Surface 3 rapid battery drain

[xTmX Korrupt]

I been having issues with my Surface 3 battery draining rapidly. I am currently using Windows 10 and I had no issues with Windows 8.1. I put it to sleep it wakes back up, or If I Shut it down it turns back on and just continues to drain the battery. I was at 100% off the charger. I went to use it after 7 or so hours off the charger and it is at 10%. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[etphoto]

Go to power settings and check to see if you have your WiFi activated while your surface is sleeping. If so, turn that off. Should help a lot.

 

[michail71]

Also, do you have a Surface 3 or Surface Pro 3? I've seen those issues about waking up mentioned on the Pro 3.

 

[xTmX Korrupt]

Running surface 3, and I did turn off Wi-Fi while sleeping. I came across another topic, maybe I can try plane mode.

 

[Dewg]

Make sure you don't have "Hey Cortana" turned on - that will prevent the system from sleeping properly.

 

[michail71]

Doesn't impact the phone to any appreciable degree so hopefully a Surface will be able handle this.

 

[Dewg]

Doesn't impact the phone to any appreciable degree so hopefully a Surface will be able handle this.

True - but for some reason the Surface sees it as an open audio stream. With Hey Cortana turned on, open an Admin Command Prompt and type: powercfg -requests

On my S3 and SP3, I get the Realtek audio stream open, which typically prevents the system from going into deep sleep.

 

[FearL0rd]

My surface is running better after I remove the Skype desktop. Even the fan is slower
We missed the old metro Skype. Microsoft needs to fix this.