[samhy]

Originally Posted by samhy

Note: I can turn pages with the handkerchief, thus I think it makes a valid thing to put on the screen while being gentle enough for not scratching it or something.

First regarding the handkerchief and the IR detectors, I previously said that. But I'll try one more time with something else.

Originally Posted by John F

Verify that the handkerchief trips the sensors. If it does, drop the handkerchief on the screen, then slide the slider to put it to sleep.

Originally Posted by Peakcrew

As John says - make sure that whatever you use actually makes a page turn. If it does, leave it on the screen whilst you put it to sleep with the switch or let it automatically go to sleep.

Thank you John F and Peakcrew for your ideas, but I think they are testing something entirely different, if I understand well. For me it's like using a computer to download something and let the screensaver appears. Obviously, the download is still going on even if you can't see it, unless you set your computer to turn everything off when the screensaver is on. And so far, no one told one way or another what the Kobo devices are supposed to do if when they are synchronizing, for example, the user decides to push the slider.

Originally Posted by Mrs_Often

Hmm. Actually, I've been discussing
- A Glo
- Manual sleep mode with slider (no sleep cover)
- IR beams interrupted when putting Glo into sleeve before it fully sleeps
- Gives lots of ridiculous battery drain
- Is solved by waiting after sleeping Glo manually before putting Glo into sleeve...

I've been doing my tests along what Mrs_Often and presumably others have been saying earlier. For me, it has always been: does something touching the screen in the very first seconds after having trigger a sleep mode can drain the battery? The idea behind that being that full sleep mode takes longer than expected or that the IR detectors are the last part of hardware to be shut down or ...

Mrs_Often's case (no pun intended) is very telling for me. She has a cover, but it's not a sleepcover. So she always triggers the sleep mode by using the slider, then she closes the case and yet during that short time something is happening

So for last night test, I let the Mini go back to sleep by itself (one minute without touching the screen just after waking it). When the screen started to turn blank before the cover image appeared I put the handkerchief and I have no battery drain to report.
I'll make one last try and I'll be using something different to put on the screen.
Keep in mind that hardware-wise, the Mini is the most basic of the three Kobo devices: no SD card slot, no light, no button in front as the Touch can have. I don't know if that has anything to do with my inability to drain the battery very fast (which is great for me ).

Last thing, if this post is all over the place or feels a little bit rude to someone, bear in mind that's it's not easy for me to explain all those things in English Thank you.