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Originally Posted by tshering

Are you sure you selected "save and exit" rather than "cancel and exit"?

Posolutely. The setting is still correctly set to false after I go in to configure and make the change, if I go back in and check it.

Well, and now that I go check it again after a powerdown, it is still set correctly.

This is not the first time I've had settings become unsaved. It happened when I first registered the device. I set it to not display the cover, to have a plain screen, in the factory software settings. When I went to sleep, it was displaying a blank screen. When I woke up, it was displaying the book cover. When I went into settings to check that, the device totally reset itself and made me go through the registration process again from scratch.

I was told that was likely due to corrupted database. It is mostly because of the complicated slow processing and the potential for future corruption of that database that I started looking for a way to never boot the factory software up again. That, and the fact that the touch screen was so wonky and page turns were so slow.

I guess the power consumption of the timer is negligible (especially since it runs for 20 secs), and there is no shortage of resources at that point. The purpose that nickel is automatically started is that it already happened that after a new firmware release, KSM became unresponsive to any touch and needed a new touch driver, so that it was impossible to do any selections. In such a case it comes handy if nickel starts automatically so that you can connect to the pc and uninstall KSM or fix it. I would rather increase the value for KsmAutoselectafter. If you really want to disable it, remove ksmAutoselectoption via "configure". But be aware of the dangere!

I thought there was another way around such an eventuality, which hopefully would be rather unlikely to reoccur in the future.

Is this not the case?

Also, won't a factory reset take care of the problem?

Admittedly, I'll lose books and history - but since I keep EVERYTHING in Calibre anyway, its not like I've actually lost anything REALLY.

(re Koreader settings in KSM)
Try to select "add item".

Yes, I see various variables there. Its just I have no idea what they mean or do.

I never tried to set the sleep-after time myself (and I do not have my reader at hand), but Koreader has a huge configuration menu. Did you try it?

Of course I have. I'm sorry if you are losing patience with me - but that is precisely the problem. KoReader has a HUGE configuration menu, which is not documented anywhere I can find. In fact it has lots of menus and I'm not sure exactly what the "configuration menu" is or where it is to be found.

There are all those flags in Advanced Settings, for one thing, 6 pages of flags, most of which are mysterious to me and some of which (no idea which ones, either) can apparently crash the entire device if I set them incorrectly. I don't find anything in there that seems to relate to auto sleeping or auto power down, either one.

There is something called KOBO_SCREEN_SAVER but its set to an empty text string. I have no idea what that is supposed to do or how it should work.

KSM 07 does not have a sleep feature. As for drawing the power-off screen of course that needs power. No power is needed however to maintain the screen after it has been drawn.

I did not realize that. I assumed the screen has to draw some charge, if only a trickle, to maintain whatever is drawn on the display. I have no idea how e-ink works. I do know that my Kindle Keyboard lasted a lot longer on battery, for whatever reason, if I fully powered it down rather than leaving it sit with the sleep screen showing. I had attributed that to a need to keep the screen powered up at some level. Apparently that is not the case.

Thanks.