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Old 01-16-2017, 03:52 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by KecajN View Post
I could not find any source of Kindle Voyage replacement battery with international shipment. So I contacted Amazon support. They do not allow emails, only phone and chat so I had to spend a couple of hours online with them (4 sessions, each ~30 mins). They wanted me to do:
- Unregister and register Kindle back (I had to recover all ~50 collections manually i.e. download them separately from cloud, content of collections and ebooks remained)
- Peform 40 secs power reset with register/unregister as above. After it was implemented battery life increased to 1.5 days.
- Perform factory reset (additional support session to disable Parential Controls, it did not work as documented). After factory reset I lost all content and I had to upload all ebooks from PC (majority of my documents are non-Amazon). Again I had to recover my collections manually but this time all collections were empty so I had to repopulate all collections from scratch (hard task with ~50 collections and ~600 ebooks). This time battery life span increased up to 4.5 days. (I guess that it was due to purging filesystem garbage that Kindle lefts after deleting volatile content.)

Finally Amazon admitted that battery discharges too quickly but they do not sell replacements. Instead they offered me ... 15% discount for any Kindle device.

I do not consider it as very generous offer. At the end of year sales discounts were even higher (at least in EMEA) with free shipping.

Replacement battery (providing that it would be available) would cost me $40 - $50 including international shipment. Kindle Voyage WiFi at 85% is about ~$170 plus shipping and taxes.

I will have to live with this 4.5 days battery for now...
Silly question. How many hours a day do you read?
Their estimates for battery life are based on half an hour a day.
I don't remember if that is for one or two months without a charge.
If it is 2 months and you read approximately an hour a day then you would need once a month.
If you read 2 hours a day then every two weeks.
If you read 4 hours a day then once a week.
Now if it says a month then it would be
1 hour = 2 weeks, 2 hours= 1 week and 4 hours= biweekly.

So is it the battery or your habits?
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