Koreader Refuses to Wake Up

[pgilster]

I love Koreader, but lately I can't get it to wake up when I open my Forma's cover. It's the standard Kobo cover. I keep fiddling with settings but to no avail. Can anyone tell me what switch to throw to get Koreader to come alive after being asleep overnight? Thanks.

[Ken Maltby]

As I remember it, there can be separate timers set for how long a period of inactivity triggers sleep and poweroff. Perhaps the sleep allows the poweroff timer to run?

Luck;
Ken

[Frenzie]

Although at least by default there'll be a message saying what's what.

[pgilster]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

As I remember it, there can be separate timers set for how long a period of inactivity triggers sleep and poweroff. Perhaps the sleep allows the poweroff timer to run?

I think you're right, Ken. At least I think that's what's happening. When I try to turn off the option to do a complete shutdown, the software seems to ignore my unchecking of the box, and puts the checkmark right back in it next time. Somehow my changes aren't being save

[Frenzie]

Pardon, what is it you do exactly?

[pgilster]

Originally Posted by Frenzie

Pardon, what is it you do exactly?

Hard to explain, because the Koreader menus are complicated to navigate through, though obviously powerful. What I was doing was going to the Device item on the menus, clicking on it to reveal the options "Autosuspend timeout" and "Autoshutdown timeout". I thought they might have been causing my device to fail to come to life when I opened the Kobo cover. And even when I removed the checkmarks by these items, they always were back when I would return to that menu.

Oddly, they are still there this morning, but this morning the device woke up exactly as advertised. The only difference was that I changed the wakeup from happening on a tap to happening after 15 seconds. And that seems to have worked.

[NiLuJe]

That all sounds to me like you'd actually set a low-ish auto shutdown, it did just that, and you failed to notice the "Powered off" tag in the top right corner of the sleep screen .

Barring that, SleepCover magnet issues are always a great source of confusion .

[pgilster]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

That all sounds to me like you'd actually set a low-ish auto shutdown, it did just that, and you failed to notice the "Powered off" tag in the top right corner of the sleep screen .

Barring that, SleepCover magnet issues are always a great source of confusion .

No, I saw the Powered Off tag. But I have been trying to get it not to shut down; I simply want the Forma to go to sleep, so I don't have to use that infernal power button to wake it back up. I'll keep exploring the menus to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Other than that, Koreader has been a treasure.

[pazos]

The same plugin handles suspend and poweroff. You cannot enable one without enabling the other.

So you have two options:

1. Disable the plugin entirely and send your device to sleep manually or with a cover.
2. Enable the plugin and setup the number of hours before shutdown to a high number. Default is 72h, which is a lot if you often use your ereader, but you can raise the hour to say a week (168).

If you go with 2. remember that a long press on buttons will increment/decrement the counter 24h, instead of tapping 24x the button.

[pgilster]

Originally Posted by pazos

The same plugin handles suspend and poweroff. You cannot enable one without enabling the other.

So you have two options:

1. Disable the plugin entirely and send your device to sleep manually or with a cover.
2. Enable the plugin and setup the number of hours before shutdown to a high number. Default is 72h, which is a lot if you often use your ereader, but you can raise the hour to say a week (168).

If you go with 2. remember that a long press on buttons will increment/decrement the counter 24h, instead of tapping 24x the button.

Good advice! Thanks. I'll give #2 a try.