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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Before my last Fire unit died, I had received an autoshutdown request which I cancelled to continue playing with it.
My ignoring of that request may have killed the unit. In the future I will obey that request if I receive it again and then do a 4 hour charge immediately.
On my new exchanged unit I intend to do a Shut Down every night which will automatically shut down all apps and WiFi as well. That procedure may be necessary for long battery life.
My unit died when I neglected that process for a week. It may be true that certain apps continue to operate in sleep mode and drain the battery too low without reflecting it in the battery meter. If the battery meter shows 30% or less before the shutdown, I will charge it overnight as well.
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I have neglected that process as well a couple of times. Once I neglected it to the point where the battery had nothing left and the unit shut down. I haven't had any issues with mine, but I won't be doing that anymore.
What I'm confused about is people saying they will do a shut down overnight. So I assume they aren't charging it overnight then? I charge my fire every night while I'm sleeping, but when you do a shut down and then plug the charger in, the fire automatically powers up and is in sleep mode (not shut down) while charging it seems. It doesn't seem that you can charge the fire while it's in shut down mode, as the unit automatically turns itself on to charge, isn't that correct?
On another note, I have not noticed mine losing battery life when I put it in sleep mode during the day. If I put it in sleep mode, (which I do daily) and then turn it on hours later, the battery doesn't appear to have drained at all.