KA1 battery drains fast and even when off

[petercreasey]

After draining completely during the night, the KA1 battery was hooked up and fully charged with a wall charger early morning. By mid afternoon, even with just a small amount of reading, it was down to 61% charge.

I turned the KA1 off and left it off. Two hours later it was down to 49%.

All features are turned off, including wifi, sync, lighting.

Any suggestions as to what is going on?

[gibletpie]

Even after getting auto sync turned off, mine was continually trying to sync in the background until I signed out and signed back in (through settings>accounts). I assume you have done this?

[petercreasey]

Originally Posted by gibletpie

Even after getting auto sync turned off, mine was continually trying to sync in the background until I signed out and signed back in (through settings>accounts). I assume you have done this?

g, no, I don't know how I would have known to do that.

I just now did what you said and had to redo the total reinitialization/settings/etc. I even had to redo the firmware mod with PeriodicAutoSync=false.

Hope it was all worthwhile!

[gibletpie]

Originally Posted by petercreasey

g, no, I don't know how I would have known to do that.

I just now did what you said and had to redo the total reinitialization/settings/etc. I even had to redo the firmware mod with PeriodicAutoSync=false.

Hope it was all worthwhile!

Yeah, I had to do that, too. I think it didn't finish syncing correctly the first time.

[rashkae]

I've observed 2 seperate sync battery draining issues with the Aura 1. The first issue was with the stock firmware.. 3.19.something. Even though Autosync was unchecked, and stayed uncheked, it would constantly start trying to sync, and get stuck,,, (even though there was no wifi, so it couldn't even talk to the Kobo servers, it would just keep trying and trying.

The second issue was after updating to the 4.whatever firmware posted on this forum.. (has anyone confirmed that this firmware is even being pushed to the One? It completely reverts some of the new interface elements from the One to previous generation... Example, no "Reading List".) With that firmware installed, you are no longer able to disable Auto Sync from the Settings menu. It looks like you do, but the setting is simply not saved.. You *can* however, edit the settings text file to disable auto sync. But I would note, autosync by itself should not drain the battery to a noticeable degree, assuming all the books have already been downloaded.

[davidfor]

Pete: Is there really a need for you to start three different threads for the battery problems with the Aura ONE? And two in less than 24 hours. It is the same problem and asking the question multiple times is not going to get a different answer. It is just going to fracture the discussion and make it harder follow.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by rashkae

The second issue was after updating to the 4.whatever firmware posted on this forum.. (has anyone confirmed that this firmware is even being pushed to the One? It completely reverts some of the new interface elements from the One to previous generation... Example, no "Reading List".) With that firmware installed, you are no longer able to disable Auto Sync from the Settings menu. It looks like you do, but the setting is simply not saved.. You *can* however, edit the settings text file to disable auto sync. But I would note, autosync by itself should not drain the battery to a noticeable degree, assuming all the books have already been downloaded.

When I opened the box on my Aura One and connected it to the Kobo Desktop app, it automagically updated to 4.0.7523 from 3.20.6894.

I used PeriodicAutoSync=false under the [ApplicationPreferences] header and that seems to have kept auto sync from happening -- just don't accidentally check the Automatic Sync box as that removes the PeriodicAutoSync=false entry from the configuration file and you'll need to re-add it to disable automatic sync.

[petercreasey]

david, unusual situation in that different people needed to be targeted!

[petercreasey]

Originally Posted by gibletpie

Even after getting auto sync turned off, mine was continually trying to sync in the background

g, thanks for your help with all of this.

I'm curious...how did you know yours was trying to sync in the background? Just battery draining? Or something else?

[robko]

Originally Posted by rashkae

The second issue was after updating to the 4.whatever firmware posted on this forum.. (has anyone confirmed that this firmware is even being pushed to the One? It completely reverts some of the new interface elements from the One to previous generation... Example, no "Reading List".) With that firmware installed, you are no longer able to disable Auto Sync from the Settings menu.

Having no reading list is correct for the 4.xx version of the firmware, that's not a reversion to an old firmware. The autosync setting not sticking in config file is a known bug in 4.0.7523 and should be fixed in next update.

[gibletpie]

Originally Posted by petercreasey

g, thanks for your help with all of this.

I'm curious...how did you know yours was trying to sync in the background? Just battery draining? Or something else?

There's a tile on the home screen that usually says "Sync" with the date or time of your last sync listed. Mine always said "Syncing" with the little arrow circle on the left revolving. This was also present in the menu you get by clicking on the three dots in the upper right hand corner.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by petercreasey

david, unusual situation in that different people needed to be targeted!

In the same forum?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by DNSB

In the same forum?

I couldn't work out if he was referring to your post or my question about multiple threads. In either case, I couldn't work out what the unusual circumstances were or who the the different people were.