X200 power management issue - excessive battery drain

I've been having a bit of an issue for some time with my X200 that I'm hoping somone may be able to offfer some insight on. My 9 cell battery only gives about 6 hours on a full charge. The laptop is about 5 months old, but the battery is in good shape (82kwh out of 84kwh capacity).
On an initial startup the power usage is normal, hovering at around 7-8 watts (looking at the Battery tab wattage in Power Manager). This level roughly maintains even if i am doing light tasks. This strikes me as normal, and would give the regular nine or ten hours of battery life I had when i first got the computer.
However, if I allow the computer to either sleep or hibernate, even a few minutes after resume the power consumption (AT IDLING, nothing open) rises to an idling pace of about 11-12 watts. This doesn't go back down to the pre-sleep/hibernate levels, ever (until a restart). The 25% or so increase in power consuption after sleep/hibernate happens regardless of which power profile I'm in (though the above usage #'s assume I'm in max battery mode with 4 bars of screeen brightness os so).
This means that 25% or so more power is being consumed after the computer resumes from sleep or hibernate, with a corresponding drop in battery life. Can anyone offer some insight on why this might be, ways I might go about trying to figure out where the excesssive power onsumption comes from, and/ or possible fixes?

Its a thinkpad x200 7454-CTO
Specs are:
Intel Core 2 Duo processor P8400 (2.26GHz)
Vista business (32 bit)
4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 (2 DIMM)
160GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm
Intel GMA x4500
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Integrated Bluetooth
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Intel wifi link 5300
Enhanced 9-cell battery

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X200 Power Management Issue

Hello Everyone,
First time posting here in the Lenovo Community, hoping some of you can provide guidance.
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So, long story short, the laptop will only go into standby after a reboot.
We use System Center Configuration Manager to deploy our X200, T400 and W500 laptops. We used to be running X61, T61 and T61p's, and never had this issue. All drivers are up to date and we're running XP.
Is there any trick to getting standby to run properly? We have the Power management driver, Power Manager and the System interface driver installed.
Any desktop deployment people have any luck with this?
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Allow me to break in here.
See this thread:
http://forum.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-and-Z-series/LTT-Power-Manager-or-Lenovo-Energy-Management-...
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sgegreen wrote:
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface When you think the laptop is powered off it's actually in ACPI Power State S5 with power being supplied to the power button and some of the USB sockets. So, when you shut down the laptop and then removed the power cord, if the BIOS version was lower than 1.13, the laptop was still draining the battery.I followed your suggestion, and it seems solving the problem, thank you. However, another problem arises just recently. When I was playing a game on my laptop, the battery capacity is decreasing when the AC power connected (as described by both lenovo and Windows battery gauge). I post this problem in https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/11e-Windows-E-and-Edge-series/ThinkPad-E455-Battery-Capacity-Reduced-When-Connected-to-AC/td-p/2106218. Oddly, the problem (seems) does not occur when I quit the game to windows. Why was this happen?

IPad iOS 6.1.2 update causing excessive battery drain

I have noticed in other discussions that a number of iPhone users have experienced excessive battery drain after updating to iOS 6.1.2.
I am now experiencing this problem in a big way after updating to iOS 6.1.2 on an iPad 3.   Prior to this update, my battery life was very good, dropping to only 70% to 80% at the end of a typical day of use.
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I am wondering just how many of you are still experiencing excessive battery drain on your iPod, after updating your iOS to 4.0 (and beyond)?
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Some have suggested switching the iPod to Airplane mode when it is not in use but really, that isn't very acceptable as a permanent solution. The simply act of placing it in standby should be enough... just like it prior to iOS 4.x.
A similar problem crept up on my iPhone 4 (with the release of iOS 4.3) but Apple did promptly solve it with iOS 4.3.1. It would be nice to receive the same consideration for the iPod Touch 2nd gen... OR at least provide a way to go back to iOS 3.1.3.
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Since the release of iOS 4.0, the iPod has been unacceptably poor for standby longevity. The battery now drains completely within 24 hours.
Prior to iOS 4.0, the iPod could retain a standby charge for, at least, one week.
In use, with WiFi, 4-5 hours of run-time was typically expected, however, after the iOS 4.0 and subsequent iOS updates (up to the current iOS 4.2.1 (8C148) the run-time is about 2 hours.
There are a lot of iPod users complaining about this problem in the forums. Please solve this problem.
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If someone has a suite of apps on their device and Apple pushes an update and then immediately afterward the battery drain starts, then from my point of view, the new OS is to blame.
Your point of view seems to be flawed and not valid.
Apple has no control of 3rd party Apps.
Maybe the older Apps are not behaving properly with the new iOS?
Maybe the 3rd party Apps need an update to comply to the new iOS?
Like I said above, everyone uses different Apps and we have no idea who has what Apps.
Please don't shift the blame, and why won't Apple address this publically or allow a pathway back?
Why do you think Apple needs to address this if you don't even want to try testing things yourself?
Report your own testing here.
Turning Airplane mode on will start in your testing. If you battery lasts longer, then try the next step like turning the Airplane mode off and turn then off all the Apps that use Push or Fetch. Try and identify the problematic App that might be draining the battery.
I am on my 5th day now and the battery is still FULLY charged.
I have no need for Apple to fix anything.
My suggestion would be to test the things I described above rather than placing the blame on 4.2.1 iOS.
If nothing works, and your battery still drains, then you probably have a defective iPod Touch or battery.
I am certainly not saying some people don't have defective devices or batteries, they just need to do a little more testing to find the problem.
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Power management issue USB 2.0 Root Hub

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The AVAST antivirus was blocking the hibernation , by one function called as ( On acces file check ) .
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But at list i did a good step on the corect direction.

870A-G54 - power management issues

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The computer. If two different batteries behave the same way it gives credence to possible issues with the power manager. You can try resetting it with:
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Both seem to be related to power management, that's why I decided to put them in one thread.
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LennyL wrote:
Hi,
everybody suggests "hdparm -B 254 /dev/sdxxxx". This does NOT work. At all. The Load Cycle Count keeps going up. The 2nd HDD (in the CD/hdd caddy) powers down every few seconds, then up again.
I found this works: "hdparm -S 25 /dev/sdxxxxx" (change sdXXX in sda, sdb, or whatever relevant to your case). It sets spindown every 25*5 seconds. Second hdd is practically always on and LoadCycleCount remains constant.
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LennyL wrote:
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I have two hard drives (second is in aftermarket caddy), but it seems the second hd (the one in the caddy) is NOT seen by BIOS at boot. So I can only boot from the internal hdd. After booting, the second hdd is seen by Linux, SATA link reports 3Gb, no issues, all is fine.
Same here, the secondary hard drive is not seen in BIOS or in the BIOS boot menu.
After booting Windows/Linux, the drive works fine.
UPDATE: Even in good ol' DOS, the drive is seen. (I just booted DOS for a firmware update of an SSD drive, which was installed in the hard drive caddy.)
Where did you get the BIOS v1.32? The latest on the Lenovo Website and in System Update is 1.20..
Can you verify something for me too?
On my L520, Turbo Mode does not work at all, how about yours?
You can verify under Windows using hwinfo (http://www.hwinfo.com/ ).
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