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Originally Posted by HarryT
We've discussed this before  . The "hold the power button in for 7 seconds until the screen goes blank" mode is a kind of suspend mode, with RAM still powered. The Kindle is not truly off. This is trivially demonstrated by the fact that it wakes instantly when the power switch is pressed; you don't get the "boy reading under a tree" boot screen.
But, since Amazon themselves choose to call it "turned off", I guess there's no harm in using that expression for it, even if it's not strictly speaking accurate. |
As I understand it, this "off" suspend mode actually turns off the power to most of the circuitry (including the CPU), keeping a trickle charge to the RAM so that it does not lose its contents. Because only the RAM has a minuscule power, it draws almost no battery current. Other than battery backed RAM, the rest of the kindle is essentially off.