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Originally Posted by jetpoet
I'm very sorry to hear this 
Anyway: what I gather from the links you posted is that the flash chip is faulty due to a damaged battery, and that happened even before I tried Kubrick on my device?
Did I get it right? |
That is a good summary.
Some battery types have a decreasing maximum terminal voltage as they age ;
Li-Ion has a decreasing storage capacity as they age.
Use/Charge patterns do influence how fast the Li-Ion batteries age.
The battery management system in an electric or hybrid-electric car, where a new battery costs $10,000+, have a very sophisticated system (and they are not glued in).
($45,000 for the battery in your Tesla Model S and they might as well be glued in, you remove the car from the battery, not the battery from the car.)
The Kindles also have a battery management system, not quite on-par with those used in cars.
I.E: You will not see 10 years+ of useful life, two to three is more like it.
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Mr. Edison "got it right" with his "Edison Battery" (Nickel-Iron) - those have useful lifetimes measured in decades. Some of the originals are still working.
