MBP C2D WONT SLEEP AUTOMATICALLY!

my 15 mbp c2d will go to sleep when I close the lid, and will sleep if i command it to, but it will not sleep when it is scheduled to after my desired time. the screen goes black but the indicator light is solid, it isnt "breathing" like it is supposed to, and the screen just turns back on by touching the mouse pad..
Any suggestions?

actually, I think I figured it out..
I had the desktop pic changing every minute, which kept it awake... strange... I wonder if apple is going to fix this in the future.

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This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
Here is Apple's KB article HT1776 with their tips.
Mine follow;
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 receive 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 Receive Faxes On This Computer box.
If that doesn't 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).
If the latter file isn't present in the folder, go to user name(probably your name)/Library/Preferences, delete the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file, and reboot your Mac.
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 card.
Also, here is Apple KB article TA2469 about PCI cards and sleep.
tomhorvat adds this; After few days of messing around I found out that I had desktop background (wallpaper) set to change every 1 minute.
After unchecking "Change picture..." in system preferences (under Desktop/Screen saver), my powerbook went to sleep all by itself.
Tristan Currier noticed this; "I have a Canon printer(shared) and my imac would not sleep. I opened up printer/fax in system prefs and noticed it said the printer was in use when it was off. Opened up the printer queue and noticed about 7 pending documents. Deleted them all and now it sleeps.
Check the printer queue!"
Allan Jones says "sometimes there is Network activity: launch System Preferences > Energy Saver > "Options" tab and uncheck "Wake for Ethernet network administrator access."
Good Luck!  DALE

MacBook Pro never sleeps automaticly.

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After using my new Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.33 for a few days, randomly after opening the lid while Macbook has been sleeping the display will not come on, no illumination whatsoever. The hard drive is spinning.
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MBP 17" Won't sleep automatically by closing display

My MBP doesn't go to sleep when the lid closes-
I noticed it last night when I didn't plug it in and everything drained the battery even though I closed the lid. I have checked my energy savings and they all work fine-everything works as it should when it's open.
When I close the lid, though, it won't go to sleep!
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Mgkwho-
I realize you stated that you checked your energy settings, but I had this same trouble.
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Hi, I would like to find out the reason why my MBP does not go automatically in sleep mode.
Could you help me?
Thanks

I read the article, have done most of the suggested actions, but my mac still doesnt go in sleep if I let it open after the set time go over (1 min). The same problem I have if I switch to save mode. What now?

MacBook no longer goes to sleep automatically

I asked the question in the Mac Pro forum by mistake.. Hopefully I can get some input here?
My MacBook no longer goes to sleep automatically after the 'Computer Sleep' period has elapsed and without me using it. I can however make the MacBook go to sleep by using a sleep command from the menu or the one on the logon screen, as well ask closing the lid.
I have tried hard to find out what the problem is, but to no avail
1. I have reset the NVRam
2. I have reset the SMC
3. I have deleted the sleepimage cache
A. I have turned off 'Wake for Network Access'
B. I have a Magic Mouse, but have turned off 'allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer.
My MacBook won't sleep even if I close all programs beforehand.
These are the products that I have an start up:
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skype
No one else uses my MacBook
I don't have any sharing services enabled that I am aware of. In any case no one would be accessing my MacBook from any other networked machine.
Time Machine is enabled and writes to a Netgear NV+
I have a similar problem with my Mac Mini. Can anyone help me analyse what is happening?
Thanks for your help

Hi there, It's a very common problem. Some people seem to have solved the problem by checking Activity Monitor to see if there are any messages that may help identify if a piece of software is preventing the system from entering a sleep state. I did this and realised my external HD software was preventing the system from sleeping. Now my MBP 15" i5 predictably sleeps and my battery life is extended.
There is a lot of good advice here:--->>
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2416586&tstart=165
Hope this helps.

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Closing the lid works, selecting “sleep” from the Apple menu works. The only way to put my MBP to sleep automatically is currently PleaseSleep, which works fine.
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AC Power        -1*
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panicrestart   157680000
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Assertion status system-wide:
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   CPUBoundAssertion                       0
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Kernel Assertions: 0x0004
* Kernel Assertion ID = 500
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   Modified At = 25.12.11 02:46:14 MEZ
   Owner ID = 0xffffff800b664000
   Level = 255
   Assertions Set = None (4)
* Kernel Assertion ID = 501
   Created At = 01.01.70 01:03:21 MEZ
   Modified At = 01.01.70 01:00:00 MEZ
   Owner ID = 0xffffff800b674000
   Level = 0
   Assertions Set = None (4)
* Kernel Assertion ID = 502
   Created At = 01.01.70 01:05:31 MEZ
   Modified At = 25.12.11 02:38:13 MEZ
   Owner ID = 0xffffff800b704200
   Level = 0
   Assertions Set = None (32)
Any ideas? I tried resetting the SMC, to no avail. Thanks in advance!

