Mac wakes from sleep by itself

Hi,
I see my screen popping on for no reason staying on for 5 minuets or so then going back to sleep. Is this normal. I don't recall it doing this before. From what I understand, to get spyware or malware on the computer I need to instal it. But I could be wrong. Thanks for any help.

Hi
My Imac wakes itself from Screen Sleep? Hot corners have become increasingly unstable. Reseting PRAM has not made any difference, Apple care have said "we could try to install a fresh copy of just the installation system on a second partition".
Is there anymore advice on this before I go ahead with this.
Thanks for reading
Angus

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Hi all, for some reason my mac wakes from sleep overnight, not quite sure at which time it does this but I have found the computer awake and up and running in the morning for a few days now?
any ideas why it would wake itself up?
cheers, Robert
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98% likely one of your USB devices is waking it up. Do you have a USB hub attached or a bunch of USB devices (drives, other doodads) attached? The console tip above may help tell you which one it is

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My 4G iPod is always mounting for disk use when my Mac (10.4.8, Dual 1.8 GHz G5) wakes from sleep, even though the settings for the iPod has "enable disk use" unselected. When I launch iTunes (latest version) the iPod promptly is unmounted. I have restored factory settings, I have reinstalled the computer's OS and iTunes with it.
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UPDATE:
I have started to turn off Bluetooth at night before I put my computer to sleep. I HAVE NOT HAD THE FIREWIRE RANDOM DISMOUNT PROBLEM SINCE. I do not know if this is a freak coincidence -- but so far, so much the better for my firewire drive.
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MacBook wakes from sleep by itself

Hey!
I got a new MacBook some weeks ago. Works fine so far despite a little fact: It sometimes (randomly?) wakes from sleep (at night). Of course I usually sleep and won't notice anything. But happened 3 times by now that I woke (including last night) from the machines wake up noise (like when you open the lid). It goes back to sleep after a little while, so no real worries about that. But I find it rather strange waking up by itself. Is it possible there are any scheduled wake ups or something like that?
(My previous MacBook - which really had a lot of problems - showed a likely issue. It woke up directly after I put it to sleep. This was caused by some bluetooth problem. Well, this time the wake up issue is not that serious but I'm concerned as well. Do not want the current MacBook behave like the old one.)
I copied the relevant snippets from the logging console this morning. Close the machine at around 11pm, wake up time was around 2am last night (looked at my watch) and the log depicts, me waking up and opening the lid this morning at 9am:
Apr 27 22:41:10 localhost ntpd[14]: time reset +0.623952 s
Apr 27 22:42:57 localhost com.apple.launchd[173] (0x10c3f0.Locum[12995]): Exited: Terminated
Apr 27 22:56:59 localhost kernel[0]: hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
Apr 28 02:00:02 localhost kernel[0]: sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Apr 28 02:00:02 localhost kernel[0]: Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 2147483648, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
Apr 28 02:00:02 localhost kernel[0]: hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 4
Apr 28 02:00:02 localhost kernel[0]: hibernateallocpages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
Apr 28 02:00:02 localhost kernel[0]: WLCE_COUNTRY_CODECHANGED
Apr 28 02:00:02 localhost kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'X3'.
Apr 28 02:00:03 localhost kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64
Apr 27 22:56:59 localhost kernel[0]: System SafeSleep
Apr 28 02:00:03 localhost kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall start
Apr 28 02:00:03 localhost kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall time: 237 ms
Apr 28 02:00:03 localhost kernel[0]: pages 255427, wire 98221, act 52468, inact 34966, zf 1205, throt 0, could discard act 44853 inact 18313 purgeable 5401
Apr 28 02:00:03 localhost kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall found pageCount 186860
Apr 28 02:00:03 localhost kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen, mlget_interruptsenabled 0
Apr 28 02:00:03 localhost kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
Apr 28 02:00:04 localhost kernel[0]: writing 185715 pages
Apr 28 02:00:04 localhost kernel[0]: image1Size 208478208
Apr 28 02:00:04 localhost kernel[0]: all time: 18644 ms, comp time: 3925 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
Apr 28 02:00:04 localhost kernel[0]: image 415625728, uncompressed 760688640 (185715), compressed 410279200 (53%), sum1 114be589, sum2 9824c410
Apr 28 02:00:04 localhost kernel[0]: hibernatewriteimage done(0)
Apr 28 02:00:04 localhost kernel[0]: sleep
Apr 28 02:00:04 Van1lla kernel[0]: System Wake
Apr 28 02:00:04 Van1lla kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
Apr 28 02:00:04 Van1lla configd[34]: setting hostname to "Van1lla.local"
Apr 28 02:00:07 Van1lla kernel[0]: hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
Apr 28 02:00:07 Van1lla kernel[0]: sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Apr 28 02:00:07 Van1lla kernel[0]: Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 2147483648, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
Apr 28 02:00:07 Van1lla kernel[0]: hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 4
Apr 28 02:00:07 Van1lla kernel[0]: hibernateallocpages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
Apr 28 09:00:01 Van1lla com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.newsyslog): Throttling respawn: Will start in 4 seconds
Apr 28 02:00:07 Van1lla kernel[0]: System SafeSleep
Apr 28 09:00:02 Van1lla kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall start
Apr 28 09:00:02 Van1lla kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall time: 236 ms
Any explanations, help or suggestions regarding my problem? Do I need to be concerned? (Can not really return the MacBook to Apple as I'm writing my master thesis at the moment..) Or is that normal behaviour? Let me know if you need more details about the machine or this post ended up in the wrong category.
Thanks for your help and best regards!
--Markus

