apple soon. This is my first venture back into the MacOS X ecosystem since a PowerBook G4 on 10.2 many years ago... I love everything about my Mac but I really want it to work right.

MBA mid-2013 wakes from sleep every minute on Mavericks

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