Sleep Study - Is this Normal

[spasell]

When I shut keyboard cover I was at 32%...

I haven't opened it for 2 days straight but lost 24% in 48 hours with the system doing nothing? How in the hell can this happen? And with the attached screenshot you can see nothing is happening really that shows up taking up CPU activity in the background.

Any ideas? Is this normal? I also made a change in setting to shut the wifi off when the system is hibernating to try and conserve more battery so not sure if I messed it up more?

 

[realwarder]

In Connected Standby it is normal to use power. The PC is really periodically running and so uses power. I believe the default is to Hibernate (i.e. switch off) after a few hours of Connected Standby so no power is then used.

Charge nightly or enable Hibernate.

 

[spasell]

In Connected Standby it is normal to use power. The PC is really periodically running and so uses power. I believe the default is to Hibernate (i.e. switch off) after a few hours of Connected Standby so no power is then used.

Charge nightly or enable Hibernate.

The point is simple. Prior to Windows 10 I would lose 5% on a WEEKEND if I wasn't using it. Now? This is ridiculous.

I had it at 100% last night. Closed it down by closing the keyboard cover around 8:30pm. I turn it on just now and lose 11%? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? It's showing that it's not really doing anything and yet, you can see from the screen shot from just last night it's in the red so something is happening and not getting recorded.

I'm sick and tired of the excuses of "well it's a new release so need to get the bugs out.". NO..that's what all the testing is for. I mean, give me a break. These half baked releases are pathetic. I'm tired of having to pull out the SD card or just shutting it down completely vs what they CLAIM is a feature and benefit.

Sorry, I've put up with a lot and supported this device from the 1st time it came out. But with the iPad Pro coming out or being talked about this week, if it has a stylus and removable keyboard, I'm gone.

 

[realwarder]

You don't sound a happy chappie. You should still try and be nice to people though

Someone posted that they thought it was the Wi-Fi driver the other day. You could try and confirm that by turning off Wi-Fi before sleeping and seeing if that makes a difference. Kind of defeats the whole point of Connected Standby though, I get that.

Today is patch Tuesday so perhaps some new fixes will appear and make your day.

Did Windows pop up and offer to start your Windows 10 upgrade or did you force the upgrade to start? I know Microsoft are delaying some devices due to known issues and I'm curious if you jumped the gun and some of this pain is self-inflicted.

 

[Tsang Fai]

I haven't opened it for 2 days straight but lost 24% in 48 hours with the system doing nothing? How in the hell can this happen? And with the attached screenshot you can see nothing is happening really that shows up taking up CPU activity in the background.

So on average the loss is only 0.5%/hour right? Not bad!

Surely the energy conservation is not as good as iPad but 0.5%/hour loss rate is very satisfactory to me.

Based on my experience, when the battery is low (in your case 32%), it tends to drain up faster. This phenomenon is quite common in other tablets/smartphones.

What concerns me is the "quality" of sleep - sometimes my Surface Pro 3 takes unusually long time to wake up from sleep (>2 minutes, and sometimes >5 minutes which I assume it will never wake up). I think it has improved compared with laptops 5 years ago. But it can still be better.