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Originally Posted by blkhawk
wait? you took apart a kindle oasis battery pack and did not post any pictures? Shame on you 
As for more than 2 pins - yes the connector has 5 pins - and if you add up the ones I wrote about then you get to 5 pins. |
Not an Oasis, a PW3. However, they are probably very similar inside.
And yes, I do plan to take pictures and post them. It is on my "To Do" list. I also have a K2 with a bloated battery. LiPo batteries are in sealed foil pouches which tend to inflate when they die. This K2 battery inflated so much that the kindle front and back were bulged and the side seam split open. Thankfully, the battery pack was under the keyboard and not the fragile eink display.
I do not yet have an Oasis -- just PW3 and older (except my PW1, which was last seen in California a couple years ago)...
I will post photos when I cut out the old (spot-welded tabs) LiPo and solder in a cheap replacement, into the original battery pack frame. It *should* work (and even ID itself as an authentic amazon battery pack).
I plan to do such battery surgery for both dead battery packs, and yes, I will post pictures (soon).
EDIT: Pictures posted here. I will add more to that thread when I experiment with "non-standard" battery transplants, that attempt to masquerade as genuine amazon batteries. 