After I click 'Hibernate', my laptop does hibernate, but only sometimes. Other times, the screen immediately fades black. But then the power button stays illuminated, and 10 s later (after I clicked 'Hibernate') the screen reappears, with everything before still opened.In both cases, my laptop had the same 3 USB devices plugged.
Disabling Wake Timers and seeking the Wake Source didn't help:
Update on 28 July 2018
Performing the steps in this answer, didn't help. See this for my most updated energy-report.html.
Best Answer
Bingo!!! I seem to have successfully troubleshooted and resolved a similar issue with the help of this reddit post: Has anyone else noticed that their computer no longer goes to sleep automatically after updating to Windows 10?
Steps to troubleshoot:
As already mentioned by Harrymc, you can use the
powercfg -energy
command to get a report of its power-use diagnostics. The result may indicate errors, warnings or other useful information and is stored here:C:\Windows\System32\energy-report.html
For example my summary report was:
and the more detailed:
Typing
powercfg -requests
into a command prompt (might have to be elevated). should tell you what programming is keeping your PC awake. For my report I got:Resolutions
Overriding the programming keeping windows awake. Using the command
powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE
tells windows to ignore whatever is keeping it awake and go to sleep.
For instance according to my report I had to override the
Kernel Driver
andConnectifyd
process.Note! You do not have to necessarily override it, because it the given driver might be keeping the PC awake because its in use, a good example is the Intel Audio Driver above, after stopping the audio its no longer active.
My culprit was the process -
Connectifyd
.Nevertheless to override type this commands accordingly:
e.g
Credits: Simplifyze (Reddit);Has anyone else noticed that their computer no longer goes to sleep automatically after updating to Windows 10?