rabidman

Thanks. Point taken about the heat. Wouldn't the laptop throttle down the CPU if it overheats while the lid is closed, though ? I don't care about the battery while the laptop is docked, indeed. I know I could put the laptop in hibernation mode while on the go. That still causes a slow restart. Every work laptop I ever used before this one properly went to sleep - not hibernate - when closing the lid. Is this truly impossible to achieve on this laptop ? Even before I got hibernate working, I could also have shut down the laptop before boarding the airplane. It then wouldn't have stolen the Bluetooth headphones while buried deep in the overhead bin and not easily accessible, or drained the battery. However, it's very easy to forget to shut down your laptop, or put it in hibernate mode, while it's impossible to forget to close the lid when traveling, because it won't fit in the backpack otherwise.

Thanks for your response. I have previously used - but not owned - work-issued professional grade laptops that had custom docking station connectors, including a power button. This allowed starting them up with the lid closed. As I recall, they behaved in a slightly more rational manner with regard to the external display, though I don't remember exactly. It's been a while. Anyway, my goal is to be able to use the laptop as a desktop when at home, with the lid closed, attached to the Thunderbolt docking station and the KVM switch. I would like the laptop to properly sleep, not hibernate, so that it can resume quickly if needed, as my desktops do. I also want to be able to wake it up without taking a few steps to open the lid. WOL is just one way I was thinking of doing it, but simply enabling mouse or keyboard wakeup in device manager would do the trick as well. None of these wakeup methods will work if the laptop is in hibernate mode rather than sleep, though. Also, does anyone know why I might not be getting any email notifications for this topic ? I'm properly following it, but not receiving anything.

Thanks. I was able enable hibernation - not sure how anymore, but it was without the help of the LG power tool. I don't really know how much of the battery I need - I haven't been able to ascertain that yet due to the high self-discharge rate from the laptop not sleeping.

Thanks. This is crazy. I recently upgraded 4 custom built desktops from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 11 Pro. Sleep mode works as well as it ever did, including Wake-On-LAN, which I use extensively. It is mind blowing that laptops would not be able to go to sleep. That should be a stop ship bug, not just for this laptop, but any laptop. I setup my laptop with a local account, not a Microsoft account. Microsoft really makes it hard, but I still succeeded eventually. But I had to add my Microsoft account to access the store and download the LG Power Manager. Why doesn't this tool come with the laptop ? Also, I can't make any sense of it. The option to hibernate still does not show up in the context menu when right-clicking the Windows logo and selecting "shut down or sign out". What am I missing ? This is annoying enough to make me want to return the laptop to Costco. I have about a month and a half left to do so. I'm also running into another problem with BitLocker. I enabled it on the boot drive, and set it up with a PIN, so that the data would be inaccessible if the laptop was lost or stolen. The system asks for PIN at reboots for updates, of course. When connected to my docking station and KVM switch, the BIOS screen does not show on the attached external monitor, and the attached keyboard also does not function. I am forced to type the PIN on the laptop keyboard itself. Again, all this functionality works fine on my desktops attached to the KVM - I can see the BIOS screen and get into the BIOS menu.

I bought the above laptop 2 weeks ago from Costco, with Intel CPU, 16GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD. It is fairly nice. This is the first portable PC I have ever owned in 37 years of using them, and 32 years of building them - desktops, obviously. I'm having issues with the power management on this laptop. 1) on battery Closing the lid when on battery should make the machine sleep. Even with the lid open, the balanced power plan is supposed to make it sleep at 3 mins of inactivity on battery. It just doesn't seem to go to sleep. My evidence for that is that after a very long (>24hr) journey during which it wasn't used and in my backpack, the battery was at less than 20% when I finally arrived at my destination and started using it. Also, I couldn't easily connect my Sony headphones to my smartphone while in the airplane. The headphones were paired with both the PC and the smartphone. The headphones would always connect to the PC in the overhead bin first, which was presumably not fully asleep. I kept turning the headphones on and off and manually trying to connect from my phone, and eventually won the race. 2) lid closed, plugged in At home, I use the laptop with a USB-C docking station, and the lid closed. The balanced power plan is supposed to make it sleep at 5 mins of inactivity when plugged in. It does not. It remains constantly on 24/7, consuming power. It can be ping'ed, remote accessed into, used locally with the KVM, etc. Forcibly using the start menu and shutdown->sleep has no effect whatsover. These are serious enough problems that I'm considering returning the laptop to Costco, even though I paid for an upgrade from Win11 Home to Win11 Pro from Keysoff, and the key is now tied to this hardware. Does any LG laptop user have an idea what to do here to let the thing sleep ?