Glo Still have serious battery issues

[dmapr]

Originally Posted by jackastor

Then I wonder if there is an internal short in the card somewhere? Do you have access to an electron microscope? pretty much the only way to find out and the procedure would destroy the card at any rate. Those cards are very thin and delicate and it could have happened during shipping and handling, I have sent a cards back to Lexar to get replacements (Lexar was the brand I had an issue with)under warranty it is possible for you to do the same with your card hopefully.

regards

Good luck

I decided it wasn't worth the trouble to do anything with the card. I originally bought it for the phone but KitKat has significantly diminished the value of having the external storage. I don't have any need for any external storage on the Kobo, I only put the card there since it was an empty slot

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by susaz

I'd blame more the card reader than the card itself. Yesterday I put the same card into the Nook ST Glow and it read and opened beautifully... I'd blame some software glitch of the card reader...

I guess a faulty card reader could cause the same problem, but when I first got my Glo I had a card that caused the battery to drain 4-5 times faster than normal and replacing it with another card fixed the problem, so in my case it was the card itself at fault.

My faulty card operated perfectly except for the increased battery drain. The battery drained whether or not there were any books on the card, and only when the device was active (there was no drain at all in sleep mode).

However if the card reader itself was faulty then an option would be to do without an external card and upgrade the internal card instead.