Thread: Mini Factory Reset option disabled on Kobo Mini
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Old 07-16-2013, 01:05 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by GeoffR View Post
Unfortunately the slideshow feature is probably not useful after all. Although it runs when I put the dvice into sleep mode, it is not actually running in sleep mode but has instead woken the device up, i.e. the touch screen is active.
That makes sense for a shop demo. Device would be hooked up to a power supply anyway, and displaying advertisements until someone picks it up. At that point it reverts to a normal operation until it is left alone, which causes it to go back into slideshow mode again.

If you want to use the device as some sort of a photo frame then you should expect to have it on a power supply anyway. Even with touch disabled to save battery, it still has to wake up relatively frequently to change the photo (e.g. 2 to 5 minutes, otherwise what's the point). However, touch screen does not necessarily need to work in the same mode. It is IR touch screen, so could have only some IR LEDs lit up infrequently to detect a touch anywhere on the screen -- it does not need to have the touch screen going full throttle as it doesn't care about detecting precisely where the touch is, only that a touch happened somewhere on the screen. I guess the only way to know for sure would be to check with a current meter.
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