For those of you who might be interested; I have been running the hibernate solution APK for several days and it appears to have resolved the freezing problem with the EE going into hibernation and not coming out without a remove the battery reset.
Kudos to diedertimmers and here is a link to the page with his solution to the hibernation problem:............
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...weredge&page=3
.... a link to the APK, if the link in the article doesn`t work...
http://www.ratshome.net/android/poweredge.html
I hope it helps those that need it........
Good luck