Kindle Battery Problems?
You know how sometimes you have trouble sleeping? Then you decide it’s dawn already, so you might as well get up and do something useful? You feel like doing early morning reading when house is so quite. You are well into the book, about to wrap it up, and your emotions are starting to flow as you unravel the ending, and as you flip the page, you get a warning battery low message, connect your Kindle to power source!
This is the third time I notice this strange behavior with my 6″ Kindle (2nd Generation). Twice before, I would leave it off for weeks, almost full of charge, and next time I want to read I see the battery already went dead. I tried to mistake my self for it, but today I started reading with battery close to 75%. I was reading for two hours, and when the battery was easily above 25%, all of a sudden I got the battery critical message, preparing to go off. So much for the whole week usage with 1 charge, mind you I always have my wireless connection off! Ironically also, I have just recently updated to Version 2.3 of Kindle, which is supposed to bring in much longer battery life.
One fact is, I have recently added a bunch of books to the Kindle, so one might argue it’s been indexing them. But that explains only part of the drain. What about the previous two failures? And even today, I doubt the Kindle’s been indexing books for 2 hours. At least it shouldn’t be.
So I have two questions:
1- Is the battery supposed to drain while power is off?
2- Anyone else getting the same problem?
For the record, I always recharge through the laptop USB.
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I can say I had it standby once, well ok twice. But third time I was reading and it had more than 25%. I didn’t specify but yes I am using USB 2 to recharge. I fully recharged it now so let’s see
btw, if kindle is stNsby it should show some random picture which I don’t recall was the case. I’ll wait n see now
I have a Kindle 2, which is a replacement for the original, which I dropped and broke several months ago. Usually I keep the wireless off unless I am using it, and the charge lasts for many days of reading and standby. However, a couple of times recently I have turned it on and received the “battery critical” message when I know the battery had not been low when I last used it. I always try to keep it no less than half-charged. I am not sure about the first occasion, but I know that on the second occasion, I had charged it through the USB cable, and it was since the upgrade to version 2.3. Unlike some other people, I have had no trouble restarting the Kindle after recharging it, however.
Pete: Thanks. That tells me I’m not the only one. I’ve had a similar incident once more, and this time I got it on camera.
Why are you assuming that the device was off? Just because you pressed the power button, it doesn’t mean it went off — it could be hibernating/on stand by.
My laptop has 4 USB ports: 2x USB 2.0 & 2x USB 1.1 — I found out by accident when I was probing my hardware for extra details. Why am I mentioning this? Try charging your Kindle through USB 2.0 ports as it pushes more current through the ports. Or use a designated device charger and see if it makes a difference.