Glo Disable Glo HD Brightness Gesture?

[Blossom]

Please tell me there is a way to do this? My Kobo Glo HD is patched. I keep turning the light off when I set the reader down.

The touch screen is so sensitive. It will be just laying on my pillow and start turning pages due to some bed movement. Sometimes just a tap will cause jumping ahead several pages.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Please tell me there is a way to do this? My Kobo Glo HD is patched. I keep turning the light off when I set the reader down.

The touch screen is so sensitive. It will be just laying on my pillow and start turning pages due to some bed movement. Sometimes just a tap will cause jumping ahead several pages.

Hmmm.... a sleepcover? Added protection as well. I have to ask it it was face up or face down on your pillow. Given that it uses an infra-red touch screen, it hard to see how bed movement would trigger a touch event unless it was face down on the pillow. Generally, I've found a swipe to be more reliable than a tap when moving between pages.

[frostschutz]

Originally Posted by Blossom

The touch screen is so sensitive. It will be just laying on my pillow and start turning pages due to some bed movement.

Unless you have a bed sheet or something actually "touching" the screen itself, this is not supposed to happen... it's only supposed to react when you actually touch something. I can hold my reader in one hand and move it any which way even give it a shake without any reaction of the screen.

If that's different for you maybe check for dirt/dust/hairs around the screen edges and if there is nothing, maybe try to replace the device if you only bought it recently...

I'm not sure if there is a patch for the brightness gesture.

[shalym]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Please tell me there is a way to do this? My Kobo Glo HD is patched. I keep turning the light off when I set the reader down.

The touch screen is so sensitive. It will be just laying on my pillow and start turning pages due to some bed movement. Sometimes just a tap will cause jumping ahead several pages.

This happens to me, as well, with my Aura HD. I always blamed it on the IR touch.

Shari

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Hmmm.... a sleepcover? Added protection as well. I have to ask it it was face up or face down on your pillow. Given that it uses an infra-red touch screen, it hard to see how bed movement would trigger a touch event unless it was face down on the pillow. Generally, I've found a swipe to be more reliable than a tap when moving between pages.

A tap is easier with my tiny hands. No it's not face down and it's in a cover but I keep it open when reading..

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[Blossom]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

Unless you have a bed sheet or something actually "touching" the screen itself, this is not supposed to happen... it's only supposed to react when you actually touch something. I can hold my reader in one hand and move it any which way even give it a shake without any reaction of the screen.

If that's different for you maybe check for dirt/dust/hairs around the screen edges and if there is nothing, maybe try to replace the device if you only bought it recently...

I'm not sure if there is a patch for the brightness gesture.

Nothing is touching it. I can also shake and move the reader without a issue it's when I set it down my left hand turns off the brightness. The page turning happens only when its laying flat on my pillow and the cat or I move the bed. It's a twin size bed. Hubby and I have gone back to 50s sitcom sleeping arrangements.

Originally Posted by shalym

This happens to me, as well, with my Aura HD. I always blamed it on the IR touch.

Shari

All my other devices are capacitive touch so IR is new to me. I wonder if air from the air conditioner could cause it? I don't know enough about IR screens.

I'm not too concern though but if I could just disable the brightness gesture. It would eliminate a major annoyance.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Nothing is touching it. I can also shake and move the reader without a issue it's when I set it down my left hand turns off the brightness. The page turning happens only when its laying flat on my pillow and the cat or I move the bed. It's a twin size bed. Hubby and I have gone back to 50s sitcom sleeping arrangements.

All my other devices are capacitive touch so IR is new to me. I wonder if air from the air conditioner could cause it? I don't know enough about IR screens.

Air can't turn the pages. It's nothing to do with pressure on the screen - the so-called 'touch' detection requires that the IR beams just above the screen be interrupted. I suggest what others have suggested: clean the screen thoroughly, and if you still get phantom page turns with it face up and no opaque items anywhere near the screen (including cats and their tails), exchange the device.

It's hard to tell what's happening with the light change when you set the reader down, without knowing exactly how you do that and how your hand is positioned. I am guessing that the cover is open, your thumb is on/near the left bezel, and it inadvertently near-contacts the screen at the left, but you will be better placed to assess that unless you post video or something.

[robko]

Originally Posted by meeera

Air can't turn the pages. It's nothing to do with pressure on the screen - the so-called 'touch' detection requires that the IR beams just above the screen be interrupted. I suggest what others have suggested: clean the screen thoroughly, and if you still get phantom page turns with it face up and no opaque items anywhere near the screen (including cats and their tails), exchange the device.

This. Cat hairs on the pillow that are curling up and over when you set it down maybe (would explain why you only see it on the pillow)?

[Cinisajoy]

I once had a fly turn the page on my kindle.
But the fly landed on the screen.

[MacEachaidh]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

Unless you have a bed sheet or something actually "touching" the screen itself, this is not supposed to happen... it's only supposed to react when you actually touch something.

It's happened with mine on occasion, and I keep my bezels scrupulously clean. I find the IR "zone" can extend a centimetre or a little more vertically from the screen itself, and that zone being disrupted -- whether by a finger or a fold of the bedsheet -- is all it takes for the page to be turned. Or, as Blossom also seems to be experiencing, for the light level to shift.

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

I once had a fly turn the page on my kindle.
But the fly landed on the screen.

That actually happened to me last night. The only light in the room was my Kobo and the midge (it was barely visible) kept landing on my screen. I couldn't get rid of it

[filmo]

I never had this page turning bug with my old Kobo Wifi only touch e-readers seem to have it. Do capacitive touch e-readers have this bug?

[dordale]

Originally Posted by filmo

I never had this page turning bug with my old Kobo Wifi only touch e-readers seem to have it. Do capacitive touch e-readers have this bug?

Yes--the capacitive touch screen techonology works quite a bit differently than infra-red touch screen technology. With infra-red, the touch screen reacts to a break in the infra-red beams of light, thus any type of object that breaks the beam will trigger the sensors. With capacitive technology, the screen reacts to the transfer of small amounts of electrical capacity when touched. Thus, you can use an IR screen with gloves but not a capacitive screen (unless you have gloves specifically designed for capacitive screens).

[Blossom]

I don't know if this is because of the 4x new firmware or a new code discovery or what... but you can now disable the brightness gesture.

See this post here on how to do that
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...1&postcount=11


I am so happy!!!

[__taori__]

Great, thank you for the hint!