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For what its worth Microsoft has struggled with power management on mobile skylake as well - https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/62772/microsoft-w

by dman 11y ago

For what its worth Microsoft has struggled with power management on mobile skylake as well - https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/62772/microsoft-will-not-fix-power-management-issues-with-new-surface-devices-until-next-year https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/62772/micr... . There have been multiple firmware upgrades but if you look at /r/surface on reddit multiple people (myself including) still have issues with power management and sleep on the skylake surface pro 4's.

rorosaurus 11y ago
Problems with wake? I see those sometimes. I haven't seen the rapid battery drain in sleep people talk about (yet). Still, I'm nearly convinced to return my SP4 device due to frustration from these issues.
- dman 11y ago
  I have the battery drain during sleep problem.
  - voltagex_ 11y ago
    Argh, I probably have this with an XPS 9350 - I wonder if Dell will patch it.
- uto 11y ago
  Interesting. Could you tell which model you have? I have had very few problems in general on my SP4 i7-16GB model. I've had to reset the device maybe once or twice in the last ~4 months.
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lmm 11y ago
Does that affect the Surface Book too? I just got an i7 Surface Book.
- dman 11y ago
  You should check on the surface forums (either reddit or microsoft forums) with users who have the same configuration as you do.
StillBored 11y ago
It is nice when your devices appears to always be on. But lets be real, my windows tablet isn't a phone. So, I disabled InstantGo/Conected Standby on my dell tablet, and the battery now runs for days. I charge it once a week or so, unless I start playing games on it (in which case the battery only lasts for something like ~3/4 hours). That device gets pretty heavy use for book reading/ netflix/ web surfing. The downside is that the power button is stupidly placed next to the volume buttons. So I frequently hit it instead of the volume button and that results in a ~5-10 second hibernate/resume sequence. I've been considering how hard it would be to physically cut the lead to it and the useless "window button" and PtP solder the windows button as the power button. (I haven't found any software solutions for reversing them).
- duncans 11y ago
  Isn't there an option in Control Panel "Change what happens when I press the power button"?
  - StillBored 11y ago
    The button does what I want. I just want it somewhere that is tactilely (is that a word?) different than the volume buttons. I have the same problem with kindles, I hit the power button instead of the volume buttons. This is one of the things that apple got right.
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by dman 11y ago

rorosaurus 11y ago

Problems with wake? I see those sometimes. I haven't seen the rapid battery drain in sleep people talk about (yet). Still, I'm nearly convinced to return my SP4 device due to frustration from these issues.

dman 11y ago
I have the battery drain during sleep problem.
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  Argh, I probably have this with an XPS 9350 - I wonder if Dell will patch it.
uto 11y ago
Interesting. Could you tell which model you have? I have had very few problems in general on my SP4 i7-16GB model. I've had to reset the device maybe once or twice in the last ~4 months.

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lmm 11y ago

Does that affect the Surface Book too? I just got an i7 Surface Book.

dman 11y ago
You should check on the surface forums (either reddit or microsoft forums) with users who have the same configuration as you do.

StillBored 11y ago

It is nice when your devices appears to always be on. But lets be real, my windows tablet isn't a phone. So, I disabled InstantGo/Conected Standby on my dell tablet, and the battery now runs for days. I charge it once a week or so, unless I start playing games on it (in which case the battery only lasts for something like ~3/4 hours). That device gets pretty heavy use for book reading/ netflix/ web surfing. The downside is that the power button is stupidly placed next to the volume buttons. So I frequently hit it instead of the volume button and that results in a ~5-10 second hibernate/resume sequence. I've been considering how hard it would be to physically cut the lead to it and the useless "window button" and PtP solder the windows button as the power button. (I haven't found any software solutions for reversing them).

duncans 11y ago
Isn't there an option in Control Panel "Change what happens when I press the power button"?
- StillBored 11y ago
  The button does what I want. I just want it somewhere that is tactilely (is that a word?) different than the volume buttons. I have the same problem with kindles, I hit the power button instead of the volume buttons. This is one of the things that apple got right.
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