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June 10th, 2014 23:00

Dell Venue pro 8 black screen sometimes if waking it with windows button

Sometimes if I wake up my Venue 8 pro tablet with the windows button, all I see is black screen. There seems to be minimal back light leaking from the screen but pressing the windows button a few times won't display the log on screen. The tablet is NOT turned off. If I press the power button, I always get the screen turn on with log in screen, immediately. Is this a common issue or am I unlucky? Thanks.

September 13th, 2014 03:00

Hello, I'm having this issue with my unit as well...DV8Pro won't wake-up from sleep. I had to hold press the power button for 10 secs in order to boot it up again. I just had it for a month. Did anyone found a solution to this? Is dell listening to its customers?

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June 11th, 2014 02:00

I haven't had that issue. But since applying Microsoft's recent Patch Tuesday updates, I will get a momentary (maybe 1/2 second) black screen when I press a Taskbar icon--then it's as if Windows corrects itself and everything normalizes. I've never had this before and hope it is only a "growing pain" glitch from the slew of the recent updates--I do tie this to the Patch Tuesday updates, as the issue hadn't existed for me previously.

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June 11th, 2014 23:00

Try rolling back your wifi driver. Worked for me.

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June 12th, 2014 16:00

It only happens occasionally. I have just updated everything with what I downloaded from dell.com. I have not seen black screen since but it's been only a couple of days since my update. The wifi driver, on the other hand, crashed once, after waking up my tablet and a disable-enable cycle revived it. I'll keep an eye on this black screen issue and post some updates in a week or two.

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September 13th, 2014 14:00

Please don't double-post--it just clutters and confuses matters . . . .     :emotion-5:

September 18th, 2014 18:00

Yes. Very helpful. Thank you. At least, I know that somebody has read my post. :)

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September 18th, 2014 21:00

Yep, no need for responses to be posted in 2 locations . . . .   :emotion-5:

September 20th, 2014 05:00

I ever turn off the wifi of my unit. Still have the same issue.

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September 20th, 2014 05:00

Guys, I was really surprised but the solution for my device was just do not turn wifi off.

Please, try and let me know if it works for you.

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September 20th, 2014 06:00

If this button is disabled than you haven't ever update this driver.
My driver was updated, so the first step I tried is to rollback.

Sorry, I cannot help you in such case.

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September 20th, 2014 06:00

Try to roll back wifi driver and do not turn it off.
(Open Device manager -> Network adapters -> Dell wireless 802.11 Adapter -> (Open Properties Window) -> Driver Tab -> Roll Back Driver)

After rolling back reboot device. Let see if it works.

September 20th, 2014 06:00

What to do to enable the roll back driver button? Does this mean I cannot use this feature? Am I required to use the system restore instead? Actually, I've temporarily fixed this issue by not letting the device sleep and just turn off the display which messes up the battery life. I have to live with this while waiting for the fix.

 https://www.dropbox.com/s/mn01lf3v7uozobi/Screenshot%20%2835%29.png?dl=0

October 21st, 2014 07:00

Hello, I had the same issue and tried all possible solution (reformatting my tablet 6 times) updating drivers, windows update files, etc...nothing helped. At the end I found a similar issue for a Dell venue 11 Pro user who suggested to disable TPM and Bitlocker. As soon as I disabled bitlocker from Win8 control panel and also TPM/Bitlocker from the Bios (Secure boot - Disabled) , the tablet started to wake from sleep without any issue...it's been 1 week now and it has not failed once (it used to get black screen 3-4 times  a day before the change).

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