Thread: Touch Kobo will not hold the charge
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Old 11-23-2015, 01:40 AM   #9
davidfor
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Originally Posted by polli View Post
I rely on the auto sleep.

Wifi not turned on.
Yes the battery drains quickly. Only just started to happen. Very disappointed as read a lot.
I assume the last statement is in reference to my question about what happens during the day. So, it is draining the battery as quickly when you use the device as when left overnight?

You have missed an important piece of information: What firmware version is the Glo running? Are you using any patches, alternative readers or any other addons such as KSM?

I have a few things I try when I get strange behaviour.

- After charging, unplug the device and use it.
- After charging, restart the device.
- Instead of waiting for the device to go to sleep, use the button to sleep it.
- When finished reading, close the book before putting it down.
- When finished reading, close the book and restart the device before putting it down.

Some might seem pointless, but the idea is to change parameters to work out what is going on. For example, the last one is because there seems to be some books that cause battery drain after they have been opened. By restarting the device, no book is opened, so any drain is coming from somewhere else.

And I should have said...

At some point, someone is going to suggest doing a factory reset. While this is a pain to do, it does fix unusual problems like this. If you want to do this now, I suggest taking a copy of everything on the user accessible partition of the device. Then, do a factory reset and then set-up. Then do some testing to see whether that has fixed things. If it hasn't, you can delete the files on the device and restore the copied files so that you are back to where you were before. If it does fix the battery life, you can decide whether to restore the files, or start putting your books back manually. The main difference will be the loss of the reading status and statistics.

Of course, if it is the battery has died, then there is nothing you can do to fix it. Your only choice is to buy a new battery. Or use it as an excuse to get a new ereader. I recommend the Kobo Glo HD.
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