Thread: Aura Kobo Aura ONE issues
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Old 10-17-2016, 12:17 AM   #21
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Zaroff View Post
I'll clarify:

The 10% drop is what happened to many, i.e. starting to use the device and reading and, a few minutes later, dropping 10% battery level. When I say a few minutes, it's five, max. And that indeed does remain with 4.1.7729. As well as the bug regarding the auto sleep, but that's another story, I could live with that.
And did it drop another 10% in the next five minutes? And what was the device doing before this? Was it sleeping, you woke the device, checked the battery level read for five minutes and checked the battery level again. If that is close to what you were doing, it is likely that the first level had not been updated yet from what it was before the device went to sleep.
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At the end of the day, owing to the screen/battery cocktail, that's 2 failing units out of 2. That computes to 100% lemon. 100% dud.

I maintain KA1 wasn't fit for release so soon. Stubborn facts demonstrate it.

P.S.: I should also note that all the above happened with, very probably, two different batches, since the reseller went out of stock between my first and second unit. So there's that.
Have you compared the serial numbers to see if they are from the same batch?
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Originally Posted by Zaroff View Post
Sorry to burst your bubble, but as far as I am concerned (quote me mentioning all the KA1 out there are lemons), it is indeed factually 100% dud. I didn't speak for others' units, I mentioned the two I had, in a row. Both of which indeed are badly flawed.
Yes, you have two devices that the firmware 4.1.7729 didn't help, and others have reported similar things. But the reports of it helping far outnumber the reports that it didn't. That suggests that it is your devices or something you are doing that is using the battery heavily. it could just as easily be a faulty device as faulty hardware.
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Other than that, there are other threads where not only such things re battery have been mentioned (which, again, as best I remember, didn't assert every KA1 out there meets their case), but also sport photo evidence of the ridiculous screen variations. Which makes choosing a KA1 a visual Russian roulette.

You may not like posts tarnishing your fave brand, but then again, had they gotten their act together (KA1 from what I can see generates many more problems than other models, I never had any worries with the Glo HD for example), these posts wouldn't spawn up as much as they are now. Eh.
And over the last couple of months while I have been running exactly the same firmware on my Glo HD as is run on the Aura ONE. I have been seeing unexpected high battery usage and I have seen those problems fixed with firmware 4.1.7729. There are obviously reasons that the Aura ONE would use power when the Glo HD doesn't and I can't test those, but I think the worst culprit was fixed.

Please note: I am not claiming that firmware 4.1.7729 is perfect. Obviously it is not. But, it is much better than the previous release.
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