Sleeping danger

roger64 · 12-16-2017, 09:30 PM

Hi

I like to read custom made PDF in 9×12 format. There is still a small drawback I'd like to correct: when, a little sleepy, my thumb slides slightly on the left just to touch the right side of the screen (somewhere at mid-height), it produces a long press effect and shuts down koreader. It's usually at that time that I wake up.

It's the ebooker equivalent of falling from your bed.

It happened many times (that's life

) and I wonder if there exists an option to disable this dangerous -for me- feature. No long press on the screen to shutdown please.

Frenzie · 12-18-2017, 08:46 AM

Is this something Kindle-specific? Or is it a "slightly" more involved

Menu → Exit → Shutdown

In the latter case I doubt there's anything that can be done. :P

roger64 · 12-18-2017, 07:51 PM

@Frenzie

I have not been precise enough but I can reproduce it at will: when reading a PDF, keep a long press on the right side of the screen, five seconds, twenty seconds, any time. Nothing happens.

But as soon as you take out your finger, you see a word (or part of a word) highlighted and then koreader shuts down. Welcome to kindle.

Alan_S · 12-19-2017, 02:22 PM

It looks to me like crash, not shut down. Long press on a word should just highlight that word, after that dictionary is started. There were some problems with dictionary, I don't know if this is related and how it is with kindle.

Frenzie · 12-22-2017, 05:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan_S

It looks to me like crash, not shut down. Long press on a word should just highlight that word, after that dictionary is started. There were some problems with dictionary, I don't know if this is related and how it is with kindle.

Agreed, sounds like a crash. But no, the dictionary thing is new Kobo-firmware exclusive and it doesn't crash KOReader itself.

There was https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/3241 a couple of months ago. Could that be related?

12-16-2017, 09:30 PM	#1
roger64 Wizard Posts: 2,608 Karma: 3000161 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle PW3 (wifi)	Sleeping danger Hi I like to read custom made PDF in 9×12 format. There is still a small drawback I'd like to correct: when, a little sleepy, my thumb slides slightly on the left just to touch the right side of the screen (somewhere at mid-height), it produces a long press effect and shuts down koreader. It's usually at that time that I wake up. It's the ebooker equivalent of falling from your bed. It happened many times (that's life ) and I wonder if there exists an option to disable this dangerous -for me- feature. No long press on the screen to shutdown please. Last edited by roger64; 12-17-2017 at 08:16 AM. Reason: right side

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12-18-2017, 08:46 AM	#2
Frenzie Wizard Posts: 1,613 Karma: 724945 Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Antwerp Device: Kobo Aura H2O	Is this something Kindle-specific? Or is it a "slightly" more involved Menu → Exit → Shutdown In the latter case I doubt there's anything that can be done. :P

12-18-2017, 07:51 PM	#3
roger64 Wizard Posts: 2,608 Karma: 3000161 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle PW3 (wifi)	@Frenzie I have not been precise enough but I can reproduce it at will: when reading a PDF, keep a long press on the right side of the screen, five seconds, twenty seconds, any time. Nothing happens. But as soon as you take out your finger, you see a word (or part of a word) highlighted and then koreader shuts down. Welcome to kindle.

12-19-2017, 02:22 PM	#4
Alan_S Evangelist Posts: 440 Karma: 1084584 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sisak, Croatia Device: Kobo Aura H2O, Kobo Aura ONE	It looks to me like crash, not shut down. Long press on a word should just highlight that word, after that dictionary is started. There were some problems with dictionary, I don't know if this is related and how it is with kindle.