Glo Bad battery or Glo HD?

Trilkhai · 12-08-2016, 04:36 PM

A couple of weeks ago, I was reading on my secondhand Kobo Glo HD late one night when it froze up. I restarted it, but even though the battery had been at 25% at my previous glance, the "Your battery is low 0% remaining" error screen came up.

I figured I'd misread the battery indicator and plugged it into my computer to charge up. The error screen stayed in place, but then the Kobo began rapidly heating up, so I unplugged it. It continued to get hotter, so I rushed it outside and placed it on the cold concrete; after a while, it finally cooled off.

Since then, plugging it in causes it to heat slightly, but otherwise has no effect. I tried unplugging the battery & microSD card for several minutes the hitting the power button and pushing the ‘reset’ button (as that seems to work with many electronics), but still no luck.

Anyone have any suggestions? Does it sound like replacing the battery would be at all worthwhile, or more like the Kobo Glo HD somehow fried its poor little brain?

Byron4120 · 12-09-2016, 12:56 AM

My glow HD did the same. When plugged in to computer some say excessive current - resetting USB port. Some multi-port charger kill the port until unplugging charger resets the ports. Battery could be the issue as mechanically the HD micro-sd port and MB seem to be fine.

chithanh112 · 12-13-2016, 11:47 PM

Did you use KSM and Koreader? In my case, the battery always drains abnormally after I installed KSM

12-08-2016, 04:36 PM	#1
Trilkhai Meow? Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: NorCal Device: Kobo Glo HD	Bad battery or Glo HD? A couple of weeks ago, I was reading on my secondhand Kobo Glo HD late one night when it froze up. I restarted it, but even though the battery had been at 25% at my previous glance, the "Your battery is low 0% remaining" error screen came up. I figured I'd misread the battery indicator and plugged it into my computer to charge up. The error screen stayed in place, but then the Kobo began rapidly heating up, so I unplugged it. It continued to get hotter, so I rushed it outside and placed it on the cold concrete; after a while, it finally cooled off. Since then, plugging it in causes it to heat slightly, but otherwise has no effect. I tried unplugging the battery & microSD card for several minutes the hitting the power button and pushing the ‘reset’ button (as that seems to work with many electronics), but still no luck. Anyone have any suggestions? Does it sound like replacing the battery would be at all worthwhile, or more like the Kobo Glo HD somehow fried its poor little brain?

12-09-2016, 12:56 AM	#2
Byron4120 Enthusiast Posts: 31 Karma: 24 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: State of Washington Device: KOBO Touch	My glow HD did the same. When plugged in to computer some say excessive current - resetting USB port. Some multi-port charger kill the port until unplugging charger resets the ports. Battery could be the issue as mechanically the HD micro-sd port and MB seem to be fine. Last edited by Byron4120; 12-09-2016 at 12:58 AM. Reason: typos

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12-13-2016, 11:47 PM	#3
chithanh112 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2016 Device: Kobo Glo HD	Did you use KSM and Koreader? In my case, the battery always drains abnormally after I installed KSM

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