Thread: Sage Sage battery life
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Old 02-06-2022, 08:16 PM   #81
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Originally Posted by MGlitch View Post
Which still renders the cover effectively useless if it’s only giving approximately 10% of the full charge of the Sage. I haven’t seen much in the way of reviews for this cover but those I have had all been consistent in saying that it behaves as Sirtel described, which is good and bad. Bad because clearly it wasn’t ready for prime time, but good because it’s possible that it’s something that can be fixed. Though it might be a Forma lightbar issue where there’s something fundamentally wrong with the design causing the issue*.

I’ll agree with you it shouldn’t be 10% to 10% unless the battery in the cover is bigger since there’s going to be some loss in the charging process. But as it is I wouldn’t want to buy the case now and hope Kobo resolves the issue since it’s not a minor bug, rather it’s one that effectively makes the case pointless.
Your right, it is pretty useless as it is. But, there is absolutely no way that it is the intended behaviour. Something is wrong and hopefully it will be fixable with a firmware update to the device. As there were some battery life fixes for the Sage in 4.31, maybe someone with a PowerCover can try an older firmware version to check it wasn't introduced by these changes.

And for the record, @John Hopper appears to have said it is working correctly and as I would expect. But, @JSWolf responded to that post say, "That's not how it's supposed to work." I asked him how he know and he hasn't bother to tell us. When @Sirtel responded to that, I explained how I expected it to work. I missed that @Sirtel was trying to say that the PowerCover battery drained completely if it started charging the device battery. It was only @Sirtel's next post were it was clear, to me at least, what was actually happening. And that is behaviour I would be completely stunned to think was the intended behaviour.

The other person weighing in on this is @agugu. They have made a statement on how it is supposed to work: "it's supposed to charge the sage below 30%or 50%". I'll ask the same question that I asked @JSWolf, where do you get this information from? It is not mentioned anywhere I can see (the store page at https://au.kobobooks.com/collections...wercover-black and the help page at https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...ge-PowerCover-)
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