Wakes from sleep momentarily upon plugging MBP in.

Whenever I plug my computer in it always wakes from sleep for a few seconds (with the lid down.) My boot drive is an Expresscard SSD, but I don't know if that is the cause of this problem. Does anybody know what the problem could be?

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MBP wakes from sleep as soon as ac adapter is plugged in

My MBP recently wakes from sleep after this series of events:
1. Use MBP on battery power
2. Close lid
3. Sleeps (light pulses so apparently sleeping)
4. Plug in AC adapter (while the lid is still closed)
5. Wakes at that moment the adapter is plugged in (while the lid is still closed)
6. Sometimes the MBP recognizes the lid is indeed closed and then goes to sleep itself; other times, the MBP goes to sleep, then immediately wakes, then goes to sleep, then wakes, etc., repeatedly (this happens all while the lid is closed as if it's demented), until I open the lid, wake the system and then close the lid again. Then it will finally sleep.
"Wake on AC change" is set to No (see below). I was wondering if anyone knew how to set it to Yes. Maybe I just need to switch the setting back and forth once.
I can recreate the problem, so I can just take it to the Apple Store and let them figure it out (Applecare is still in effect), but I was just wanted to give it a shot here first.
Battery Information:
Model Information:
Serial Number: Sony-ASMB012-3926-1554
Manufacturer: Sony
Device name: ASMB012
Pack Lot Code: 0001
PCB Lot Code: 0000
Firmware Version: 0110
Hardware Revision: 0500
Cell Revision: 0303
Charge Information:
Charge remaining (mAh): 4811
Fully charged: No
Charging: Yes
Full charge capacity (mAh): 5202
Health Information:
Cycle count: 91
Condition: Good
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA): 1342
Voltage (mV): 12530
System Power Settings:
AC Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 20
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 20
Automatic Restart On Power Loss: No
Wake On AC Change: No
Wake On Clamshell Open: Yes
Wake On LAN: No
Display Sleep Uses Dim: Yes
Battery Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 5
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 3
Wake On AC Change: No
Wake On Clamshell Open: Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim: Yes
Reduce Brightness: Yes
Hardware Configuration:
UPS Installed: No
AC Charger Information:
Connected: Yes
Charging: Yes

tsenga88 wrote:
i have the same problem as well...but in my case water spilled on my macbook i let dry it for a day and when i switched it on it went on butwent off after about an hour..and ever since then every time i connect the charger it turnsoff and some times it just doesnt charge at all...please help
You don't have the same problem, you have the 'I damaged my Mac by spilling water on it' problem.
it will probably fail.
Take it to an Apple Store.

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Hi again,
your statements that the workaround does not "work around"
on your machines confuses me a bit. It looks like the changes
in the com.apple.PowerManagement file don't produce the desired
effect.
First question: Did you restart your computers after having
applied the changes ? If not, try this first.
Can it depend on the model of MBP (I have the new Santa Rosa) ?
If I save the file as an ASCII file it looks like this:
ActivePowerProfiles = {"AC Power" = -1; "Battery Power" = -1; };
"Custom Profile" = {
"AC Power" = {
"Automatic Restart On Power Loss" = 0;
"Disk Sleep Timer" = 0;
"Display Sleep Timer" = 0;
"Display Sleep Uses Dim" = 0;
"Hibernate File" = "/var/vm/sleepimage";
"Hibernate Mode" = 3;
"Mobile Motion Module" = 1;
"System Sleep Timer" = 0;
"Wake On AC Change" = 0;
"Wake On Clamshell Open" = 0;
"Wake On LAN" = 0;
"Battery Power" = {
"Disk Sleep Timer" = 10;
"Display Sleep Timer" = 5;
"Display Sleep Uses Dim" = 1;
"Hibernate File" = "/var/vm/sleepimage";
"Hibernate Mode" = 3;
"Mobile Motion Module" = 1;
ReduceBrightness = 0;
"System Sleep Timer" = 15;
"Wake On AC Change" = 0;
"Wake On Clamshell Open" = 0;
System Profiler says:
Einstellungen für Stromversorgung des Systems:
Netzbetrieb:
Ruhezustand des Systems (nach Anzahl von Minuten): 0
Ruhezustand der Festplatte (nach Anzahl von Minuten): 0
Ruhezustand des Monitors (nach Anzahl von Minuten): 0
Bei Stromverlust automatisch neu starten: Nein
Ruhezustand bei Änderung der Stromversorgung beenden: Nein
Ruhezustand beim Öffnen des Computers beenden: Nein
Ruhezustand bei administrativen Netzwerk-Zugriffen beenden: Nein
Zum Ruhezustand des Monitors den Monitor abdunkeln: Nein
Batteriebetrieb:
Ruhezustand des Systems (nach Anzahl von Minuten): 15
Ruhezustand der Festplatte (nach Anzahl von Minuten): 10
Ruhezustand des Monitors (nach Anzahl von Minuten): 5
Ruhezustand bei Änderung der Stromversorgung beenden: Nein
Ruhezustand beim Öffnen des Computers beenden: Nein
Zum Ruhezustand des Monitors den Monitor abdunkeln: Ja
Helligkeit verringern: Nein
(German only, sorry)
And - I checked it just a minute ago - i works ! My MBP
goes to sleep when lid is shut and does NOT wake, when I
open the lid. After pressing a key, it comes to life again.
Regards,
Robert
P.S. Please have a look at the files in the
Library/Preferences/System Configuration Folder.
Is there only one file for Energy preferences or
did your system create another one, when you tried
to change settings via System Preferences ? I saw
this one time a few weeks ago, but I don't know
the exact conditions under which that happened.
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Time Machine "preparing backup" eternally upon wake from sleep

