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Originally Posted by hacker
The battery life on my 2-week old Oasis, is absolutely HORRID. I find myself charging my Oasis from nearly empty to full 1-2 times a day, every day.
To validate that it's not just my reading activity, I charged the Oasis from 10% to 100% this morning. It reached 100% at 11:28am, and I left it closed, in standby mode, while I went to lunch.
I returned from lunch at 1:30pm, and opened the lid, bringing it out of standby mode. The battery read 77%.
Remember, it was idle, unused, closed and in standby mode with bluetooth off and airplane mode on (no wifi) for the last 2 hours. In those 2 hours, without a single page turn or wake-up, it drained 23% of its battery.
At that rate, in 8 hours of being idle, it would have nearly completely drained itself. If I was reading a book with the backlight on at all, it would drain itself in about 75% of that time.
Absolutely worst battery life I've ever had in any handheld product. My phone with all of its sensors, radios, bright backlight and smaller battery, lasts 24-48 hours between charges. This Oasis, is absolutely horrible with battery savings.
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This is not normal, even considering that the O2 doesn't last as long as my O1 or Voyage. I also have the basic with buttons and it is a very nice device still. I have had all but the K2 and that basic has the best contrast of any kindle overall.
But back to the O2 battery. I can get about 2 days out of mine, but I read a lot so that is not a concern as much. But even with that, when i am not using it, it goes down maybe 2 percent at most overnight. I'd have to check tonight, I know its not much. So 23% in 2 hours of not using it is not normal behavior. I assume you know nothing is stuck indexing as you have had kindles before so again I assume you know how to check for that stuff.
So your Oasis is either defect or something else is stuck. I know that when I first got mine, it was horrid to and it went down even if I didn't use it. I did something someone here suggested. Restarting it and then plugging it in a full overnight. I think that was the order. After that, I only lost couple percentages overnight when not using.
But yeah, something is not right if it goes down while not being used. Its not using light, no page changing, none of that.
eta: I type too slow. i see you found a bunch of non indexed books. Could it be that one is stuck? If the number stays the same that you know and you'll have to take them all of and start fresh. I don't think there is a way to find out which of the books is stuck, is there?
But at least that is an easy fix. You'll get much more normal usage battery once you get that worked out.