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Originally Posted by samhy
You know what? Trying to fail, of sorts, on purpose is not an easy thing, I tell you 
More seriously, I tried:
- put the Mini in sleeping mode w/ slider, then drop a handkerchief on the screen just after the cover image appeared,
- put the Mini in sleeping mode w/slider, then drop a handkerchief on the screen while the cover image is appearing,
- put the Mini in sleeping mode w/slider, then drop a handkerchief on the screen while the cover image is appearing and let all of them like that for 13 hours, the sleepcover setting being on but the cover remaining fully open during the test.
So far, no battery drain, just dust on the screen.
I'll try tonight to wait for the Mini to go back to sleep by itself (waking it but not touching the screen). Other than that, I don't see what else I can do. Any idea. |
Seems like an extremely thorough testing to me, and exactly what I do when I do get battery drain. If you ask me, it is now clear that the Mini does not have this problem. Thank you a million Samhy, for taking the time to test this for us and taking an interest.
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Originally Posted by VelvetElvis
Testing that now.  |
Heehee! I've always wanted an excuse to use that fun emoticon. Yay for you for finding one
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Originally Posted by VelvetElvis
Is the consensus that anything touching the cover, once properly asleep, should not make a difference? I just confirmed that the pocket flap of this SkinDigital does indeed touch the screen when closed.
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Yes, I'm using the same cover as I did when I had the battery drain (so the one that touches the screen), and if I wait for proper deep sleep before I put the Glo in the sleeve, the battery is fine with the sleeve touching the screen.
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Originally Posted by samhy
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  |
Yep, I completely agree
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Originally Posted by samhy
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.
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Interesting... I would expect a battery drain with that for a Glo/new Touch – and not for the Mini.
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Originally Posted by samhy
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 ). |
Hmmm... if we'd go on the differences, it should be something both the new Touch and Glo have but the Mini doesn't... the µSD slot? I can hardly imagine that causing IR beam shutdown failure... Plus, the old Touch also has these things but doesn't have the IR beam shutdown failure. I don't know any differences between old Touch and newTouch/Glo...
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Originally Posted by samhy
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. |
Not at all, your post was extremely fair and very clear