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I have a 20" iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo) and an issue appears to have started after the recent software update (not sure if this is the culprit).
My iMac wakes unexpectedly after being at sleep (sometimes after 10 mins sometimes a bit longer). I have NO bluetooth devices attached (and bluetooth is off anyway) and I do not allow bluetooth devices to wake the computer.
I also have the "Wake for Ethernet..." unchecked. I have also tried to trash the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist file and rebooted. And also have run Onyx to fix permissions and run the maintenance scripts.
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Steve,
Okay more advice. If you go to: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1849881&#1849881
you can read the advice suggested but this one looked really helpful posted by Dale Welsshaar:
This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
First, read things in Apple doc.#25801 on sleep settings.
USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.
If you've set your Mac to recieve faxes, it may not be able to sleep. It might also have a damaged preferences file.
If you use your Mac for faxing, open System Preferences. click Print & Fax, click the Faxing tab, and uncheck the Recieve Faxes On This Computer box.
If that does'nt work or you've never faxed on your Mac, go to Finder/Hard Drive /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and com..apple.AutoWake.plist files (if your Mac asks, type your admin. password).
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Hope this helps!
P.S. One member here reported this (Michael Gleason);
"I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"
Dave Hamilton provided this link, xlr8yourmac.com, to a member, which addresses failure of deep sleep with some users that updated and added new FireWire and USB cards.
Cheers!
DALE
Hopefully this will help you out even more,
S.

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I have a 2009 Mac Pro and it currently has Lion on it (10.7.4), but the problem I am about to explain started when the machine was running Snow Leopard, so it doesn't appear to be an OS-specific issue.
I do not currently use Time Machine, I use Carbon Copy Cloner and some online backup solutions to handle backups. I did use Time Machine for a short time on this machine just after it was introduced, but I didn't end up using it for long and the external drive I used for the backups is no longer in service.
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I've tried zapping the PRAM, getting rid of the Time Machine preferences and even logging into a new, unused user account and testing it from there and the problem continues. This is really starting to annoy me. I wouldn't mind having TM on, but having to click through the warning every time my Mac wakes from sleep is frustrating.
I don't want to have to buy a new external hard drive and let TM backup to the drive because, as I said, I've got my backup solutions handled already and I'm not willing to put yet more money to use a feature I don't need right now.
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On my machine (FW 800), 10.4.7 caused: machine to slow perceptably after wake from sleep. Activity Monitor tells me kernel_task is consuming hundreds of times it's normal CPU cycles.
I installed a FRESH 10.4. Imported my files and folders. Upgraded all the Apple software EXCEPT 10.4.7 combo updater. The partition worked fine, before and after sleep. Upgraded using the 10.4.7 combo updates.
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