sad to say, after a week of working, it completely stopped working again!
this is so stupid.
Surface Pro 4 type cover suddenly not working.
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I don't know what happened. I turned my Surface Pro 4 on the other day and the type cover is dead. No lights. No response. No indication that it's working at all. I rarely take my surface anywhere.
This started on July 9th 2018. My system information is below. I've gone through all of the steps in the "Troubleshoot your Surface Type Cover or keyboard" page. I've tried to manually download and install the latest firmware and drivers from the "Download firmware and drivers for surface" page. I picked SurfacePro4_Win10_16299_1801701_1.msi. My device manager does not show the "Surface Touch Cover Filter Device" under keyboards or anywhere. It only shows the HID keyboard and cannot detect my type cover. The type cover is completely unresponsive. Also, my windows updates are completely up to date. I've provided the links to the troubleshooting pages I used below.
AGAIN, WTH
Troubleshoot your Surface Type Cover or keyboard
Download drivers and firmware for Surface
Edition
Windows 10 Professional
Version
1803
OS Build
10.0.17134.165
Serial #
035060755053
Processor
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz
Graphics card
Intel(R) HD Graphics 520
System
OSType64BitX64
RAM
8 GB
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Anonymous
2018-10-13T13:49:47+00:00 I've had the issue since last month. Tried every method mentioned in this post including windows reset and loading a new recovery image. Still no joy. Unbelievable. My first and last surface!
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Anonymous
2018-10-13T13:08:40+00:00 can you post the link of the recovery image for reinstalling?
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Anonymous
2018-10-13T12:58:01+00:00 I suddenly had this issue yesterday morning, Oct. 12. I found it was not working when I closed the type cover for sleep/hibernate. Then I rebooted the SP4 and it went back working. However, after another reboot, it stopped working completely. I tried all the approaches except resetting the windows: alcohol wiping, 2-button, restarting, and so on. It didn't work on UEFI either. Also booted in LinuxMint in USB stick, it didn't work.