Windows 10: Surface Laptop 3 hibernates too fast after sleep

In the advanced power plan settings, Windows 10 allows us to configure "Sleep after x minutes" and "Hibernate after x minutes".

Whenever I set "Hibernate after x minutes" to a value != 'Never', my Surface Laptop 3 hibernates after sleeping for a much shorter amount of time than I set up. For example, I'm currently trying to set it so it hibernates after 12 hours of not being used, but when I came back to check after 1 hour, the computer as already hibernating.

The only way to make this stop is to set it to "Never".

Is there a hidden power plan setting that could help me with this?

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I have a weird powercfg /a response and no Hibernate anywhere-Surface Pro 3

I have tried all manners that I know of to enable Hibernate

Microsoft support has posted a help article with instructions to fix this issue:

Source Surface Pro 3 or Surface 3 doesn't hibernate in Windows 10

 

Hibernating laptop changes to sleep behaviour after Windows 10 May 2019 update

Hi Aditya,

Thank you for your reply. I have tried the two steps (turning of Hybrid sleep and Fast startup) you suggested but to no avail. Okay, for your two questions:

1. My laptop is a HP Pavilion 14-bf101tx, and currently running Windows 10 1903 (upgrading from 1809).
2. Nope. No error messages. I suppose the boot process was successful, however, my battery was reduced. That's why I suggest the post title as "Hibernating changes to sleep behaviour" because the battery level reduction looks like sleep behaviour.

Please inform me of any diagnostics information you might need. Thank you for your kind assistance.

 

sleep or hibernate

sleep and hibernate are the same thing now.


S3 'sleep' has the entire system powered off, EXCEPT for system ram. a copy of ram is stored on the HDD when entering sleep.
To answer the OP's question about the HDD taking wear and tear moving the laptop around - in sleep mode, it is powered off. ONLY system RAM has power in S3 sleep states.

Hibernate is when it loses power, it boots from the saved copy of ram. Often, this can load slower than a fresh boot since it has to load more from the HDD than usual.


so asking which you prefer... well, unless its a laptop you plan to store overnight or something, use sleep. its the same thing.

S3 sleep drains my laptop battery at only 2-3% an hour, so its not like its going to have a large impact on daily use.