Very long delay on shutdown, restart and wake from sleep on Windows 10

Hi,

I’m experiencing on my GPD Pocket a very long delay on shutdown, restart and wake from sleep actions on Windows 10.

The power button stays lit white and orange or just white if I wake from sleep, for about at least 2-3 minutes then performs the restart or shutdown operation. For wake from sleep it’s faster but still takes some frustrating time having you thinking it has frozen.

Is this normal behavior and how can we change this for this to instantly restart/shutdown or wake from sleep?

Thank you in advance.

Regards.

Alexandros

Haven't had this issue yet but if I recall from past notebooks with eMMC, you may want to do a TRIM. Go to start->Run (or hit WinKey+R) and type in DFRGUI.EXE

It will give you the option to OPTIMIZE. It knows it's an SSD and won't defrag but it will TRIM your drive.

The other thing to do is to download the latest drivers. http://www.gpd.hk/news.asp?id=1519&selectclassid=002002

Unfortunately the Optimize didn't fix the issue. I have it already updated in terms of OS and drivers.

Whatever I do, when I shut the GPD Pocket down, I have the right LED of the Power key lit white for several minutes (typically about 5 minutes), then it finally goes off.

I also notice standby time when in sleep mode is ridiculously low, and sometimes, instead of actually shutting down, my GPD Pocket will restart Windows.

If I didn't have this issue, my experience with the GPD Pocket would have been very good.

I thought I had fixed this by resetting my BIOS settings to defaults but the issue came back after a couple of reboots.

After that, I tried to re-upgrade to the latest BIOS 0807 and reset to defaults again but that did not help, I still have 5 minutes of right LED of the Power key lit white before the GPD actually switches off.

If it was just cosmetic, I wouldn't mind, but sometimes the GPD fails to actuallyy shut-off and reboots, which causes the battery to drain until 0%. Very annoying.

I still haven't fixed the issue, but I noticed something quite interesting:


- when I fresh boot on the login screen and directly shut down from there, there's no issue, the computer almost immediately shuts off

- when I boot on to the Windows desktop then shutdown from there, the issue is there, I have to wait 5 minutes once Windows has shut down for the right white LED of the Power key turns off, with sometimes ending up to a system reboot even when the cap is closed, something that drains the battery.

I believe I finally fixed the issue !

I actually followed an advice from a comment on this reddit post :

https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comments/728dtz/fail_to_windows_shutdown/

It says to uninstall Virtual Box or VMware. For some reason the issue hasn’t reappeared since I uninstalled Virtual Box that I was using. That means no virtualization on the GPD though...