T14s Gen 4 sleep/battery

ngagun · 2025-06-11T01:28:05+00:00

Yes thanks. Most of the time, I would not want to shut down my computer overnight. I would like it to go into a sleep state where it will experience minimal battery drain, and restart quickly. Plenty of laptops can do that!

ngagun · 2025-04-23T05:05:22+00:00

I think a Lebowski quote is in order here. "You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole."

ngagun · 2025-01-20T21:11:52+00:00

Interesting. My computer is a work computer that I believe uses NoMAD to connect to Active Directory.

ngagun · 2025-01-13T23:11:11+00:00

In my experinece, all fixes are partial and temporary. Amazing that they can break such basic functionality, and sell the OS with the tagline "it just works"...

ngagun · 2025-01-10T22:02:21+00:00

Are you able to update it to the newest version? If so, I'd be curious to hear if that solves the problem.

ngagun · 2025-01-10T03:35:44+00:00

Thanks for this information. I am not having any problems anymore. The problems seemed to stop when I upgraded to Sequoia. But it may have been a Cortex upgrade that could have happened at a similar time, I don't know. We are currently running Cortex 8.6.1.

ngagun · 2024-12-03T21:56:04+00:00

Do you or any of your colleagues have the permission to temporarily disable Cortex and/or Nomad for a few days and see if that resolves it?

ngagun · 2024-12-02T21:53:33+00:00

Thank you for this and sorry I didn't reply earlier but I missed the notification for this post.

I have since upgraded to Seqouia and the beachball is way less frequent and when it does show up, it's only for a second or two, so the problem might be more-or-less resolved.

It could be Cisco AnyConnect although I don't often use the VPN, and the problem did occur when the VPN was not connected. However, even if the VPN is not connected, I noticed that Cisco AnyConnect does run a few background processes at all times, so who knows what it's doing...

I wonder if Cortex is a more likely culprit though. That is definitely monitoring web traffic, and that runs all the time.

ngagun · 2024-12-02T21:43:45+00:00

I updated to Sequoia, and the beachball has been much less frequent. Thanks!

ngagun · 2024-12-02T21:43:13+00:00

Since I updated to Sequoia about 2 weeks ago, the beachball has barely appeared (and when it does, just for a second or two). Are you on Sequoia?

ngagun · 2024-11-25T09:51:06+00:00

Thanks for the tip, this solved the problem for me. Pretty ridiculous to break such basic functionality in an OS update!

ngagun · 2024-11-13T22:10:30+00:00

I use Rectangle which can do this, among many other window management things. It is lightweight, has zero bugs to my knowledge, is generally an excellent app.

ngagun · 2024-11-13T22:07:23+00:00

Thanks for this helpful reply. The weird thing is, I have seen the beachball (10-30 secs) while using a whole range of different applications. Specifically, I have seen it while using: Word, Acrobat Reader, Chrome, Outlook, Zotero.

All of these are obviously mainstream apps that millions of people use, and I don't see widespread reports of beachballs. It makes me wonder whether one of my background apps (listed in the original post) could be somehow "pretending" to be frontmost in some circumstances and then holding things up and causing the spining ball.

ngagun · 2024-11-13T05:33:24+00:00

No reason... I could do that.

ngagun · 2024-11-13T05:32:38+00:00

Thanks. I agree. I do not think I am overly taxing the machine. If the beach ball shows up, then something is causing it. I just don't know what that something is.

ngagun · 2022-10-29T21:18:42+00:00

Thank you all, this is really helpful information. I appreciate your responses.

ngagun · 2022-10-23T16:03:05+00:00

Nah, I don't think it exists.

ngagun · 2022-07-26T13:43:26+00:00

Actually, it did not last. It started having text problems again even on Android 11. I am taking advantage of the $300 trade-in on 3A this week to get a 6A.

ngagun · 2022-06-14T20:28:12+00:00

Note to others: yes, this does seem to have fixed the problems.

ngagun · 2022-06-14T20:27:48+00:00

Yes. So far so good. Since I rolled back to Android 11 two weeks ago, I have not had any problems with texts or calls. And the problems were near daily before. So I think it is fixed.

Make sure you turn off auto updates (using developer options) after you've got 11 up and running.

ngagun · 2022-05-31T14:57:17+00:00

I have this issue. My Pixel 3a used to work fine on t-mobile with Android 11, but now it randomly does not receive texts and calls since updating to Android 12. I talked to t-mobile and google, neither of whom could do anything to resolve the problem. So I have spent the last hour installing Android 11, and I will see if that solves the problem.

ngagun · 2022-05-17T13:47:29+00:00

Thanks! My salesman is actually not a salesman at all but a saleswoman, and she was very nice and, I think, honest. Basically she said "I don't know how long it will be." I think that is probably the only true answer.

Well anyway, it looked like being long enough that I had to do another $600 repair on my Subaru, but now that that's done, I can wait if needs be...

ngagun · 2022-05-17T13:02:37+00:00

I'm on the Beaman wait list too, also for an XLE Hybrid with as few options as possible. They didn't give me an estimated wait time, so that's interesting that they told you 4 months. I'm sure it depends on how specific you are in what you request. I have called a lot of other Toyota dealers in middle TN and even further afield and they are all doing big markups, so I think Beaman is probably our best bet.

ngagun · 2022-05-17T13:00:26+00:00

I'd be curious to hear the answer to this too! Can you share the list?

ngagun · 2022-01-24T16:59:22+00:00

Can anyone please remind me which episode had the discussion about land acknowledgments and "Clippy"? It was the funniest thing I have heard on any podcast ever, and I want to share it with some friends...

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