Thread: Troubleshooting PW2 and battery
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Old 03-05-2014, 09:14 PM   #6
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Did you load a lot of books on it at once? Your PW might be indexing the files you've loaded and this can drain the battery. If you added a lot of files at once, it might take the Kindle quite a while (several hours) to perform the initial indexing of the files. Battery usage should go to a more reasonable rate once the indexing is done.

To see if your PW is still indexing form the home screen, do an "all text" search for some nonsense characters (like xahrheawifj)--something that the PW won't find on your PW. If there are still items indexing you'll get a message showing how many items are left to index.

I know some folks have had problems with some files either taking a long time to index or files that for some reason the PW can't index at all. My understanding is that if this happens, the PW will continue to try to index the files continuing to drain battery life.

Best practice is to load a few files (10-20) at a time. (Of course that's not what I do!) LOL
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