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Originally Posted by rogerinnyc
I actively dislike the power button. It's not a deal breaker, but it's very hard to press and tell whether you activated it or not.
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I agree. There is no satisfying click, there is no anything. You can't even tell if you've pressed it or not.
And in the dark, it's impossible. You can't go by pure feel. Most of the time I'm just pressing down on it, not too sure if I've even pressed it or for how long, and it resets the device.
Which brings me to:
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Originally Posted by pcnnnn
- IIRC, when I first got the device, I can turn it on/off without having to swipe. After patching the firmware I need to swipe. Too lazy to double check by reseting.
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Yes, the swipe was introduced either in the 4.10 or 4.11 firmware.
With the power button issue above, it becomes even worse to use at night in the pitch black.
Before, I would click the power button, and BOOM, the screen would light up and already be on the home page/in the book. You could use the left-edge to swipe brightness higher (or know the ~location of the brightness menu. I was able to adjust brightness in the dark).
Now, you get this awkward "Swipe to Unlock" screen.
Another issue is if you had your book at 0% Brightness previously, the "Swipe to Unlock" screen doesn't light up. So I had no way of even
seeing if I was in the normal "sleep screen" or "Swipe to Unlock" screen.
About 5/10 times since I've gotten the Swipe to Unlock screen, I've accidentally reset the device instead:
- Press power button
- Unsure if I pressed it or held it long enough
- ... Waiting for Swipe to Unlock to pop up...
- Resets instead
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Originally Posted by rogerinnyc
The auto-rotation lags a bit when switching hands, but not badly. More annoyingly, often when I turn on the device, the text is upside down in terms of the orientation in which I'm holding it and I have to do a turn and back to get it to correct.
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Yes, this is also an issue when reading on my side:
Device is locked in
Portait mode but the device laying on edge with fat side down/up.
While I was making a few Notes/Highlights the past few nights:
- My text would be right-side-up.
- Press/hold on a word. Go into Notes.
- Typing box + keyboard in Notes is upside down.
- I flip the Kobo so everything rotates correctly.
- Type in my note.
- Get back into book, everything is upside down.
- Have to flip Kobo Up/Down again, so everything is right-side-up.
I really wish there was a
Stay in this orientation toggle and do not rotate at all.
Like on Android, you can enable/disable any of the degrees individually (0° + 90° + 180° + 270°).
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Originally Posted by rogerinnyc
I do have a very mild white strip on the button side -- I would never have noticed it absent the comments on the forum. For me, it is slightly more pronounced the higher my backlight setting, but it is not distracting and almost exactly matches my right margin. I may have a better unit than others -- I definitely would not return mine on account of this attribute.
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Could you take a picture?
What "Natural Color"/Brightness settings are you using as well?
Are you using this mostly in daytime?
And I agree the strip "almost exactly matches the right margin" setting. I have my
Margin setting 1 or 2 clicks away from the lowest, and it is about the same thickness.
And like I mentioned in a previous post, when I moved the fat side on my left, it hasn't really bothered me while reading at all.