Sometime on Friday, the light in my Glo stopped working.
I was reading in bed (very) late Thursday night using the light. On Friday night when I went to bed, I opened the cover and the light didn't come on. After trying a few things, I had to give up and read with the room light on. Very barbaric!
The only unusual thing I can think of that happened in between was that when I went to read on the train Friday morning, the Glo wouldn't respond. It showed the sleep screen and I had to use the pinhole to reset it and get it going. When it did, it had about 25% battery. As I had it connected for a while the night before, I put battery drain down to whatever caused the hang was actually drawing a lot of power. While reading Friday, I didn't notice if the light was working, but it was always in a well lit room. Until I went to bed.
The only other thing that happened was that I lost my stored WiFi details. That probably happened with the hang, but I don't know for sure.
It doesn't appear to be the button. When I press it, the light icon toggles. And the brightness control can be displayed. It "works". Or at least it changes the level and stores it.
I have tried a few things over the weekend:
- Power off and on - the first thing I tried and done many times.
- Connected to the PC a few times.
- Enabled telnet and had a little wonder around the files on the rootfs. Couldn't see anything, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for.
- Reapplied firmware 3.12.0.
- Factory reset.
- Pulled the back off and checked the cables and they seemed OK. I haven't tried to access the front of the screen or where the LEDs are.
That's all I can think of to try. Anyone have any suggestions?* I probably won't get a chance to pull it apart properly until next weekend, though if someone has a good suggestion of something to look for, I might do it earlier.
At two years and one month old, it's well past warranty.
* Yes, "Buy an Aura H2O"** is the obvious one. I'm not sure if my wife will believe the Glo broke less than two weeks before the H2O finally becomes available down here.
** And don't bother with "Buy a Kindle". It's not going to happen.
I was reading in bed (very) late Thursday night using the light. On Friday night when I went to bed, I opened the cover and the light didn't come on. After trying a few things, I had to give up and read with the room light on. Very barbaric!
The only unusual thing I can think of that happened in between was that when I went to read on the train Friday morning, the Glo wouldn't respond. It showed the sleep screen and I had to use the pinhole to reset it and get it going. When it did, it had about 25% battery. As I had it connected for a while the night before, I put battery drain down to whatever caused the hang was actually drawing a lot of power. While reading Friday, I didn't notice if the light was working, but it was always in a well lit room. Until I went to bed.
The only other thing that happened was that I lost my stored WiFi details. That probably happened with the hang, but I don't know for sure.
It doesn't appear to be the button. When I press it, the light icon toggles. And the brightness control can be displayed. It "works". Or at least it changes the level and stores it.
I have tried a few things over the weekend:
- Power off and on - the first thing I tried and done many times.
- Connected to the PC a few times.
- Enabled telnet and had a little wonder around the files on the rootfs. Couldn't see anything, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for.
- Reapplied firmware 3.12.0.
- Factory reset.
- Pulled the back off and checked the cables and they seemed OK. I haven't tried to access the front of the screen or where the LEDs are.
That's all I can think of to try. Anyone have any suggestions?* I probably won't get a chance to pull it apart properly until next weekend, though if someone has a good suggestion of something to look for, I might do it earlier.
At two years and one month old, it's well past warranty.
* Yes, "Buy an Aura H2O"** is the obvious one. I'm not sure if my wife will believe the Glo broke less than two weeks before the H2O finally becomes available down here.
** And don't bother with "Buy a Kindle". It's not going to happen.