here you go -- and thanks again.
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ws.agile.1PasswordAgent
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Quartz Composer.webplugin
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iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
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com.google.keystone.agent.plist
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com.apple.aelwriter.plist
com.apple.remotepairtool.plist
com.barebones.authd.plist
com.barebones.textwrangler.plist
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Nokia_5230_isync_plugin_2v0.phoneplugin
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Flash Player.prefPane
Flip4Mac WMV.prefPane
Growl.prefPane
Perian.prefPane
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools:
com.barebones.authd
com.barebones.textwrangler
/Library/QuickLook:
iWork.qlgenerator
/Library/QuickTime:
AC3MovieImport.component
AppleIntermediateCodec.component
AppleMPEG2Codec.component
Flip4Mac WMV Advanced.component
Flip4Mac WMV Export.component
Flip4Mac WMV Import.component
Google Camera Adapter 0.component
Google Camera Adapter 1.component
Perian.component
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/Library/StartupItems:
Library/Address Book Plug-Ins:
.DS_Store
AdiumAddressBookAction_AIM.scpt
AdiumAddressBookAction_ICQ.scpt
AdiumAddressBookAction_Jabber.scpt
AdiumAddressBookAction_MSN.scpt
AdiumAddressBookAction_SMS.scpt
AdiumAddressBookAction_Yahoo.scpt
SkypeABDialer.bundle
SkypeABSMS.bundle
Library/Input Methods:
.localized
Library/Internet Plug-Ins:
.DS_Store
Picasa.plugin
Library/LaunchAgents:
com.apple.AddressBook.ScheduledSync.PHXCardDAVSource.FA1728C5-B917-44F7-90CD-921 9143D5B9B.plist
com.apple.FolderActions.enabled.plist
com.apple.FolderActions.folders.plist
com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist
ws.agile.1PasswordAgent.plist
Library/PreferencePanes:
.DS_Store
Hazel.prefPane
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TextExpander Addition.osax
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Combine PDF pages.workflow
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17" MBP C2D Arrived and Busted!

After 34 days of waiting and Apple messing me about my 17" MBP C2D finally arrives! However, it doesn't work!
During the initial setup stages once booting the MBP for the first time, it asks for which keyboard layout I wish to use. Upon selecting any of the languages, the computer screen goes black and the kernal panic screen comes up telling me to turn off my computer.
It's no surprise to me though...
In total, over 3 years I have spent £12,500 on Apple Computers and so far I have never received a fully functional computer first time without having to send it for repair.
First it was a 1.25GHz Al PowerBook G4 which I had to send back 3 times before I finally got a functional computer.
Then it was a PowerMac G5 which went to sleep every 5 minutes and sounded like it was going to take off!
Then it was an iMac G5 which I have had to send back 4 times. Finally Apple have replaced the piece of garbage with a C2D machine so that makes me a bit happier. But now they are having a joke!
Over a month I have waited for the MBP to arrive and it's packed away ready to be thrown back at Apple.
One very very very unhappy customer who can't live without OSX, but has to put up with Apple!

I can see your logic about removing the RAM modules. It should hopefully isolate the problem.
However I can also see the original posters frustration at not having a decent setup from the box. Theoretically he should not have to play around with the RAM modules it should just work.
I only hope that Apple read this and sort this posters problem out pronto.

15" MBP C2D reboots on lid close

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The battery seems to be fine and hold a charge well. This reboot thing doesn't happen every time, but now I'm about 2 for 15 in spontaneous reboots after lid closure. (2 for 3 in the last 24 hours).
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It happened once to me - this morning. I was using my MBP C2D while travelling to work, shut the lid, packed it in my rucksack, and when I woke it up from sleep at work I noticed that it had gone asleep at the end of the boot process (just before the login window shows up). The log confirms that it actually rebooted some time after I closed the lid, and that it had not finished writing the "sleepimage" file (This is from /var/log/syslog, please check what your own machine was doing when it rebooted!):
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WinXp on External USB HD with MBP C2D and rEfit

