Solved Some keys of the type cover not working

[Plantje]

Finally I got a little further! My brother was visiting yesterday. The keys of my Type Cover were not working again. So I connected my Type Cover to his Surface Pro 3 and his Type Cover to my Surface 3. And now it became clear that it is the Type Cover itself that is malfunctioning.

So, now I will have to send it in for replacement. I only need to call Microsoft as I want to use my credit card and have them send me a new Type Cover before I have to send in the defective one.

 

[Plantje]

Received my new Type Cover today and all seems to be working perfectly on this one. The touch pad of this one makes some more noise, but I think that shouldn't be an issue.

 

[wolfie]

Hi,

~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 - = keys on my Type Cover suddenly stop working. Is there a virus attack going on? I've tried all the steps on MS support page but none works.

When I contact MS, they keep asking me to pay 69 bucks just to have a phone call with them as my device is already out of warranty. I refuse to do so.

It only happened 2 days ago, 5th Nov 2016. Does anyone else have the same issue? Is it due to some updates again? Thanks.

 

[Plantje]

No issue here... (in that area). All updates are installed on my device.

 

[Turbo4AWD]

Finally I got a little further! My brother was visiting yesterday. The keys of my Type Cover were not working again. So I connected my Type Cover to his Surface Pro 3 and his Type Cover to my Surface 3. And now it became clear that it is the Type Cover itself that is malfunctioning.

So, now I will have to send it in for replacement. I only need to call Microsoft as I want to use my credit card and have them send me a new Type Cover before I have to send in the defective one.

Yeah, noticed the noisy touchpad button click as well, but doesn't bother me much since I usually touch the screen rather than click the mouse button for whatever link I need to click on a website.

 

[mahavir]

As soon as I got my type cover I noticed it wasn't working. After a while it did work except for some keys (the "b", "n", "m" and ",") A little while later they worked, so I assumed it was due to some battery perhaps in the type cover.

Today all of a sudden those keys stopped working again. How can I determine if the issue is in the Surface or in the Type Cover?

I intend to go to a local store today and connect the Type Cover to another tablet and connect my tablet to another Type Cover. I assume that is the only way.

I have tried starting using the volume up and power button held down. But that didn't help

I had problem with key 'p' in my surface RT. It used to work on and off and one day it stopped working. Then some other keys '0'; 'backspace' ; ']' also gave up. Reading many blogs was not much help . In desperation I kept pressing the key 'p' for few seconds and lo and behold it started working. The other keys also returned to function. I don't know the relation between these keys. Hope this will be of help. I am not an expert.

 

[Plantje]

The replacement Type Cover fortunately never had this issue. But thank you for your response. Perhaps that is a "solution"