XPS 13 - sleep mode

Hello everyone,

I recently purchase the XPS 13 i5 6200u. The unit is great and Windows 10 is nice. However, I have a question regarding the sleep mode.

During the first few weeks I would have to wake up the unit by pressing the power button. The Dell logo will appear along with a quick idle icon. I would assume this is the proper sequence to waking up the unit. Once waken the lockscreen appears.

Since yesterday the unit will "wake" based on me lifting the lid or hitting any key and it goes directly to my lockscreen. I don't believe this is the correct since the battery drained significantly.

I did not adjust the power/sleep settings. Which is the proper sleep mode? If it's the latter than why the battery drain?

Any inputs is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

The default Dell powerplan is set to hibernate after a few hours, iirc (see Advanced options). Hibernation (S4) requires a power button push to wake and the Dell logo shows, otherwise waking from Sleep (S3) doesn't show the logo. Check Event Viewer to see why your machine isn't entering hibernation.

There has been an intermittent bug with Skylake models where the XPS sometimes refuses to enter sleep, or even shut down fully. Switching between power plans can fix this, or if nothing else helps then rebooting once into Safe Mode will sort it.

 

ghtop - thank you for the info. Thank explains a few things:

- my unit would hibernate after some time since I had to press the power button for it to wake.
- as you mentioned, this setting came out of the box

However, As of last night I now have all setting on sleep. This incudes when lid is closed. This morning when I flipped the lid up I noticed the unit was hibernating. I had to hit the power button to wake.

How can I turn off hibernation since I hear it is not the best for SSD drives?

 

You need to go into the advanced settings for your power plan, expand the Sleep settings and you will see "Hibernate after ...". Highly recommeded to leave it on unless you're never taking your laptop off AC power.

Put any thoughts of SSD microptimization like that right out of your head or it will drive you crazy and ruin your enjoyment of your laptop. It will be many many years before you notice any SSD wear, long long after you'll be wanting to swap out your dying battery ... and almost certainly you'll have a new machine before then.

 

ghtop - Once again thank you. I kept the hibernate at the default 10 minutes. Lots changed since me coming back from Apple. Vista was the last Windows version that I have used. Enjoying Windows 10 so far...