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Originally Posted by JoeC
After you replaced the battery what kind of reading time did you get? I’ve thought about trying to replace it myself but I can’t tell what difference it would make.
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It didn't fix it all, which is what leads me to believe it's not a battery problem.
The issue is this....the cover battery works fine and behaves as expected. The Kindle battery, if you are reading without the cover, drops sharply every time you turn on the wifi, or if you leave it in sleep mode for a while (sometimes 20%, sometimes it will say it's completely drained). And once it does this, as soon as you start charging it again, the battery rapidly charges (because...it isn't REALLY discharged).
And if it's plugged into the cover when you are done, 50% of the time it never goes into "deep" sleep mode, so then it constantly drains the cover's battery.
I've tried to recalibrate the battery: nothing.
If you read with the cover attached, it all behaves better. The only issue being, as I stated above, if you leave it on the cover when done, it may not go into deep sleep mode, and then continue to drain the cover's battery.
My conclusion after all this? My original battery was probably fine...it's the Kindle itself that's screwball.
So now I tend to just ignore what the heck the Kindle battery level is, because it's not reliable.