I'll try to make this short... I've been in the process of installing WinXP onto an external USB drive to be used on my MBP C2D without installing ANYTHING on my OSX internal drive or partitioning. I've come a long way with tools from some very slick, resourceful people on the net and my own personal obsession with this.
This is where I am right now:
- I've made a USB installable WinXP disk with this guide (http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176)
- I did install Boot Camp 1.1.2 to burn my driver disk, thats all.
- I've boot to the XP disc then been able to begin the first phase of installation of XP, but when I reboot I am unable to boot to the windows drive to continue installation. Hitting Option -- or Cmd-Option-Shift-Delete doesn't work, also going into the OSX's Startup Disk option in System prefs. and selected the Windows drive doesn't work, it just sits there on the reboot.
- So I came across rEFIt- great tool (http://refit.sourceforge.net/), I decided to install it to a spare USB thumb drive (a suggestion from the site). rEFIt comes up, I select the windows USB drive, the gray windows logo appears then... I get a Booting Legacy OS error concerning rEFIt not fiding the USB Device Path.
I've read people with other models have gotten this to work and other people with this model have reported similar problems. What I have gathered is that this could simply be an issue that rEFIt (despite being an awesome tool) is not up to date enough to work with the MBP C2D firmware, that is why we are having this problem with it not initializing the USB for boot up. I found a thread on another forum where someone was having issues with the MacPro firmware and rEFIt, the creator of had to come out with what is now version 0.8 to address the issue.
Wasn't sure if anyone had any other suggestions.... any help would greatly appreciated, like many, I've lost lots of sleep over this!
THANKS!
MacBook Pro C2D 2.33-PowerMac Dual 2.0 G5-PowerMac Dual 1.42 G4-Mac mini 1.42 G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Funny how I had exact same problem (Seagate 300Gb drive, works great with PB G4 1.67, worked fine with 1st Gen MBP 2.0Ghz, new c2d MBP 2.16 does something strange to this drive. After plugging the drive into my MBP, it will not work in any other computer until I power it down.) - I am sure you get errors in system log after plugging in the HDD (just open Terminal.app and type sudo dmesg to verify)
I called AppleCare, they had me take it to store to confirm the problem. Next Apple initiated return. Now I am sitting without a laptop since Nov 8 and replacement will come on Nov 17th at the worst and 15th at the best.
I would suggest you call Applecare and have them initiate a return. The USB controller has a problem. Let AppleCare know of the details of your problem.
Forgot to add - Since it also is a OS issue (I had kernel panic after plugging/unplugging the external USB drive) I filed a bug report with Apple.
You can also file a bug report with Apple - http://bugreport.apple.com) and remember to provide drive model, serial number and model number, and dmesg output with errors in the report
Message was edited by: Parag Warudkar

MBP won't sleep under 10.5 or 10.6

Hi all,
Ever since I reinstalled 10.5 last January, my MBP (early 2008) refuses to sleep automatically - it works fine if I direct it to sleep manually or close the lid. I had hoped that 10.6 would fix this issue, but it has not. All the settings are correct under System Preferences, so I have no clue what is going on.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

Sorry null, that link was for an Intel iMac, should have been:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
Note the LED at the end if it pertains to your model.
MacBook (13 inch, Late 2008), MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2008), and MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2008)
If the computer is on, turn it off.
Disconnect the AC adapter and remove the computer's battery.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds and then release the button.
Reconnect the battery and AC Adapter.
Press the power button to restart the computer
Note: Starting with MacBook Pro (Late 2008) and MacBook (Late 2008) models, you may instead use the reset method for MacBook Air (below) to reset the SMC. All earlier models of MacBook and MacBook Pro must use the method described above, which involves removing the battery.
MacBook Air and MacBook Pro (Late 2008 and later)
If the computer is on, turn it off by choosing Shutdown from the Apple () menu.
Connect the power adapter to a working power source.
On the built-in keyboard, press (left) Shift-Control-Option along with the power button once.
Wait 5 seconds and press the power button to start the computer.
Note: You must use the keys on the left side of the built-in keyboard.
You should only perform an SMC reset when the MacBook Air or MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009) has been properly shutdown. This prevents issues from occurring to the file system.
While the power adapter does not need to be connected to reset the SMC, it may be necessary in situations where the battery needs charging or if the computer has been without power for an extended period of time. You can also visually check the SMC reset by observing the LED on the adapter. It will momentarily turn off as the SMC resets.
Joe

MBP won't sleep when closed?

Hey Guys,
I'm not sure what's up (as I didn't have this problem with 10.4.7) but ever since I updated to 4.8, when I close the lid on my MBP, the front light won't pulse at all.
I can here the HD and stuff still spinning etc.
If I have iTunes playing, it continues to play when closed (and it never did with 4.7)
I checked that spotlight isn't indexing. I close all my programs and still it wont sleep.
When I put it in its case to go to school, its really warm (since it's been on) and my battery life is dying because of it.
I don't know what's up with it, or what I can do to fix it? I checked the energysaver settings and they're all right. I've tried resetting PMU and repairing permissions aswell.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks in advanced.

See this thread for complete information on the files to delete. That fix is temporary. The recent firmware update for the MBP fixed the problem permanently (so far) for me, but not for others apparently.
MBP, MB, PMac G5, a few Linuxes Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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