Thread: PRS-950 950 Battery life?
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Old 12-21-2010, 11:02 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Tieton View Post
My new 950 gets charged each day. The battery icon shows all bars full.
After less than two hours of reading, the battery bars are down by one.
After 4-6 hours, there's one bar showing.
Is this normal?
Do I have a defective battery?
BestBuy says I've until the end of January to return it.
Others' battery use experience?
Thanks
It sounds like your device is defective. I did have that problem with the original PRS900 I bought. I ended up replacing the battery and the problem went away.

But before you go through the replacement process, make sure your wifi and 3g are off and then see how much battery time you get. Sometimes, the connection does not go into standby (it happened to me on the PRS950 one day when it was constantly trying to download a corrupted file - an issue of the Financial Times) and, if that's the case, your battery could drain in as little as 4-6 hours, as you describe.
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