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Originally Posted by Zekathon
Only nightmare is the charger, first time i charged it, it took several hours and the red light kept blinking and the display turned on and off - it seemed like the device thought it had been connected and immediately disconnected from a PC. I unplugged it with 80% charge. The next day, after intensive testing, i had to charge it again. I plugged it to the wall adapter and watched a movie and suddenly a very loud cracking noise happened and burned plastic smell filled the room. The wall charger burned out and kicked out fuses all the way thru two circuit breakers to main house fuses. So i claimed it. Got new one, guess what... it does the blinking again. Now, i am using old phone charger without any problems and with triple charging speed, although it has the same specs.
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That seriously sounds like whatever the charger you were using with it originally was bad and you're lucky they replaced the device for you as it wasn't Kobo's fault.
I've had the screen turning on/off thing with a phone charger and I would guess that it is related to it thinking it's connecting/disconnecting but I doubt that had anything to do with the charger shorting out.