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Talldog · 06-14-2009, 11:31 AM

I got it Friday afternoon, charged it, registered, loaded my books and put it away for a trip to a campground. Whispernet was off because coverage is spotty at my house, and I rarely use it. I did some reading late Friday night and put it to sleep with pretty much a full battery. When I turned it on 9-10 hours later on Saturday morning, I had the critical battery warning. I charged it up again, did more reading yesterday and this morning (over 24 hours later) it's still showing a full battery.

So after that, I decided to fire up Whispernet and go to MobileRead to see what problems people were experiencing. After a few minutes, I was not seeing any coverage bars even though AT&T and Verizon have excellent coverage at this campground, so I decided to enter the URL anyway, figuring I'd get the "no coverage" message. After several minutes of nothing, I found that I could move the cursor around, but no links or anything would respond. No menu, no nothing. I turned it off and the screen went blank, and it wouldn't turn back on. I held the power button to reset, and it wouldn't respond to that until the 3rd or 4th try.

It seems fine now, but I haven't tried to use the browser again.

06-14-2009, 11:31 AM	#1
Talldog Addict Posts: 293 Karma: 1431716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Connecticut Device: Kindle Paperwhite, KDX Graphite, Surface Pro	Anyone seen these 2 DX problems? I got it Friday afternoon, charged it, registered, loaded my books and put it away for a trip to a campground. Whispernet was off because coverage is spotty at my house, and I rarely use it. I did some reading late Friday night and put it to sleep with pretty much a full battery. When I turned it on 9-10 hours later on Saturday morning, I had the critical battery warning. I charged it up again, did more reading yesterday and this morning (over 24 hours later) it's still showing a full battery. So after that, I decided to fire up Whispernet and go to MobileRead to see what problems people were experiencing. After a few minutes, I was not seeing any coverage bars even though AT&T and Verizon have excellent coverage at this campground, so I decided to enter the URL anyway, figuring I'd get the "no coverage" message. After several minutes of nothing, I found that I could move the cursor around, but no links or anything would respond. No menu, no nothing. I turned it off and the screen went blank, and it wouldn't turn back on. I held the power button to reset, and it wouldn't respond to that until the 3rd or 4th try. It seems fine now, but I haven't tried to use the browser again.