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Originally Posted by henders254
I bought my PRS 650 seven months ago and haven't used it all that much.
Only read about 10 books (PDF and epubs) and took some notes.
Now it seems to be playing up.
- the battery drains over night - means the processer is not working
- if I press the options button, it goes to the next page (sometimes)
- asks me to shut down in the middle of reading
- and all kinds of other weird things
I have soft-reset the unit numerous times and re-charged fully.
The unit only has 7 PDF and epub books at the moment with some notes on them.
There is no MP3 or pictures or anything else.
There is no external memory either.
The only thing left to do is a hard-reset. Would anyone recommend doing anything else
before I proceed?
Thanks.
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My PRS-650 was doing exactly the same - I bought it last November and it was sent to Sony UK for repair at the end of July. The despatch note that came back with it said that the 'ornament assembly' had been replaced. I had tried several hard-resets but because it was a problem with the hardware that made no difference.
The battery was being drained overnight because from standby it was flickering rapidly from standby screen to page to standby screen over and over - fast enough that the eye didn't register an image of the page, just a bright flash for a split second every few seconds.
Unfortunately, it started to do the same thing again a couple of weeks ago. This time it was immediately returned to Sony (via Waterstones customer service as it was still under warranty) and I will be collecting it from my local branch of Waterstones tomorrow.
I hope the problem has been fixed for good as the warranty expired on 25 November - the day it was sent back for repair!
PS You may notice from my stats on the left there that I also have a Kobo Touch - just purchased last week so I could continue to feed my e-reading habit!