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Old 10-26-2010, 01:48 PM   #11
rkomar
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada
Device: PRS-505, PB 902, PRS-T1, PB 623, PB 840, PB 633
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Originally Posted by zmix View Post
@rkomar: certainly it's premature to declare that the battery has issues, which is why I started this thread: To see how other PRS350 owners were faring. I'd also like to know if the PRS650 is any better... so far no actual users have replied.
I can't help you with either newer model, but I can say that my 2 year old PRS-505 still lasts about 2 weeks if I let it sit, but can drain in one day if I pop the SD card in and out many times and make it re-index the hundreds of books over and over. Indexing can use a lot of power, and could easily have dropped your time to one week if you were adding books to your device in that time.

On a similar note, when I first got my reader, I tried listening to music just to see if it worked (it did), then unplugged the headphones and put the reader to sleep. I got a bit panicky when my reader died within a few hours of operation the next day. It turned out that the music was still continuously playing and draining the battery. I couldn't figure out how to make it stop, so I deleted the songs from the device :P. Battery life was back to normal after that.

So, it's easy to discharge a perfectly good battery within a week.
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