at a bit of a loss here...
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10.5.5 with all updates applied
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Up until about two months ago, Time machine functioned fined. Then for some reason, the following started to happen. (no known reason, no software update related etc, that I know of)
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2) erased, repartioned (as a single partition) external drive
3) started brand new time machine backup (takes about three hours)
At this point, time machine will backup up fine... I can force a successful backup, if I leave the machine running, at one hour it does a successful backup.
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The only workable method for using time machine is to turn the external drive and time machine off when not using it, and turn the whole shootin' match on to do what essentially becomes manual backups. These backup are fairly lengthy, as time machine also does lengthy "preparing backup", but they complete in about 30 minutes to one hour.
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Screen blinks/flashes upon wake from sleep. is this normal?

I just got my Macbook a few days ago and started to notice that my screen flashes or blinks when it wakes from sleep. I have searched on Google and haven't seen any one post about it so I'm guessing this is normal. This is not the flicker of brightness that other people are talking about.
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Take it to your local Apple store and they will send it off for repair. Or call Apple and they will send you a box to mail it in for repair.
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I just repeated the beep on wake from sleep.
Here is the console system log from before and after the sleep session.
Oct 15 11:44:05 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
Oct 15 11:44:05 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Oct 15 11:44:05 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 1073741824, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
Oct 15 11:44:05 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 3
Oct 15 11:44:05 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: hibernateallocpages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
Oct 15 11:44:08 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer launchd: Server 0 in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[75]: exited abnormally: Hangup
Oct 15 11:44:08 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer configd[34]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: System SafeSleep
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall start
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall time: 68 ms
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: pages 105739, wire 23101, act 14824, inact 19629, zf 9273, could discard act 19923 inact 18989
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall found pageCount 105739
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen, mlget_interruptsenabled 0
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: writing 105519 pages
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: image1Size 37189120
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: all time: 3605 ms, comp time: 675 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: image 114174464, uncompressed 272822272 (66607), compressed 113735084 (41%), sum1 4c777e1e, sum2 e53985f3
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: hibernatewriteimage done(0)
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: sleep
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: Enabling XMM register save/restore and SSE/SSE2 opcodes
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: Started CPU 01
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: IOBluetoothHCIController::restartShutdownWL this is a wake from sleep
Oct 15 12:15:13 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer kernel[0]: System Wake
Oct 15 12:15:15 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer lookupd[242]: lookupd (version 369.6) starting - Sun Oct 15 12:15:15 2006
Oct 15 12:15:18 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer launchd: Server 0 in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[242]: exited abnormally: Hangup
Oct 15 12:15:18 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer configd[34]: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Oct 15 12:15:18 r-r-andrew-nelsons-computer lookupd[249]: lookupd (version 369.6) starting - Sun Oct 15 12:15:18 2006
Any insight would be appreciated.
Cheers
MacBook Pro 15" 1.83GHz, 1G RAM, 80G HD (W8611), XP Home under Parallels Mac OS X (10.4.8) Dell Inspiron 4100 XP Home

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When it wakes from sleep, it does not connect to the preferred network. The preferred network is visible, yet when we select it, it asks for the password again -- which I know it is entered correctly -- but the password is refused. A full reboot is required for it to work properly.
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Note: I do have TrendMicro Internet security installed, but it is also on the the other iMac and I have tried it with it off and the problem still occurs, thus I doubt it has much to do with it.
Puzzled,
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