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Old 09-01-2016, 04:41 PM   #58
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK
Device: Kindle Oasis 3, Kindle Oasis 1
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Originally Posted by xorlof View Post
My WAF app drained the battery until the kindle was reporting 6.51% remaining...and then the app continued running as normal and for the next 4 hours the kindle kept reporting 6.51% battery remaining. (It should have been decreasing by 2-3% per hour.) After the 4 hours of being stuck at 6.51%, the reported battery life started decreasing again as normal until the app drained the battery and the kindle shut off. Weird.
This just suggests that the battery circuit had not yet fully calibrated itself: its initial assumption was that the battery had less capacity (or rather, a higher minimum voltage / internal resistance) than it in fact did. It should be better calibrated now a full discharge has happened.
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