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Paul in Saudi · 11-27-2009, 10:03 AM

Time for an update; it is important that we share our experiences here, especially the strange ones with each other.

I am now on Gregory's 5th Kindle. You have to admire the replacement policy.

Despite all sorts of resets and a new battery Kindle #4 still showed weird batter drainage. Since it was out of warrantee, they charged me $95 for a reconditioned (I suppose) K1. Fair enough.

All my content, save one or two New York Times editions made it to the new machine just fine.

I have no idea what caused the battery problem. It persisted even with the wireless turned off. That implies a hardware issue. Along the way I did remove the custom screensavers; they seemed to conflict with a recent software upgrade.

So all seems well at the moment, although I would have been happier if we could have identified the problem with more certainty. Off I go to Saudi with a new K1.

Thank you all for the help.

11-27-2009, 10:03 AM	#13
Paul in Saudi Connoisseur Posts: 55 Karma: 61 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Amazon Kindle	Time for an update; it is important that we share our experiences here, especially the strange ones with each other. I am now on Gregory's 5th Kindle. You have to admire the replacement policy. Despite all sorts of resets and a new battery Kindle #4 still showed weird batter drainage. Since it was out of warrantee, they charged me $95 for a reconditioned (I suppose) K1. Fair enough. All my content, save one or two New York Times editions made it to the new machine just fine. I have no idea what caused the battery problem. It persisted even with the wireless turned off. That implies a hardware issue. Along the way I did remove the custom screensavers; they seemed to conflict with a recent software upgrade. So all seems well at the moment, although I would have been happier if we could have identified the problem with more certainty. Off I go to Saudi with a new K1. Thank you all for the help.