Dell XPS not sleeping

Question

My Dell XPS 15 doesn't seem to sleep when I close the lid. I'll close it at night and when I open it in the morning the battery will be completely drained. I checked powercfg -requests but all categories show None. Any ideas as to what could be preventing sleep?

Answer 1

For Windows, there is a setting to keep the screen on and the computer awake even when the lid is closed.

This can be changed through the Control Panel -> Power Settings, and either changing the entire power plan to Balanced, or editing the power plan to change the setting for when the lid is closed.

Answer 2

Thanks.

I had an issue where my laptop was going into hibernate even though I was asking for it to stay in sleep mode longer. After generating powercfg /SYSTEMPOWERREPORT I noticed Drain (dozed to hibernate because the standby battery budget was exceeded). After searching this came up and also this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/power-settings/adaptive-hibernate which basically states that windows will transition to hibernate once a certain amount of battery is drained (even if the hibernate timer has not kicked in) Apparently this is powercfg /setdcvalueindex scheme_current sub_presence standbybudgetpercent 60 will increase that percentage

Answer 3

XPS 15 7590 in 2019 requires a slightly different approach.

First, you can make sure that your Connected Standby is draining your battery and placing your computer into hibernation:

 # run in admin PowerShell:
 powercfg.exe /systempowerreport /output $home\Desktop\power-report.html
 # open in browser:
 file:///C:/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Desktop/power-report.html

If you see "Drain (dozed to hibernate because the standby battery budget was exceeded)", then the following can help.

Normally, you would turn off Connected Standby altogether by setting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power CsEnabled = 0, but due to an issue with the WiFi/Bluetooth adapter, you will completely lose Bluetooth on every wake up.

This worked for me (in the context of Connected Standby):

1. Go to Windows Settings -> Power & Sleep -> Network Connection -> Disconnect from the network -> Always

2. Open an admin PowerShell and run (you must have Chocolatey installed; alternatively you can install NSudo manually):

    choco install -y nsudo
   

3. Open a new PowerShell window without restrictions:

    nsudo -U:S -P:E powershell
   

4. In that window, disable tasks which torture your computer when you leave it idle for a few minutes:

    Get-ScheduledTask | Where-Object { $_.State -ne "Disabled" -and $_.Triggers -match "MSFT_TaskIdleTrigger"} | Disable-ScheduledTask
   

5. Disable tasks which deplete your battery in Connected Standby, placing your computer in hibernation, and severely slowing the next startup when you open the lid:

    Get-ScheduledTask | Where-Object { $_.State -ne "Disabled" -and $_.settings.waketorun } | Disable-ScheduledTask
   

UPDATE 25/06/2020:

I've since found a better solution - increase the standby battery consumption budget from 5% to 60%. This will make it through the occasional night of being turned off without being on charger.

  powercfg /setdcvalueindex scheme_current sub_presence standbybudgetpercent 60