Thread: Battery experience with firmware v4.1.7729
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Old 10-17-2016, 09:16 PM   #62
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Originally Posted by jiminrussell View Post
But the screen is capacitive touch isn't it, an inanimate object like the cover shouldn't trigger a touch event should it? And yet it seems to do just that.

I find if I let the bottom right part of the cover touch the screen first it goes to sleep fine but if I just flip it closed without paying attention to what part touches the screen first I some times end up with selected text or on a different page, usually forward one page but sometimes back a page, but not seeing the large battery drain some others are seeing (at least not so far since updating to 4.1.7729).
This is the sort of thing I am thinking of. If something is touching the screen and triggering an action when the sleep is triggered, it might be interfering with the sleep. This happened with an old firmware on the other devices.

For the capacitive touch, as you can use a stylus, it doesn't have to be a body part doing the touch. And it can take affect through other material. So, if the wrong material was used in the cover, or it was to thin, then touching the cover before the touch is disabled, could trigger a touch action.
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