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Now if Windows could just make my laptop not use half the battery overnight with the lid closed. (This is frustrating me to the point that I am on the verge of

Now if Windows could just make my laptop not use half the battery overnight with the lid closed. (This is frustrating me to the point that I am on the verge of getting a macbook for the first time now even though my laptop is otherwise great and only a year old, so it's good (for my pocketbook anyway) to know the other side has its own issues).

com2kid 5y ago
> Now if Windows could just make my laptop not use half the battery overnight with the lid closed. Eh I have a Macbook and various apps will cause the laptop to not go to sleep. Web browsers are the largest offenders in my experience. I've often enough came into my office to a laptop that was running at 100% CPU all night.
handrous 5y ago
I don't get how idle power use is still so bad on competing products. I understand Android, at least, has improved somewhat, but it spent years being laughably bad compared to iOS, even on tablet hardware with no cell radio to worry about. Dead after three days in a drawer, while the iPad that'd been in there for three weeks still had plenty of charge left. WTF.
Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
Try looking into Power Profile and Power Management setting, likely you are on the high performance profile or the profile was set incorrectly. Also look into the device manager and change the power setting for each devices, some device can turn on the computer and keep it awake through out the night. Even apps (I managed to find out why my computer keep awaking up in the middle of the night because of the particular app that have no reason to use the waketimer function).
burnte 5y ago
Check your manufacturer's website for updates and you rpower scheme settings. I have a early-2021 Dell XPS 13 (the 9310) and I can close it, forget it in my bag for two weeks, open it and it has 94% battery left because it auto-hibernated.
- daxfohl 5y ago
  It's been a while but I think I had that working too, except wifi would be totally dorked up after waking. I'd have to manually disconnect and reconnect each time (xps 9700). That was more annoying than being dead 1/3 of the time, so I left it like this. Are you experiencing similar? That said, yeah I'll check if there are updates I'm missing.
  - daxfohl 5y ago
    FWIW I disabled "Allow network connectivity during connected-standby" in group policy and it seems to be better (fingers-crossed). Apparently I'd set that to "enabled" last year when trying to deal with the wifi flakiness after wakeup. However setting it to disabled now, I am not getting the flakiness so far, so maybe a software update fixed that problem. (Again, fingers crossed).
    - daxfohl 5y ago
      Two days and so far it's worked. Drops 1% power overnight (compared to 8% per hour pre-change), and connects straight back to wifi upon wakeup. Note hibernation is still disabled. This is just sleep. And I didn't hack anything AFAIK to disable the connected-standby that Dell/Windows forces. So, pretty happy! (Of course, was looking forward to trying out a Mac, but oh well). The following sleep states are available on this system: Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) Network Disconnected The following sleep states are not available on this system: Standby (S1) The system firmware does not support this standby state. This standby state is disabled when S0 low power idle is supported. Standby (S2) The system firmware does not support this standby state. This standby state is disabled when S0 low power idle is supported. Standby (S3) This standby state is disabled when S0 low power idle is supported. Hibernate Hibernation has not been enabled. Hybrid Sleep Standby (S3) is not available. Hibernation is not available. The hypervisor does not support this standby state. Fast Startup Hibernation is not available. Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) Network Connected Connectivity in standby is disabled by policy.

com2kid 5y ago

> Now if Windows could just make my laptop not use half the battery overnight with the lid closed. Eh I have a Macbook and various apps will cause the laptop to not go to sleep. Web browsers are the largest offenders in my experience. I've often enough came into my office to a laptop that was running at 100% CPU all night.

handrous 5y ago

I don't get how idle power use is still so bad on competing products. I understand Android, at least, has improved somewhat, but it spent years being laughably bad compared to iOS, even on tablet hardware with no cell radio to worry about. Dead after three days in a drawer, while the iPad that'd been in there for three weeks still had plenty of charge left. WTF.

Isthatablackgsd 5y ago

Try looking into Power Profile and Power Management setting, likely you are on the high performance profile or the profile was set incorrectly. Also look into the device manager and change the power setting for each devices, some device can turn on the computer and keep it awake through out the night. Even apps (I managed to find out why my computer keep awaking up in the middle of the night because of the particular app that have no reason to use the waketimer function).

burnte 5y ago

Check your manufacturer's website for updates and you rpower scheme settings. I have a early-2021 Dell XPS 13 (the 9310) and I can close it, forget it in my bag for two weeks, open it and it has 94% battery left because it auto-hibernated.

daxfohl 5y ago
It's been a while but I think I had that working too, except wifi would be totally dorked up after waking. I'd have to manually disconnect and reconnect each time (xps 9700). That was more annoying than being dead 1/3 of the time, so I left it like this. Are you experiencing similar? That said, yeah I'll check if there are updates I'm missing.
- daxfohl 5y ago
  FWIW I disabled "Allow network connectivity during connected-standby" in group policy and it seems to be better (fingers-crossed). Apparently I'd set that to "enabled" last year when trying to deal with the wifi flakiness after wakeup. However setting it to disabled now, I am not getting the flakiness so far, so maybe a software update fixed that problem. (Again, fingers crossed).
  - daxfohl 5y ago
    Two days and so far it's worked. Drops 1% power overnight (compared to 8% per hour pre-change), and connects straight back to wifi upon wakeup. Note hibernation is still disabled. This is just sleep. And I didn't hack anything AFAIK to disable the connected-standby that Dell/Windows forces. So, pretty happy! (Of course, was looking forward to trying out a Mac, but oh well). The following sleep states are available on this system: Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) Network Disconnected The following sleep states are not available on this system: Standby (S1) The system firmware does not support this standby state. This standby state is disabled when S0 low power idle is supported. Standby (S2) The system firmware does not support this standby state. This standby state is disabled when S0 low power idle is supported. Standby (S3) This standby state is disabled when S0 low power idle is supported. Hibernate Hibernation has not been enabled. Hybrid Sleep Standby (S3) is not available. Hibernation is not available. The hypervisor does not support this standby state. Fast Startup Hibernation is not available. Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) Network Connected Connectivity in standby is disabled by policy.