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Originally Posted by screwballl
If it is sitting in the backpack and getting jostled around, and various things pushing on the cover which is pushing random buttons, then it is most likely the movement, NOT the case causing these problems.
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That's about what I hypothesized when I first read about it, but it was not yet happenning to me.
My K3 gets jostled in my backpack on transit every day, just as it has since I got it back at the end of August. After a few months, it gradually rebooted, by itself, more and more. I tried keeping it fully charged, and the frequency of reboots increased.
I am "from Missouri" and so was skeptical when I first read that the case was the problem. After case problems in the K2 era, surely, I thought, the K3 case would have been well-tested before shipment. But careful repeated experiments have shown that, for my unit, the pattern is overwhelmingly obvious. Keeping the Kindle unhooked, it is fine. Hook up the case, and it will reboot within the hour.
As for what explains this, I like the hypothesis that it has to do with static electricity buildup, with the lighted case not having the problem due to a different electrical resistance between the hooks. But this is unproven.