Modern Standby - Scheduled Tasks

Try3 said:

I've been able to write about S0 Modern standby without any effing & blinding and I even managed to use the word curse just once.

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I'm proud of you Denis. A paragon of virtue these days.

So today, Monday, I called Dell. My machine supports the change from S0 to S3. The tech convinced me to just set sleep to never and use S0. Changed in power options and action to take when lid closes.

This was Denis's idea, set sleep to never, two days ago.

I still think the standard needs some work or the software developers need some new way of thinking about task initiation. I'm sure there is a way if people wanted to resolve this they could.

I'm going to give it a try, that is S0, no sleep.

Try3 said:

S0 is not a sleep state but an idle condition.

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S0 neither is a sleep state nor is an idle condition. S0 is the working state. See:

Here is a very old (yet still also very informative IMO nevertheless...) article page that discusses the S0ix, or System Idle States:

It is up to the user to verify and decide on whether the battery power consumption during Modern Standby is acceptable─and remains acceptable after changes are made, e.g., through Windows updates, driver updtates, toying with the various settings that can be directly/indirectly related to the behavior/characteristics and/or changing what background activities you have running on the system that could potentially affect the whole universe also in addition to whatever it was that they never actually wanted to tell you about. Good luck, and, above all else, have fun. You're going to need fun. lol

Post #2 includes a link to some sample S0 Modern standby power consumption test results.
S0 Modern standby consumed no more power than a comparable computer in S3 Sleep did.

Denis

Tell it to those ppl whose laptop's battery was fully charged when they put the laptop in their backpack and then half a day later when they took it out it was scaldingly hot with the battery gone almost completely flat.

Try reading the results before objecting to them.

Denis

hdmi said:

S0 neither is a sleep state nor is an idle condition. S0 is the working state. See:

System Power States - Windows drivers

System Power States

learn.microsoft.com

System Working State S0 - Windows drivers

System Working State S0

learn.microsoft.com

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Thanks for the clarification. What ever they call it there own language in the power options calls it sleep. Maybe they should update and call it "Low power state".

More things that should just be in the imaginary standard.

Try3 said:

Try reading the results before objecting to them.

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I'm not objecting to them. I'm only saying you should tell it to those ppl who experienced something extremely very different from what you have shown here.

Caledon Ken said:

Thanks for the clarification.

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And he was quite right.
In that post, that discussion of S0 Modern standby, in which the term S0 Modern standby was used over a dozen times, there were two instances in which I incorrectly wrote S0 instead of writing the full term S0 modern standby.
I have gone back through the whole thread and corrected all such errors.

Thank you, hdmi.

Denis

Caledon Ken said:

Thanks for the clarification. What ever they call it there own language in the power options calls it sleep. Maybe they should update and call it "Low power state".

More things that should just be in the imaginary standard.

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Well actually the powercfg a command does call it Standby (S0 Low Power Idle). But anyway. It wouldn't be the first time that Modern Standby suddenly starts acting up on you for no apparent reason you can pinpoint immediately I mean, even if it turns out that it does work for you what guarantee do you have that it won't easily begin to flurb? I suggest that you read up on how much trouble the feature has been causing for a lot of laptop users who got told over and over and over that nothing is wrong with it and that those who disagree must all be suffering from mass delusion. THEN decide whether it's worth the risk including time and effort spent on trying to experiment and evaluate. Sorry, but it is what it is.