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davidjoseph1 · 05-11-2013, 08:33 PM

I purchased an m92 replacement battery from ereader-store.de on May 1, and received the battery today, May 11, transhipped from Germany to NYC, USA.

The leads on the m92 battery are soldered into a plug shoe that is shaped differently from the plug shoe on the OEM M90 battery that shipped with my m90 from the US retailer in June 2011. Needless to say, the new battery will not plug into the motherboard socket on the M90. I expect that I will have to swap the plug shoe from the old battery to the new, in order to use it in my m90.

How do I do this? I do not own a multimeter. I do have a soldering iron, but I lack the experience and patience to swap the wires appropriately, especially since messing up will fry the ereader! Why the heck would one change this particular part? I rely on the device professionally, and am frustrated that so few options exist for service or maintenance. I researched a number of batteries of the appropriate size and type, but I ordered this one from ereader-store.de on the assurance of several of the users on this board that the m92 battery was an appropriate part.

05-11-2013, 08:33 PM	#1
davidjoseph1 Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 129898 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Onyx Boox M90, M92 (*3),M96, N96,I86ml,C67ml,Kepler,Poke,Poke2,Nova3	M92 battery not compatible with m90 I purchased an m92 replacement battery from ereader-store.de on May 1, and received the battery today, May 11, transhipped from Germany to NYC, USA. The leads on the m92 battery are soldered into a plug shoe that is shaped differently from the plug shoe on the OEM M90 battery that shipped with my m90 from the US retailer in June 2011. Needless to say, the new battery will not plug into the motherboard socket on the M90. I expect that I will have to swap the plug shoe from the old battery to the new, in order to use it in my m90. How do I do this? I do not own a multimeter. I do have a soldering iron, but I lack the experience and patience to swap the wires appropriately, especially since messing up will fry the ereader! Why the heck would one change this particular part? I rely on the device professionally, and am frustrated that so few options exist for service or maintenance. I researched a number of batteries of the appropriate size and type, but I ordered this one from ereader-store.de on the assurance of several of the users on this board that the m92 battery was an appropriate part.