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View Poll Results: With ComfortLight turned on and low light setting, do you notice colored blotches?
Yes, green blotches from bottom center 20 15.15%
Yes, green blotches from bottom right 22 16.67%
Yes, green blotches from bottom left 18 13.64%
Yes, different location 10 7.58%
No 80 60.61%
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Old 06-14-2018, 06:24 PM   #91
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I sent back 3 units to the same online store, at the end they gave me my money back and didn't want me to buy an aura one anymore.

I feel like focusing on a less problematic model (the inkpad 3 seems to have no problem + it's easier to integrate an alternative reader for pdf, or h2o2 if smaller is fine) is better than planning to sent it back until you find a correct one, if you really want to avoid uneven lighting... (unless they fixed it; I gave up at the fourth unit, and that was months ago)

Good luck!
Thank you for your reply. I won't be purchasing one, I have held out this long so I'm not giving in now. I was mainly wondering how many people were sending them back to Kobo as I know they aren't known for their customer service. I was surprised how some people have been able to return a few of them. I'm hoping they release a version 2 of the Aura One that has less problems. I really wanted one when they first came out, for the larger size and the comfort light, but I'm very sensitive to color changes so I had to rule it out.
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Old 10-19-2018, 02:10 PM   #92
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Got my Aura One yesterday and will be sending it back for a replacement Monday.

Like many others, the one I got have uneven natural light when brightness is low and natural light is high. Not as bad as some of the earlier posters, but enough to deem unacceptable. It's really a shame as everything else about the device is perfect: The normal background light is very good and well distributed, it has the perfect screen size (for me), it's light, surprisingly fast, it's well build - all except the natural light, of course..

Looking forward to see how many replacements I have to go through.. Luckily I bought through a good online store that will take care of the communication with Kobo customer service.
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Old 02-01-2019, 07:50 AM   #93
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I just bought a LE for 250 dollars and can confirm that the issue is still present on those models as well. At 1% backlight and 70% or more natural light setting, the bottom corners turn greenish. Kobo claims its returnable for a year. I hope so, because I live in Israel and have no way to return it to them.

I opened a paypal complaint with Kobo for a partial refund (canada site). Does anyone have experience with that? Do you get good results?
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