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Doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Looking on B&N's official forums there are at least a dozen or more users reporting similar problems.
As for charging, yeah I've been using the official charger. Mine doesn't have a rated output on it, but using a kill-a-watt meter, is draws 5.6w from the wall, which unless it is horribly inefficient works out to a 1amp charger. The charge time from dead also vaguely corresponds to 1amp charging.
If the total charge time from 0 to full at .5amp is 3 1/2hrs roughly as per B&N, then the 1hr 45min or so is roughly half the time, or about double the current draw.
It could stem from charging too quickly, but still seems mighty odd. If it is, it is still a B&N defect/problem though. That said, having charged from my computer after discharging a percent or two (and taking maybe 10 minutes to top off the charge over my computer's USB port to 100%) it still exhibits the wierd battery readings and shortened battery life.
Damned annoying and I just wish it worked itself out. Annoying that I have to pay to ship it back to B&N and I am not 100% confident in regards to the lack of gift recipte about what that'll mean (according to the B&N rep I spoke to it isn't needed with rapid replacement). I am still going to wait through this discharge cycle, in part because I said I would.
I can honestly live with roughly 3 weeks of battery life, though this time around with lighter use it was closer to 2 1/2wks of battery life, which is much less acceptable (probably averaged 90 minutes a day instead of 2hrs a day when it lasted 19 days before). A lot of it is the horribly unreliable battery meter.
The first time around that the battery lasted a vaguely appropriate amount of time, after it dropped below 50% I'd get random "low" (probably accurate) battery readings followed by jumping back up and random power downs, that would let me power it right back up. That lasted about 5 days before the battery was flat dead. This time around it hit about 64% and then did the same behavior, but only for about a day and a half and then it refused to power back on. Spent about an hour charging it at 1amp in my car on my lunch hour and then about another hour and a quarter or so charging it off my work computer's USB port to get to 100%.
It refused to turn on until about 5 minutes before the end of that hour charging at 1amp, which was also annoying/concerning and then reported 0% battery charge for the entire time it was connected. I powered it off and when I connected it to my work computer it turned on just fine and reported 80 odd % battery charge.
So unless things are magically fixed, this thing seems posessed and I just can't trust the battery readings what-so-ever with the added concern of, what if it just refuses to power back on one of these days.
So in short, I am 99% sure I am just going to suck it up and waste half an hour of my time going to the nearest post office/UPS to ship it back to B&N and get a replacement no matter what in another week or two once the battery is flat again (if not sooner).
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