Thread: Kobo Aura One - Buy Now or Wait?
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Old 11-16-2016, 07:49 PM   #61
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Poppaea View Post
Is it a hardware problem then? And is the device hardware faulty too? If so I would like to know so I'd be able to sell it then as long as the thing is in high demand. I love the real estate, but I'd like the reader even better, if it were up to par with all the others.
I don't think the sleep issues are a hardware problem with the device. I think there is a design flaw in how the Kobo cover interacts with the device. With that cover, the sensor should have been in the top left corner. Or maybe it is in the materials used for the cover. As the Aura ONE uses capacitive touch, the cover needs to be made of something that doesn't trigger that and blocks detection of a finger pressing on the outside of the cover.

If I'm right, then fixing it in the software is problematic. How do you know the touch is caused by closing the cover rather than someone touching the screen? About the only thing I can think of is to somehow ignore the touches that happened in the last second or so before the sleep sensor is triggered. But you can't actually ignore them as that means not acting on them until the sensor is triggered which means a delay for every tap. So, maybe you have to undo the last couple of taps. But, what if the last was a delete? Of the tap that finished a book?

So, problematic. Possibly impossible to get a good solution.
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