Kindle DX Global battery replacement

[tablettweet]

good to know about this Kindle DX issue thank you lol ;])

[Solicitous]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

I'd probably go for the self-install.

Doesn't replacing a battery yourself violate the Kindle Licence Agreement you bought the Kindle under?

<quote>No Reverse Engineering, Decompilation, Disassembly or Circumvention. You may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Device or the Software, whether in whole or in part, create any derivative works from or of the Software, or bypass, modify, defeat or tamper with or circumvent any of the functions or protections of the Device or Software or any mechanisms operatively linked to the Software, including, but not limited to, augmenting or substituting any digital rights management functionality of the Device or Software.</quote>

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by Solicitous

Doesn't replacing a battery yourself violate the Kindle Licence Agreement you bought the Kindle under?

Don't care. I own the Kindle, I am not leasing it. Since it's out of warranty, if I need something repaired and Amazon won't do it (or won't do it at a reasonable price) I'm going to do it myself.

[lost66615]

my battery is not holding charge and talked to amazon cs not going to go this route so i went on amazons site and found a replacement battery for 8 quid
cheap at the price and found a video on youtube on how to open my reader
the battery link is
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cameron-Sino.../dp/B00344R0Z2

and you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymli5IbOtSo

better than paying 60 dollars for replacement form amazon

[SamuraiXSendai]

Originally Posted by lost66615

my battery is not holding charge and talked to amazon cs not going to go this route so i went on amazons site and found a replacement battery for 8 quid
cheap at the price and found a video on youtube on how to open my reader
the battery link is
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cameron-Sino.../dp/B00344R0Z2

and you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymli5IbOtSo

better than paying 60 dollars for replacement form amazon

Way to go! That's what I'll do when the time comes.

[lost66615]

just got my new battery today sat 11/9 and installed and charged last better than my old on
easy fix when know how

[jgumphress]

My DX is only a few weeks old. I leave the 3G on all the time and I only get three days of standby. That's with no reading at all. This morning I picked up my Kindle and the battery was totaly dead.

[Tiersten]

Originally Posted by Solicitous

Doesn't replacing a battery yourself violate the Kindle Licence Agreement you bought the Kindle under?

No. Those clauses in the agreement are to prevent somebody from reverse engineering the Kindle to make a low cost clone. Amazon have done the hardware and software development already so somebody else cloning it could make a cheaper product as they don't need to recoup those costs. You'll find similar clauses for most software and hardware.

You own the Kindle hardware and you can do whatever you want with it just don't try to make a copy of it. The worst that happens is that you void the warranty if it still has one.

[Tiersten]

Originally Posted by jgumphress

My DX is only a few weeks old. I leave the 3G on all the time and I only get three days of standby. That's with no reading at all. This morning I picked up my Kindle and the battery was totaly dead.

The DXG is only rated for up to 1 week with wireless on. If the Kindle is doing indexing of your books then that will be shortened until it has finished. If it still does it over the next couple charge cycles then talk to Amazon CS to see if you've got a faulty unit.

Originally Posted by Amazon

Read for up to 1 week on a single charge with wireless on. Turn wireless off and read for two to three weeks.