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I will have to work on networking later - but I have once again experienced the weirdness of having my changed settings for paging activation areas switched back to default values.

This happened in the middle of reading a book. I'm sailing along, tapping low to page forward, and suddenly it starts going backwards again. Go to check the 3 values I changed - and they are back at default.

I set them again. Exited the Advanced Settings screen. Go check and they are working when reading a book in KoReader as expected.

I try to exit to KSM. I get a box that says "You have unsaved changes" and I select SAVE. Go all the way out to KSM. Reboot. Power all the way down to be on the safe side. Start back up. Changes are still in Advanced Settings.

This gets written out to a file, correct? I don't understand how it could change in the middle of reading, but this is the 2nd time its happened that way. I wasn't sure the first time - but it definitely stopped working mid-read this time.

Is there some mechanism by which this could revert to default, some timing issue - it doesn't save it unless you actually exit KoReader to KSM, maybe? If I power it down after making the changes, but before exiting to KSM (so that query box asking if I want to save doesn't get started) would that cause the changes to be lost?

I can't see anyway that this should change mid read though. I am perplexed!

EDIT: OK I am even MORE PERPLEXED! I just went in to check settings in Advanced Settings again - and it has reset 2 of the variables to default, the one for paging forward and the one for the menu activation area.

The third changed variable - for paging back - retains the settings I assigned.

This is after setting all 3, testing in a book, rebooting, powering down, and starting back up.

I am changing the other 2 variables YET AGAIN and will exit to trigger the "do you want to save" popup, reboot, power down, and start up again and see what I have then.

OK, once again I have gotten the "save successful" notification, exited, rebooted, powered off, powered back up. Checked in advanced settings and all 3 variables are still set the way I set them.

If this changes again, I think I will have to do a factory reset and start all over, reinstall KSM and KoReader, upload my books again - probably won't be all the same, but I'll try. And see if this nonsense continues.

This is too weird. I cannot imagine how this could be happening.

BTW - I just spent a good long while trying to power this down from the KSM home screen.

It ignores the power button altogether - is that normal? Could not power down using the power button.

Then, after having pressed and held the power button several times trying to power the device down, it appeared to be ignoring or very slow to respond to a tap on the "Power Down" option on the KSM menu.

Tried it again - this time attempting to power down resulted in the device starting up Nickel! I can only guess that it took longer than 20 seconds to process the shutdown request so it did the autostartup thing (defaults to start_nickel after 20 seconds).

I have errands to run, I'm going to have to put this aside for now. This all seems very bizarre ...

Also - in case I hadn't mentioned it - this device was acting wonky before I loaded up KSM and KoReader. I was hoping to solve the wonk by bypassing the need to maintain that database so you can use the factory software - but maybe its hardware wonk and not software wonk. Perhaps the device is Just Plain Bad.