Thread: Help! Powered Down Kindle in Mexico
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Old 06-12-2008, 07:32 PM   #12
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I think that the Kindle doesn't really charge itself enough from the USB. It gets a trickle and maybe if you connected your Kindle every night it might keep going for a long enough time. But, when the battery gets too low, it will not charge at all via the USB port and you *must* use the power adapter -- or at least feed power through the power port instead of the mini-USB port on the Kindle.
Oh, ok.

I was under the impression that like the Gen3 the kindle only had a USB port for charging and sync, and no separate power port.

Is the power port a standard sized one, or is it something very unusual and proprietary?
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