I have a MacBook Pro running latest El Capitan and in the Bluetooth preferences pane I have set up that Bluetooth devices shouldn't be able to wake up the Mac. However, recently I have been finding my Mac overheated when I wake it from sleep. I observed the situation a bit, removed all USB devices and looked at Activity Monitor and the processes preventing from sleep were "rcd" and "hidd". After having put the laptop to sleep, the fans go completely silent for half a minute and then they start spinning. As soon as the fans start spinning either the keyboard's or trackpad's green LED turns on without any obvious input. A minute later the fans stop and that cycles until I wake it up.
MacBook – Bluetooth devices wake Mac OS X persistently
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A lack of wake reason entries suggests your Mac is never fully sleeping. The sleep mechanism has started but never completes.
Use the following Terminal command to view a detailed log showing your Mac's power history:
pmset -g log
You will see a list of entries in form:
* Domain: applicationresponse.slowresponse
- Message: PMConnection AirPort configd plug-in com.apple.powermanagement.applicationresponse.slowresponse 1399 ms
- Time: 13/03/2012 12:27:53 CET
- Signature: AirPort configd plug-in
- UUID: AB482838-2D6E-0000-0000-14BF53E20000
- Result: Noop
- Response time (ms): 1399
Look out for applications that may be keeping your Mac awake and active. Applications and other processes can keep your Mac awake if they are providing a service, such as file sharing or remote access. However, processes should be forced asleep after 30 seconds on lid close.
The behaviour you are seeing suggests a kernel extension or IOKit problem. User level processes can not block sleep when instigated by the user.
Do you have any utilities installed that install kernel extensions (kext)? These might include screen recording or audio capture tools; utilities than need low level access to your Mac.
In System Preferences > Bluetooth, make sure that Bluetooth is on and the Show Bluetooth in menu bar check box is checked. Then hold down alt or option before clicking the Bluetooth toolbar menu icon. Now, in the device's contextual menu you can remove it.
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Best Answer
Reinstalling OS X fixed it in case anyone has the same problem.