The obvious downside to this is what happens if the battery hits zero? It does seem like it would just shutdown and lost the state of whatever was open – It would be nice if you could enable hibernate on the device but only once it hits 5% of charge remaining.

The hibernate feature of Windows is actually really useful in those dangerously low battery scenarios, it’s just a shame it comes in too soon on the Pro X out of the box. I would recommend disabling it as per the blog post if you want a “proper” ARM experience.

The previous generation devices did drain much less when sleeping, but I guess that’s the price we pay when an ARM chip is clocked to the point it draws similar power to an intel chip!

I’ve got a Pro X and notice that it hibernates way too quickly – I’ve compared it to older Windows on ARM devices like the HP Envy and those devices don’t really ever hibernate.

The Pro X will hibernate within a couple hours of being asleep – This is why I’ve been looking into how to disable it, because otherwise it defeats the object of an ARM device for me (I was really disappointed with the sleep/hibernate cycle and the battery life in general compared to the older WoA devices….but obviously it’s way faster).

Anyway….onto my question: If we disable hibernate using this command line, does it completely disable it, or will the device still hibernate if more than 5% battery drains in connected/modern standby? This is a feature to prevent devices completely draining, but we shouldn’t need to worry about that with a WoA device like the Pro X