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I have had a Gecko Slimfit cover for some time and really liked it. There was a manufacturing problem though with the outer cover starting to peel off at the corners. Gecko replaced the cover with a new one - very good so far.
After a few weeks I noticed the back-light would come on and go off randomly and the button was stuck. I removed the Glo from its case and the problem went away for some time. It seems that the way the cover is fixed can exert stress on the case at the top and this pinches the surround for the light button meaning it is partly depressed and operates as the case flexes slightly.
This was a bit of an annoyance and easily solved by removing the Glo from its case until I powered it down. When I powered up again the light switch was depressed and the Glo went through a "restore" cycle. The downside of this was that the latest firmware was downloaded as part of the setup process and this was incompatible with Calibre 1.48 that I am running on Win XP.
I have had to find and install a copy of V1.28 firmware so I can use Calibre and re-install about 800 books onto the Glo together with their shelving and status. About three days work to get back to where I was.
I never though that a cover could cause all these problems !
Despite all that I do like the Gecko cover, but I now have an image of my Glo's SD card.
BobC
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