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Originally Posted by jgoguen
- Train the battery (drain, charge, drain, charge). Been doing this basically as long as I've had my Clara! The battery drains, I charge it up to full before using it, then I normally don't plug it in again until it's drained. Which has meant I'm normally plugging it in once or twice daily.
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Don't do this! Or at least, don't do it more often than once every 6 months or so, and don't do it twice in a row for sure!!
You only have to drain it once and then give it a full charge and that resets the charge controller chip's idea of the battery's health. Every time you do this, it reduces the battery's lifespan by some percentage. It use to be 20% but I think current lithium polymer batteries it's less than that.
The recommendation I've seen is to only do this if the battery life seems artificially short, and if it doesn't fix it, don't do it a second time.
Personally, I almost never intentionally drain my batteries to retrain, because in a 6 month period of time, it's very likely I'll have done it through normal use at least once. The kobos sip power so gently that this is less likely, but it does still happen.