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FJames · 07-28-2011, 11:50 PM

My KT has just run out of power and been recharged for the 3rd time, so some patterns are beginning to emerge.

This time the battery icon showed about 20% power shortly before it wouldn't turn on again. That's about the same as last time. It's a little better than the initial cycle, where it shut down showing at least 30%, but still not very good accuracy at the bottom end.

This time it took about 3.5 hours of charging to show full charge (battery icon full and showing a check mark on the Sleep screen), but I was reading for part of that time. It generally seems to take at least 3 hours to charge fully, so it's not as quick as the 2 hours suggested in the manual.

Once again the battery indicator dropped immediately to about 90% as soon as it was powered on. That seems to be a general problem that has not been fixed by any of the firmware updates.

My Reading Stats show about 67 total hours read over 6 weeks on 3 full battery charges, so the battery life seems to be realistically about 2 weeks while averaging a little over 10 hours of reading per week. The Stats don't show how many pages turned, but I would guess 2000 - 3000 per charge.

07-28-2011, 11:50 PM	#7
FJames Addict Posts: 320 Karma: 320941 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Touch & Aura	My KT has just run out of power and been recharged for the 3rd time, so some patterns are beginning to emerge. This time the battery icon showed about 20% power shortly before it wouldn't turn on again. That's about the same as last time. It's a little better than the initial cycle, where it shut down showing at least 30%, but still not very good accuracy at the bottom end. This time it took about 3.5 hours of charging to show full charge (battery icon full and showing a check mark on the Sleep screen), but I was reading for part of that time. It generally seems to take at least 3 hours to charge fully, so it's not as quick as the 2 hours suggested in the manual. Once again the battery indicator dropped immediately to about 90% as soon as it was powered on. That seems to be a general problem that has not been fixed by any of the firmware updates. My Reading Stats show about 67 total hours read over 6 weeks on 3 full battery charges, so the battery life seems to be realistically about 2 weeks while averaging a little over 10 hours of reading per week. The Stats don't show how many pages turned, but I would guess 2000 - 3000 per charge. Last edited by FJames; 07-28-2011 at 11:53 PM.