[chandravadans]

Originally Posted by tshering

Your case is however similar to theirs as the device doesn't seem to freeze if it is kept busy. Cf. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=182 and https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=185. Maybe you could try this too. It will not really help you with koreader, but it might confirm that it helps keeping the device somehow busy and maybe someone will be able to figure out what is going wrong.

The fix works, thanks!

But I'm a little concerned about the (bad) effect on the display. I'd read somewhere that e-ink displays aren't that great at refreshing constantly, and can get worn out. I'll dig deeper and let you know if that's actually true.

Was curious, does the device have to stay busy displaying something on the screen? Or does having a script running in the background also do the trick? That should definitely take some pressure off the display.

Again,

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Turns out, it does work. Invoke a script that runs in an infinite loop in the background when startmenu starts, and kill it when startmenu ends. It doesn't necessarily have to print anything on the display, thereby (potentially) saving it. Tried the same for koreader, and it worked.