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Originally Posted by Zaroff
I've read in some other thread that it's to be "expected" since it's part of battery calibration. Really? I've owned many more portable/rechargeable devices than I care to remember, from cellphones to laptops to iThings to DAPs etc, and I've never met some such battery "conditioning". I'm not entirely certain Kobo designed such a new way to implement/measure battery capacity that this would normally be needed. Unless they want to make a flaw pass for a feature.
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Ummm... power manager on Lenovo laptops has an option to re-calibrate the battery meter. It takes quite a while and involves draining the battery down to 0 and then recharging it to fully charged. And yes, this needs to be done when updating the battery firmware, compensating for the loss of battery capacity over time -- my current laptop shows the original battery capacity to be 93.6Wh while the current capacity is 57.9Wh, replacing the battery and ghod alone knows what other reasons. I've seen this type of utility on several other devices (laptops, tablets, measurement devices) I've owned and/or used over the years.
And I won't even get into the fun we are having with Surface battery life and the seemingly endless series of updates.