[franklekens]

Initially I had the Aura One without sleepcover. I noticed that when I put it down, it sometimes seemed to wake up spontaneously, more or less at random. Someone here suggested this was due to the "automatically sleep & wake up" feature being turned on, which is intended for use with the sleepcover. This proved correct: when I turned it off, the spontaneous awakenings no longer occurred.

Now I have a sleepcover, so I switched this feature back on. Within a day my battery was drained overnight. What gives? I switched the sleepcover function off: battery life was normal again. I switched it back on: once more the battery was drained overnight.

What seems to happen is that the sleepcover function is too sensitive or is just plain off. So the device may power off if you close the sleepcover, but the slightest touch (e.g. if you're carrying the device around) or maybe the vicinity of metal or another magnet may set it off, and the device wakes up while the cover is closed. Because I've opened it to find menu's (e.g. for font size) opened that I definitely hadn't opened myself. Unless I've started sleepwalking since I have this device.

(You may say: well don't keep other magnets in the vicinity! Or don't walk with the device when it wants to sleep! But my AuraHD never had this problem. That sleepcover worked just fine.)

I wonder if it's related that the touchscreen is often wrong. E.g. if I press the reading speed &c symbol, often the screen thinks I've pressed the rightmost symbol (for annotations &c). Often when I press the little lamp, the device thinks I've pressed the wifi symbol.

Would this be something they can fix with better firmware, or is it a hardware limitation?

Basically now the sleepcover is useless. I keep it only because it offers some protection and makes it easier to hold the device with one hand (at least with my right hand, not with my left, obviously).

Anybody else notice the same problem?

I really love the device for its screen size, for which there seem few alternatives. (Also it's my first device with a flush screen, which is nice.)
But really that sleep cover ought to work better. It's annoying to still have to switch it on and off manually all the time.