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Originally Posted by davidfor
If you had posted this first, then I would have said it was a dead battery. But, above, you do say it was running after disconnecting from USB until you let it sleep.
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That is correct: it *was* surviving a disconnect before.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
How long was that? A few minutes or a lot longer?
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It's hard to tell. I'd say 10-15 minutes?
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Even then, a battery at the end of it's life could fit what is happening. Some will appear to charge, but, don't actually retain any charge, or very little. It will depend on the battery and exactly how the charging circuit works.
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What is confusing is that the battery does not *appear* to be discharged: it was at 100%, and seemed to be charging...
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Originally Posted by davidfor
But, as you opened it to change the SD card, you should check you haven't accidentally unplugged the battery.
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So that's one thing I was wondering about. *Can* I unplug the battery? I had the feeling it was just soldered on there... And if it's unplugged, wouldn't the UI notice and tell me somehow? Is there a way to confirm that the battery is plugged in through a shell?
I did try to fiddle with the battery connector once I realized that could be the problem. Couldn't find an obvious way to fix the connexion...
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Originally Posted by davidfor
For the setup, that could be something blocking the connection to the Kobo servers. I haven't been to "Planet Ocean", so I have no idea whether they do or not. If that is the case, you will need to use a VPN or manually install the update. Of course, then you hit the problem of the device not running when disconnected from power.
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We all live on "Planet ocean"
"How inappropriate to call this planet 'Earth' when it is quite clearly 'Ocean'. - Arthur C. Clarke" I'm in Canada, FWIW.
And now that you mention it, I wonder if that "stock sdcard" really is stock. I was surprised to see it booted in KFmon at first, i might have already have hacked the darn thing, and therefore `/etc/hosts` might be blocking kobo servers :/ This is surprising since i did try a factory reset: I would have expected that to wipe /etc/hosts...
Thanks so much for the ideas, more leads to go ahead with!
