… It removes one of the most valuable features of OS X for laptop owners:
OS x lion WILL NOT recharge a plugged-in iPhone when the lid is closed (after 10 seconds of pretending to charge – just long enough to fool you – Apple cuts the power)
At conferences, on sales trips, on plane trips … I have relied on this feature many many times to recharge a phone off the laptop battery.
Now?
Denied.
No user setting for it (that I can find so far) just … Removed :(
Does this mean power is completely shut off to usb when the computer sleeps? And unplugging a device no longer wakes the computer?
OS X used ‘deep sleep’ by default, have you tried the other type of sleep?
So far, it seems to be:
While the display is ON, USB is running
While the lid is open by even just 5 millimetres, USB is running, until approx 10 seconds after the display sleeps
While the lid is closed, USB remains running for approx 10 seconds
If you boot to another OS (linux? windows?) and put the laptop into sleep mode…