[robertpolson]

Here is the situation - I bought PRS 900 on February 2, 2010, charged it fully and turned it on. I have never used it daily for about 20 minutes or so. However, I think that I have not been shutting it down properly. I only slided the power switch gently and quickly and was amazed on how fast it turns on and off. I think that all that I have been doing was putting the screen to sleep and not shutting it off. Still I have used it very little.

On Feb 4th, I flashed it with the Russian firmware 1.03b for PRS 900. All worked fine.

Today Feb 6th in the morning when I picked up my device, I could not turn it on. I had to press the reset button and then it turned on with BATTERY LOW message. The battery was almost fully dead.

Is the battery dead because:

1) I have not been shutting PRS 900 properly until I realized it this morning? But if I only used it for 20 minutes daily, shouldn't it last much longer than 4 days ? Stand by or something?

2) Russian firmware has something to do with the battery ?

3) I have a defective PRS 900 or the battery >

4) Something else ?

Please help while I still have 10 days to return or exchange it.