Thread: Battery: reading vs sleep vs shut down
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Old 09-18-2018, 08:11 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by koboy View Post
isn't a shut down the best/only way for the database to update correctly/properly/100%

i always shut down and restart after sideloading a book/books.
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe View Post
@koboy: I'm sure @davidfor could expand on that, but, in short: no.
I agree with you on that one completely. If everything is working fine, there is no advantage to shutting down after sideloading books. And if things are bad, then shutting down doesn't actually help update the database. If the firmware can't write to the database during the normal operation, then it can't during the shutdown and it will be reading bad data from the database no matter what.

The only times I recommend shutting down in relation to the database are:

- As a test of a corrupt database. Though I'm not really recommending it, more that some problems are hightlighted afterwards.

- After restoring a copy of the database. In this case, you need to shutdown so that the firmware can reread the database from scratch. Without this, you might undo the point of restoring it.
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