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Originally Posted by infosix
Hi,
I used my Kobo H2O for about 1 year and constantly have problem of freezing screen. It happen once every night after few minutes of reading, so I have to shut down the reader and to reopen it. Very unpleasant procedure for a reader of this price.
H2O seems to have more problem with epub format than it has with Kebub, but even with Kepub my reader freeze, from time to time. The problem seems also to be linked with annotations of texts (a mess on any KOBO reader). I already have a Sony PR3 for three years now and never experience such problems. I think KOBO devices are buggy and I would not recommended to anybody to buy one. 
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I've exactly had this problem. And I've seen several others on this forum also post about this issue. You're not alone, and you can safely ignore the previous posts on this thread.
I've determined precisely what causes this bug: it only happens if you quickly take it in and out of sleep in a very short amount of time. That it is to say put to sleep -> wake up -> put to sleep -> wake up. That causes the software to freeze so that the screen becomes unresponsive. The power button still works however. Rebooting the reader by a long press of the power button will unfreeze it.
Some posters have said that doing a factory reset has resolved this issue, but other posters have found that to not work. It's worth trying. I personally don't like the idea of recopying my entire calibre library over again, so I've put off trying this solution.
Understanding how the bug is triggered, it was easy to nearly eliminate this bug by just being careful. I only have it happen to me once every two or three weeks. It doesn't seem worth replacing the reader as defective. I honestly have to reboot my smart phone more frequently.
One last note: I don't have this issue on the Kobo Glo HD.