Ever since I’ve been on Verizon’s EVDO with my MacBook PRO my Mac won’t sleep as quickly. Sometimes it won’t sleep at all and lets the battery drain completely. What’s worse is when it does sleep it needs a reboot to reconnect to EVDO after waking from sleep. I’ve been looking for a solution for sometime.
I’ve now removed the VZAccess software from Verizon and am running with the native EVDO drivers that ship with OSX 10.4.7+. Found a few pointers that recommend this. There is a good summary page here.
What you will miss by Uninstalling
* Logging of each connection, connected time, data transfered
* Graph of current usage along with fastest upload and download speeds
* Manual Activation
You’ll now get a nice signal meter and connected time in the top title bar (see image below).
Kevin Henrikson
Kevin has spent his career making annoying but important things work better at scale: enterprise email at Zimbra, mobile productivity (co-founded Acompli, acquired by Microsoft for $200M and became Outlook Mobile), marketplace operations at Instacart, and now healthcare administration as Co-Founder of Pretty Good AI.