Thread: HD Kindle Fire HD battery dead
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Old 01-07-2013, 10:16 PM   #43
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returning KFHD question
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Originally Posted by runtmms View Post
Glad it's working out for you. I bet your new one will be must better. As far as testing - I tried to mimic a test from an endgadget review.

"When it comes to battery life Amazon says you can expect 11 hours of normal usage, and in our typical battery rundown test (with a looping video, WiFi on and the display set to a fixed brightness) we scored about an hour short of that."

Full review:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/11/a...review-7-inch/




I don't think they are streaming video, and they don't say what "fixed brightness" they used.

I have some purchased videos in the Amazon Video on Demand store. I downloaded the longest one to my fire HD. Once fully charged I set the brightness to the middle (this was arbitrary on my part) and I started playing the downloaded video - any time I thought about it I restarted at the beginning (my poor man's looped video.) With my replacement my play time was in the right ballpark for the 9" version - the same endgaget test yielded ~9 hours for the 9". My the one I replaced couldn't make it past 5 hours.
I got the "new" Kindle Fire HD today, they said it was new, and not refurbished. I hope so.

Anyway, to return the first one all I do is degister and reset device? All my personal info, wi-fi address should be erased right?

Thanks.
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