User Guide

Sleep and hibernation

If you don’t use Surface Pro for a few minutes, it goes to sleep just like a laptop. Sleep is a power-saving state

that allows Surface to quickly resume when you want to start working again.

If you don’t use Surface Pro for an hour, it will go into a hibernation state. While sleep puts your work and

settings in memory and draws a small amount of power, hibernation puts your open documents and programs

on your hard disk, and then turns off your Surface. For more info on hibernating, see Shut down, sleep, or

hibernate on Windows.com.

Change when the screen dims, turns off, or sleeps

If you don’t use Surface Pro for a while, the screen may dim or turn off, or Surface may go to sleep. This happens

to help preserve battery life. Here’s where you can change these settings:

1. Open the Settings charm, tap or click Change PC settings > PC and devices > Power and sleep.

2. Under Screen, choose when you want the screen to turn off.

3. Under Sleep, choose when you want Surface to go to sleep.

Note If you’d like to make more changes to how Surface Pro uses power, see Power plans: Frequently asked

questions on Windows.com.

Charging

Surface Pro comes with an internal lithium-ion battery designed to go

everywhere you go. The amount of time your battery lasts varies depending

on the kinds of things you do with your Surface and your power plan.

Here’s how to charge Surface:

 Plug the power cord into an electrical outlet or power strip. Then

connect the power connector to the charging port (either direction

is good). A light appears when Surface is getting power (see

picture).

How much battery charge is remaining?

You can see the battery status in a few places:

 Charms. Lower-left corner after you open the charms (see

picture).

 Lock screen. Lower-left corner of the lock screen.

 Desktop taskbar. Battery status appears on the desktop taskbar.

Tap the battery icon to see the percentage remaining.