Q: My late 2013 15" MacBook Pro Retina occasionally does not wake up when lid is opened.

There are other threads with the same kind of problem but just started off with a slightly different heading/subject line.

Its an erratic and intermittent problem it’s proving to become very difficult to pin down. If it's a software/instability issue, how do we know...What ever amount of users have a complaint, Apple should have a way of picking up on it and posting known issues that have been passed on and then informing the customers how far down the line they are with rectifying it. Unless Apple have enough complaints (what ever they deem to be worthy of to looking in to), then we will remain in the dark.... Big corporation syndrome!!!!

ncon64 wrote:

 

After the update everything was going ok ( few days or so) until now.....same old!!!!

Which model do you have?

I have a 15", rmbp with 16gb of ram and a 1 TB ssd bought in October of 2013.  I think it has to do with the pmset settings.  If you Google the problem, you'll find several articles. I have tried changing the pmset settings via Terminal as suggested in another thread on this forum.  Those settings are:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3

sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0

sudo pmset -a autopoweroffdelay 36000

sudo pmset -a standby 0

sudo pmset -a standbydelay 36000

sudo pmset -a acwake 0

This worked for awhile, but then I had the same issue of not waking after sleeping over night, so I changed the hibernatemode to 0 and the autopoweroffdelay and standbydelay to 86400, as suggested by other articles on the internet.  (You can always revert to the default settings by  resetting the smc.)  I also unchecked the powernap feature and also unchecked the put the hard drive to sleep box in the Energy Saver Preferences. (Since I have an ssd drive, I don't think the hard drive has to be put to sleep.)  I haven't had the problem for the past several days, but if it happens again, I'l probably take the computer to Apple.

13' macbook pro SSD retina late 2012.

Sandy, if that works that'd be great. However, Apple should be testing that theory...

I totally agree, ncon64! We shouldn't have to try to figure out how to not have this issue on a $3000 computer.

ncon64 wrote:

 

13' macbook pro SSD retina late 2012.

 

Sandy, if that works that'd be great. However, Apple should be testing that theory...

Hi ncon64, so with you saying your machine is a late 2012 one, can I assume that your machine wasn't having this issue prior to upgrading to OS X Mavericks?

Mine is a late 2013 so it's been like this since brand new, if yours has done it since upgrading your OS X then it's defo a Mavericks thing.

As far as I'm aware, it has been happening form the moment I purchsed my Macbook Pro - just over six months ago

ncon64 wrote:

 

As far as I'm aware, it has been happening form the moment I purchsed my Macbook Pro - just over six months ago

Hmmm then it's most likely nothing to do with OS X as I'm assuming that you have updated to Mavericks from Mountain Lion and this fault has remained unchanged.

Sounds like possibly hardware

Correct.

I can't take mine to get looked at until end of Feb beginning of March, but I'm for sure taking mine to the store as there's not enough complaints of this issue to make it something software related.

You going to take your to the store ncon64? If so, when? As I obviously want to know the result of it.

Because I can still use it as normal, I'll wait as long as I can, hoping Apple can come up with an answer. I will certainly get it back to them some time before my warrenty is ended. Also, I'm kind of trying to use myself as the patient waiting to find the cure and trying to pin down a trigger that sets off the problem.

it's just happened again....closed lid, came back about 2hrs after, opened lid and black screen...**** start button down for a few seconds, to finger off, preesed it agian and after holding it down for approx 8 secs came on.................What is it Apple!!!!????

Dude.... so you've been waiting over 6 months with this happening without calling Apple? How long has this thread been going? As soon as I can I'll be taking my MacBook in to the shop and if they don't come back with a solid 'yes it's been fixed' I be onto Apple asking for a replacement until they give me one (I'm in Spain for the next 2 months so I'm holding off till I'm back in the UK where I purchased my machine).

As far as I'm concerned, this issue was resolved with latest update 10.9.1 the 18th of December, it's now been 8 days without the problem when it was consistently hung on a black screen every morning.

I'm talking about a MBP Retina 13" late 2013 as people in this thread seem to be talking about other hardware as well.

Dev. I had a period of time without anything going wrong and then all of a sudden it started again....if anything, its happening more regulary than ever - twice yesterday and once today (just before writing this)