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Old 06-30-2011, 10:03 AM   #1
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Dead (non-responsive) spots?

I've found that the Kobo sits nicely in my left hand, with my pinky supporting the bottom, and my ring finger tapping the very bottom right corner of the screen.

Lately tapping the very bottom right right like I always do gets me a page turn 1 in 5 times, if I'm lucky. It's unbelievably frustrating, and I'm going to exchange the Kobo this weekend for a new one, unless someone knows what might be going wrong?
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Old 06-30-2011, 10:07 AM   #2
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I've found that the Kobo sits nicely in my left hand, with my pinky supporting the bottom, and my ring finger tapping the very bottom right corner of the screen.

Lately tapping the very bottom right right like I always do gets me a page turn 1 in 5 times, if I'm lucky. It's unbelievably frustrating, and I'm going to exchange the Kobo this weekend for a new one, unless someone knows what might be going wrong?
I noticed the same thing. I thought it was just me getting confused about where I was tapping. It started happening a few days after I bought it a couple of weeks ago. I haven't exchanged mine yet, I might do it this weekend.
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Old 06-30-2011, 10:37 AM   #3
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That might be an issue with the firmware not the unit itself. I would suggest contacting Support and seeing how they weigh in on the issue. That said, its your call on handling it but i know the color you want or orgianlly chose may not be available.


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Old 06-30-2011, 11:36 AM   #4
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I've found the same thing. It's a band across the screen that doesn't respond, almost at the bottom of the screen. I took it back and exchanged it, only to find that the replacement unit is exactly the same. Next stop -- contacting Support, I guess.
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Old 06-30-2011, 06:37 PM   #5
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Is it possible some dust or crumbs or something is blocking the infrared sensors that run all around the edge of the screen?
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Old 06-30-2011, 07:53 PM   #6
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I had the same problem on my first Kobo Touch. I discovered while trying to enter a website into the browser that certain letters, all in a column, didn't work. I ended up having to exchange mine.
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Old 07-01-2011, 07:51 AM   #7
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I don't think it's dust -- two units in a row with the identical problem argue against that, and it looks pretty clean under the bezel. Someone elsewhere suggested that it might be a software problem. Anyway, I've handed it over to the support people to see if they know what's going on.
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Old 07-01-2011, 10:00 AM   #8
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When I emailed support about the issue, their response was to return it.
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Old 07-01-2011, 10:02 AM   #9
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Ah -- interesting. I wonder if they're worried now that too many might be sent back, so they're trying delaying tactics?
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Old 07-01-2011, 11:50 AM   #10
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I notice that I need a certain "amount of pressure" with my finger - otherwise the Kobo doesn't change.
Being a totally "religious Kobo believer" my theory is that the designers wanted us, users, to not just "touch" to switch pages, but to develop "the" sense that is needed to actually activate the page turn mechanism and other functions.
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Old 07-01-2011, 12:31 PM   #11
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I find that for almost all of the screen it only needs a very light touch, presumably because the IR sensors don't need any pressure.

Your post stimulated me to do some more testing, revealing that there's something very curious about this particular dead band (please bear in mind that I'm very new to this device, so what I'm writing here may eventually turn out to be nonsense).

Normally, if you hold your finger on, say, the right-hand side of the screen and you then touch anywhere else on the screen with a second finger, the unit pages forward. In other words, the first "down" in any sequence seems to determine the nature of the action, and the unit ignores any subsequent "downs", but acts on any subsequent "ups", until it detects an "up" at the same location on the screen as the original "down".

If I'm holding a finger somewhere other than in the dead band on my unit (i.e. the first "down" is outside the dead band), it will respond to subsequent touches even within the dead band. Conversely, if I hold my finger within the dead band (i.e. the first "down" is within the dead band), the unit ignores any touches anywhere else on the screen. So it certainly looks as if it's detecting touches within the dead band, but it's processing these events differently from touches elsewhere on the screen.

All of which suggests that jackastor is quite right, and that there's a firmware issue here.
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Old 07-06-2011, 09:59 PM   #12
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I've noticed the same dead zone near the bottom of the screen. I've been able to reproduce the same tests that HPG did so hopefully it's only firmware related. The dead zone is rather irritating. I can consistently tap and/or swipe within the zone with no reaction from the device. Could somebody from Kobo comment on whether or not this might be fixable?
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Old 07-06-2011, 10:17 PM   #13
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If it runs the length or width of the screen then you have an issue with the sensors. Please contact Kobo customer support.
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Old 07-06-2011, 10:25 PM   #14
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Thanks for the quick response
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If the screen dead zones were firmware related then shouldn't all KT's running that version of the firmware have the dead zone? And if that was the case there would be many more complaints about dead zones...
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