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Originally Posted by Tarana
Failure of the power slider was what killed two of my 5 kindle 3's so far. I think you may have the same problem and it is the spring attached to the power slider. I was unable to find an appropriate new replacement spring. One guy bought my unusable kindle from me ($5) and replaced the spring with the spring from his screen damaged kindle 3 and that worked.
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Thanks for the suggestion!
I’m aware of the common K3 power slider/spring failure, but my symptoms don’t fully match a purely mechanical issue.
Key observation:
If I connect external power (USB charger) and reboot the Kindle while it stays connected to power, everything works normally and the issue does not appear.
The problem starts again
only after I unplug the power cable.
If it was only the slider spring/mechanics, I would expect the behavior to be identical regardless of whether a charger is connected.
So at the moment I suspect something related to power management / battery mode vs external power mode (or a battery/PMIC-related state), rather than the slider mechanism itself.
Did you ever notice your slider/spring failures behaving differently on charger vs on battery?