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Originally Posted by THE TERMINATOR
Doesn't the red light mean it's charging? mine is red when charging then blue when charged
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late and obvious, but better than never I suppose, according to the MANUAL:
red/violet = charging
blue = fully charged
Anyways, I picked up one of these yesterday @ Borders before they disappear and the price is decent for a basic eInk reader, potential hackability is a bonus, however I'm still at the point of checking out the battery life on mine.
I charged the device up yesterday as soon as I had gotten it home, took the entirety of the 3h that the manual claimed that it might take even with it shutdown most of the time. Updated it to the 1.74 fw, as it came with 1.71 IIRC, over WiFi. (Charged just in time as my PRS-505 just drained on me... and my actual intent was to use the Kobo as much as possible over the next several days to ensure proper battery functionality anyways.)
Used it for several hours w/a sideloaded epub ATM (one that I had been reading on the 505 -- kind of a PITA getting it loaded as calibre was f'ing up so I did it manually). My battery stayed @ 100% per onboard indicator in the menu and so I did a reboot this morning and it still shows 100%, as I read somewhere here that the battery indicator might only update at boot time, not sure if this was a ref to old Kobo-1 fw or the current Kobo wifi fw since I haven't had much time to do research.
I presume that a) lasting several hours(not sure of page "turns" but must be at least 100+ plus monkeying around through menus and things) and b) batt indicator still reading 100%(full icon) in menu are good things as far as batt life goes? i.e. do the faulty ones start dropping the indicator right away?