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Originally Posted by kgn
Sure - but the version I got - and the version the box was marked for was the old version of the firmware. 15.2 has only just been released, of course. I dare say the boxes were made months ago. Perhaps the newer firmware uses up more power?
Perhaps this is the problem? I don't think it would have made all that much difference here - I read from around 6am to midnight or later - turning it off would not have helped all that much, I am thinking.
Nope - only 'til the meter on the 302 said it was fully charged. You cannot 'overcharge' batteries. Well - not in the sense that charging for longer will give them more life. Once a battery is fully charged, that is it. Perhaps the meter on the 302 is not all that accurate? This could be true - it does seem to recharge very quickly. Perhaps in under an hour even. I was quite surprised at how fast it was.
I read probably 18 hours a day. I used both the touchscreen and the buttons. Depended on how I was holding it at the time. Mostly the touch screen I guess, as the buttons are somewhat awkward to use.
It does NOT say 8-16000. It very plainly says, and I quote "16,000 pages on one battery charge". No caveats - no estimates - no confusion. 16,000. It does not say - 'up to 16,000 on a good day'.
This is a touchscreen unit - if we are not meant to use the touchscreen to get this sort of battery life, then I would hope that somewhere it would say that. I personally don't see that using the touchscreen (as opposed to the buttons) would use up any more power.
I was also out camping - so could not use wireless even if I wanted to! But no - since there is no working browser, I have turned off the wireless feature. Since there is no real use for bluetooth either, that is also turned off.
I only used the menus when I wanted to find the next book to read.
So - I think I read as a fairly typical user - reading perhaps longer than would normally be the case at one time - but doing as a normal reader would. Still I would have expected around even half of what is claimed. I would be happy with 8,000 (the industry standard, it seems).
I am thinking that the battery level meter on the unit is the problem. It can stay at full all day, then very quickly (relatively) drop by 2 bars. It also (by the meter) recharges VERY quickly.
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Well, I have been using my 302 extensively for over two weeks now (sorry, didn't count the page turns), but the battery is only down one bar. I do turn off the device when not reading.