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Originally Posted by davidfor
The touching the screen questions started a few weeks ago due to an accident by me. I left my Glo overnight and found it hadn't turned off. The reason was that I left it face down on some paper that had a corner turned up to touch the screen. The battery drain was roughly what has been reported by people with the "bad" devices.
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Thanks, David. I remenber the post, but had forgotten the specifics.
We now seem to have enough information to hypothesise that, for some reason, the IR sensor control loop on later Glo/Touch models overrides or otherwise interferes with the power control loop in a way that uses an order of magnitude more power than in normal use (assuming three days in the "abnormal" state and a nominal 42 days in "normal" use). This does not seem to be the case in the older Touch models; we have no information regarding Mini models.
The work around for this problem is to ensure that nothing touches the screen during the shutdown/sleep process. The safest way to do this is to use the switch and wait until the screen shows that it is sleeping/powered off.
There are covers on the market which are more likely to make the problem exhibit, by being closely fitting (such as Mrs_Often's), or having a pocket, and thereby touching the screen.
Have I summarised things sufficiently?
