My radio’s ‘full off’ mode (ie holding down the power button for more
than 2 seconds until the ‘Goodbye’ message appears) has never worked
properly.  The Radio doesn’t stay off, but within a few seconds starts
its ‘on’ sequence spontaneously (the Logitech logo, the ‘Free your
Music’ message and the Logitech jingle).  This happens in both mains
and battery power modes, and on both mysqueezebox.com and local SBS
connections.

In the past this has not been a big problem and I never investigated
it.  However, I have recently switched to battery working and I am now
plagued by the well reported problem of the radio turning itself ‘on’
spontaneously and promptly draining the battery.  Having read through
most of the various reports, I am starting to believe that the state of
the streaming, connection to mysqueezebox.com vs local SBS etc are red
herrings.  I think the following is the sequence of events:

1.      I press the power button momentarily to switch Radio to standby (I
have set a blank screensaver to conserve power)
2.      Because standby actually counts as ‘ON’
(http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Squeezebox_Radio_Battery
refers), the Radio then automatically turns ‘full off’ after 20 minutes
of idling.
3.      The automatic turning off sequence then encounters the ‘full off’
problem I described above and the Radio therefore turns itself back
on!

Of course, this is especially annoying for a Radio that is only used in
a bathroom for a short period each day and then left unattended – as
soon as it comes on spontaneously the battery starts to drain so unless
you notice and turn it off again quickly then the battery goes flat
within a day.

Three questions:

-       Does this sequence appear plausible?
-       If so, is there a solution to the 'full off' problem?
-       Even if I can solve this problem, I will be left with having to wake
up the Radio every day from ‘full off’ which is very slow.  I know this
has been complained about/documented elsewhere – is there any
workaround?

For the record, I have seen the above sequence occur on battery only
(never on mains power) under all combinations of the following
circumstances:

Squeezebox Server 7.5.1, 9009 firmware on Radio
Squeezebox Server 7.5.2, 9009 firmware on Radio
Any state of stream playing/paused/stopped
Any connection – happens on both mysqueezebox.com and local Squeezebox
Server
No alarms set

In the past I’ve quite enjoyed learning about and sorting through less
significant issues (notably native AAC decoding problems) through
participating in bug reports etc, but this one is a showstopper.  I’m
reluctantly coming to the conclusion that getting a Radio isn’t a
normal purchase of consumer electronics – it’s an invitation to join
the development team, who seem now to be fighting a losing battle with
their (frustrating but potentially excellent) product.

Thanks in advance for any help.


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