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Hello, I’m having some troubles with my 2017 non-touchbar macbook pro. The macbook works operates fine but once I close the lid, I can’t wake the computer unless I reset the SMC holding CTRL-Option-Shift-Power. As long as I don’t close the lid, I can sleep from the power menu and wake it by pressing any button the keyboard. I’m thinking it’s a problem with the lid sensor. This obviously gets very annoying since I cannot close the lid without having to completely reset the smc and reboot every time. Could anyone help me out?
I remember watching a video posted by Louis Rossman on an issue like this. I believe it was a sensor used to detect when the lid is opened. It uses a magnet and when the sensor goes bad, it doesn’t wake up the display. Try connecting it to an external display and see what happens.
Having the exact same problem here with a MacBook Pro late 2016 with touchbar. I think it has something to do with the serie of problems people experienced since the the 10.15.4 update (Kernel Panic on wake up). https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251… I managed to work around the problem by disabling Power Nap in the Energy Saver control panel and then by turning off the sleep mode altogether, but yet I still need to reset SMC everytime I try to restart after the lid has been closed. Very annoying.
