Oh no! SeeSee beat me to it! If only I hadn't gone away for a couple of days
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Originally Posted by SeeSee
Hi Folks, I think the issue occurs when something touches the screen on a sleeping [device]…
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This is exactly what's happening. Remember my crap 3 day battery life? Well, I've been sleeping my Glo outside of its sleeve since Wednesday and reading more than 5 hours a day (it is now Sunday) and the battery is at 84%.
(VelvetElvis, that's why I asked to know about the case you were using.)
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Originally Posted by Peakcrew
Indeed, I'd go a bit further and suggest sleeping them with the screen upwards to test.
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Yep that's what I've been doing.
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Originally Posted by Peakcrew
If I read SeeSee's comment properly, there also semmed to be a difference with the sleepcover setting on or off - is that right?
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No, I've tested both settings before. Battery drain in sleep mode is not influenced by the sleep cover setting. Nor with magnets in covers either. I have a Kindle sleeve without any magnets.
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Originally Posted by TechniSol
I'm going way out on a limb here, like usual, but perhaps if something is touching the screen(Clarification for the terminally pickyune: not necessarily touching, but interrupting the IR beams like a touch would) while the reader has yet to fully power off, the Neonode IR hardware is left powered up because it is detecting an interruption of the beams while the processor shuts down? I'm not sure if the Neonode chip is controlling the IR emitters directly? This might explain why units seem to sleep, but lose power while appearing to be powered down.
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Huh ingesting thought. I think it strange that the IR beams would be left on and listening for interruption during sleep mode. So perhaps you're right: IR breams switch off in sleep mode, but if they're interrupted before sleep mode is fully functional stuff gets messed up. If so, it would mean the battery would work fine even in the cases that touch the screens, as long as you wait a bit before closing the case or putting the device in its sleeve to be sure it's really sleeping...