[azazel1024]

And kerplewie.

Started reading at lunch, got about 30 seconds in on a page and it told me it needed to charge. I got a lot more life out of it this time around, something upwards of 2 weeks of pretty heavy use, but at the same time, when last used yesteday afternoon, the charge level claimed to be somewhere around 40% and I didn't use it at all last night or this morning.

I am well past even a gift receipt return, so it would be warranty only and the likely hassles with that. Since its a 1 year warranty I'll give it a go for awhile longer, but there is something odd going on with the device. It lasted longer, and until it just crapped out, the battery meter at least seemed to be more accurate (no preceived slow drain). So maybe now it really is working normally and a little over 2 weeks of heavy use is all the battery is good for (~2hrs a day, 15-16 days of use comes out to around 30hrs of use which seems not to far out of line if it is 60 days of use at 1/2hr per day).

Maybe it is more an issue of calibrating the battery now that there is no slow drain. Who knows, but I guess I'll find out.

Time for another charge cycle or two and see if things are working a little more reliably. For me, 2 weeks of heavy use is just fine for battery life, but I need/want a more accurate battery meter. I'd like to be able to rely on it to tell me when it is getting low, and not just conk out suddenly. Recharging every 2 weeks come rain or shine isn't a terrible hardship, but I'd still like to know how much charge level I really have, not based on milage.

*edit* BLARGH! I as a theory, I let it sit for about the last maybe half hour and tried to turn it on with a good 2-3s power button press. It started right up with 47% battery life being reported both at boot time and in the settings display. It would not start back up when I tried hitting the power button right after getting the "plug in to charge" screen initially.

Same thing happened when the nook had been dropped a little over a week ago. Gave me the charge screen but it started right back up (that was maybe 2-3 minutes after it had been dropped). It also makes me wonder if 2 weeks ago when it claimed to have a flat battery after just having reported ~80% charge and forced me to plug it in, then only charged for 45 minutes till full, if it would have booted back up if I had only waited a couple of minutes before trying to boot it.

I'll keep an eye on this and the next time it does it (before it is really reporting a dead battery) I'll try booting it immediately, then try after 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 15 minutes and then about every 15 minutes until it boots, or I give up (probably after an hour or so) and just charge it up.

I'd wonder if there is a lose connection, but other than the drop incident, both times it did this was within about 30 seconds of having woken from sleep, no jostling, etc. The first time was around 80% charge, the 2nd 47%. I wonder if the calibration is still really wonky and there is some super brief period where it thinks the charge is lower than it really is, but it boots backup fine after powering off all the way as the battery really is charged fine.