Thread: Aura Kobo Aura ONE issues
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Old 10-16-2016, 09:02 PM   #9
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Zaroff View Post
Alright, I have to be the devil's advocate again.
The pedant in my has to point out that you are not playing Devil's Advocate.
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Firmware 4.1.7729 solves NOTHING. As far as battery is concerned.

So, I've posted in other threads about the problems I was having with this thing, pre and post firmware update.
So I managed to get a replacement unit, finally, from where I bought it from. Which means that currently, I have both on hand.

First, the screens couldn't look more different if they tried. Kobo QC? Forget about it. Screens are all over the place. If anyone doubts that, I can post pics within a minute.

Second, I set up the new device exactly following the recommendations, to the letter, of another poster (I forgot the name, mea culpa) suggesting never to turn on wifi in the first place, which I didn't. Only, what do you know, at the end of the setup process through the PC application, at first reboot, wifi is enabled by default. So, so much for that, but thanks.
That is expected. At no time during the setup via the desktop application to you get an opportunity to turn WiFi off. The original question is asking how do you want to do the setup, not if you want to ever use WiFi.
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And, finally, guess what, after a half day use of the new unit, the dreaded 10% drop appears. This is with 4.1.7729.
I don't remember if you have stated what you mean by "the dreaded 10% drop". If I read that statement, I would think that you had checked the battery level and saw a value, then within a couple of minutes checked it again and saw a value 10% lower. If that was over a longer time, even an hour, then a 10% drop isn't actually that bad. And if you are actually using the device constantly for half a day, then 10% battery drop is not much. The figures Kobo quote are 1 month of 30 minutes reading per day. That means roughly 15 hours of reading. And that is roughly 6% per hour of reading. If "half a day" is six hours, then 10% is a lot less than expected. And if I take "half a day" as 12 hours (after all, a day is 24 hours) then 10% battery usage is fantastic for 12 hours of reading.

It really depends on what you were doing with the device.
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