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Old 02-24-2017, 08:58 PM   #824
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Originally Posted by masterz87 View Post
Also when reading a cbz file if you page flip too much(it happens randomly) it'll close out the book.
I don't remember hearing of that before. I don't normally read comics, but I'll have to try it.
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Also the battery remaining % is worthless. Does it need to get "broke in" as laptop batteries do wherein you do 2 full discharge/recharge cycles when you get it and then use it normally and every month do a full discharge/recharge to get it to work better?
The battery is a Li-Ion cell, so calibrating the power meter like you do for a laptop could be useful.
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It went from 40% to 10% over the course of one night in sleep mode. And others are getting 60-70hrs of battery life wherein I only got ~27hrs from a charge till it died.
Dropping by 30% overnight is very high. But, it can do an automatic sync overnight and if this has trouble, the batter usage can be high.

And comparing the battery usage to others is a bit hard. It depends so much on how you use the device. While reading, the power usage is basically when turning the page. While you are reading the page, the CPU will go into a low power mode, and use very little power. So, a slower reader will get more battery life than a fast reader. Or if you are simply flipped through the pages, the battery will be used a lot faster. As you mention CBZ, I have always assumed these end up using more power. The size of the files, plus rendering the image for each page and they seem to be quicker to read than a page of text, should mean more power is used than for a text novel.
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