Surface Pro 3 Type Cover Not Working, In BIOS/UEFI or Windows 10 after 1803 Update

Thanks, I guess misery loves company. Lol. I was thinking of upgrading to a surface pro 6 before this happened but absolutely will not until they can get this fixed for me. How hard can it be to release a patch for this that seems to affect so many people

Hey Wendy I think I worked it out to a degree. When I fully charged my battery again after getting my type cover to work again, I closed the type lid cover onto the tablet and with it's settings it went into sleep/shut down mode then it disappeared again.

This is after I tried every other approach listed on the internet, uninstalling driver, cleaning connection point, hard resetting, re-installing windows the whole kit and caboodle.

So with it not working again I changed the type cover settings so that it won't effect the operation of the surface pro such as shut down and sleep. I then kept draining the battery until it needed to be charged. Took a few goes to work but when it drained enough it allowed the surface pro 3 to connect back with the type cover. 

I've now open and closed my cover with the new settings and it doesn't effect the cover. I'll now see how it goes once fully charged and I manually put the sp3 into sleep or shut down mode to see if it also continues to work.

So it's definitely something more maybe in the updates of firmware which has been missed. 

HI, I have tried your solution without success. Perhaps the only way MS will take notice is if we all write to them and copy it to the press and consumer organisations.

Yes I'd be up for that. We should be doing something about it. Someone should take the initiative though to take it to the press.

Thanks, I guess misery loves company. Lol. I was thinking of upgrading to a surface pro 6 before this happened but absolutely will not until they can get this fixed for me. How hard can it be to release a patch for this that seems to affect so many people

Hey Wendy I think I worked it out to a degree. When I fully charged my battery again after getting my type cover to work again, I closed the type lid cover onto the tablet and with it's settings it went into sleep/shut down mode then it disappeared again.

This is after I tried every other approach listed on the internet, uninstalling driver, cleaning connection point, hard resetting, re-installing windows the whole kit and caboodle.

So with it not working again I changed the type cover settings so that it won't effect the operation of the surface pro such as shut down and sleep. I then kept draining the battery until it needed to be charged. Took a few goes to work but when it drained enough it allowed the surface pro 3 to connect back with the type cover. 

I've now open and closed my cover with the new settings and it doesn't effect the cover. I'll now see how it goes once fully charged and I manually put the sp3 into sleep or shut down mode to see if it also continues to work.

So it's definitely something more maybe in the updates of firmware which has been missed. 

HI, I have tried your solution without success. Perhaps the only way MS will take notice is if we all write to them and copy it to the press and consumer organisations.

Same thing happened with mine Wendy. Battery drained and I didn't realise, took it in to JB HiFi then went to turn it on, dead. Plugged one of their charges in and my keyboard worked for the first time since update. Took it home and opened it up to use...... nothing again.

Nothing more frustrated then when a product is broken and you contact their support, they pretend* that they don't know a well known problem.

* Pretend because after a year and so many reported incident, they've not updated the KB to include the information.

SP3 suddenly stopped recognising typecover yesterday

I have 2 typecovers and neither work, both literally worked in the morning and stopped working in the afternoon. Neither register in bios. I cant see the filter device driver in device manager

Please investigate whats going on and issue a fix for this !!