PRS-600 Battery issue with my 600 - Page 2

JanetCinNC · 09-04-2009, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Grandma Aubbie

Which cover are you using? I'm not having the same problem YET, but I have a strap that looks like it may press on the volume button.

I have the gray with black strap M-Edge cover for the Sony PRS-505 that Amazon has been selling for $15. I've been using for the past couple of days on my new 600. I hope there is a way to fix these things - I bought 4 of them!

jswinden · 09-05-2009, 08:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JanetCinNC

I have the gray with black strap M-Edge cover for the Sony PRS-505 that Amazon has been selling for $15. I've been using for the past couple of days on my new 600. I hope there is a way to fix these things - I bought 4 of them!

I was using a Sony case made for the 505, the one that had that awful light built into it. I removed the light and was using just the case. The 505 cases are just a mm or so too shrt for the 600, but they will fit. My standard Sony case for the 600 arrived yesterday and it is now being used.

The battery issue seems to be clearing up.

Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions.

Juliette · 09-05-2009, 11:15 AM

Sorry to pop-up right out of nowhere (and yet without the PRS-600, for the moment), but isn't it possible that the battery just needs calibration? Basically, do a couple of complete charge/complete draining of it. I don't know exactly why the interaction between power usage/batttery firmware/physical battery have to do that, but usually works quite well. Happened with electronics as wide as: iBook, MacBook Pro, Aspire One, EEEPcs, iPods of various species, a Walkman, cell phones of all persuasions, a Cybook Gen3, curiously not on the PRS-505; it might exactly have been what happened to Lily's Kindle 2.

Quote:

Originally Posted by JanetCinNC

I have the gray with black strap M-Edge cover for the Sony PRS-505 that Amazon has been selling for $15. I've been using for the past couple of days on my new 600. I hope there is a way to fix these things - I bought 4 of them!

UHM. My cover is on its way, so I guess I'll have to be super-attentive on that too... thanks!

JanetCinNC · 09-05-2009, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Juliette

UHM. My cover is on its way, so I guess I'll have to be super-attentive on that too... thanks!

I really like the M-Edge cover, and since it only cost $15, I decided I'd fix it. I just used my tiny Swiss Army knife scissors and cut a little chunk out of the offending strap. The strap is made of vinyl, so hopefully it won't stretch out and no longer hold the reader in that corner. I'll see how my battery works now.

jswinden · 09-05-2009, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Juliette

Sorry to pop-up right out of nowhere (and yet without the PRS-600, for the moment), but isn't it possible that the battery just needs calibration? Basically, do a couple of complete charge/complete draining of it. I don't know exactly why the interaction between power usage/batttery firmware/physical battery have to do that, but usually works quite well. Happened with electronics as wide as: iBook, MacBook Pro, Aspire One, EEEPcs, iPods of various species, a Walkman, cell phones of all persuasions, a Cybook Gen3, curiously not on the PRS-505; it might exactly have been what happened to Lily's Kindle 2.

UHM. My cover is on its way, so I guess I'll have to be super-attentive on that too... thanks!

The manual actually does say to completely discharge and charge the new battery several times (through several cycles) and then it will reach its peak performance.

We have two cats. The one pictured in my avatar is bad about walking on or lying on electronics, so she might have been a contributing factor.

Juliette · 09-05-2009, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by jswinden

The manual actually does say to completely discharge and charge the new battery several times (through several cycles) and then it will reach its peak performance.

That's it!

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We have two cats. The one pictured in my avatar is bad about walking on or lying on electronics, so she might have been a contributing factor.

Your cat has the unabashed solidarity from mine, who redecorated the house the week she came in. Those humans... (then again she proceeded being afraid of the silly Nabaztag for months- speaks and move ears, must be alive

)

Justice Strike · 09-13-2009, 07:23 AM

just out of curiousity... how long does the prs600 last when playing non stop mp3? are we talking about less then a day? I would suspect that a modern mp3 player would last atleast a couple of days

Riocaz · 09-14-2009, 05:45 AM

On Sat afternoon I decided to test how many pageturns I could get out of a fully charges 600 (I was looking for excuses to return it, if I decide too)... And yes I did this manually, clicking the page button once every second or so.

After about 6600 or so pageturns, it gave me a low battery sign, it was still going strong after the 10000th page. At which point I gave up. :-)

Obviously this won't take into account the trickle of power used when it's in standby, but it's significantly mroe than I ever got with the 505.

sunnyfish · 09-18-2009, 05:24 PM

Thank you, this information is quite valuable. I counted my reading hours, a full charged battery gave me about 20 hours( reading only, no mp3 or search or else), which is about 2000 pages in total. Comparing with the 6000+ pages you’ve got, I suspect that my battery is defected.

MelC · 09-19-2009, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by sunnyfish

Thank you, this information is quite valuable. I counted my reading hours, a full charged battery gave me about 20 hours( reading only, no mp3 or search or else), which is about 2000 pages in total. Comparing with the 6000+ pages you’ve got, I suspect that my battery is defected.

If you have read the rest of this thread you will have seen that it often takes a full "drain and recharge" cycles before your battery recognizes its full capacity. If you haven't tried that already you may want to before sending it back as every device is likely to have this problem out of the box.

Mel

schmolch · 09-19-2009, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riocaz

On Sat afternoon I decided to test how many pageturns I could get out of a fully charges 600 (I was looking for excuses to return it, if I decide too)... And yes I did this manually, clicking the page button once every second or so.

After about 6600 or so pageturns, it gave me a low battery sign, it was still going strong after the 10000th page. At which point I gave up. :-)

Obviously this won't take into account the trickle of power used when it's in standby, but it's significantly mroe than I ever got with the 505.

LOL, how long did it take?
Once a second would be 10000/60m=166m

"Darling, i miss your company, wanna go to a movie?"
"Sorry sweety, i need to do something"
ROFL

dylenol · 09-26-2009, 05:42 AM

I am on my second charge right now. First one was pretty weak, t died after an 800 page book with minimal look-ups in the dictionary. I hope the next charge turns out better like the 10,000 turns above.

Dragon_Well · 09-26-2009, 10:53 PM

I've been experiencing a similar battery issue which has me somewhat stumped.

I've been using the book armor case. After a couple weeks of use, I noticed the plastic straps in the case which anchor the leather front and back flaps of the sony case in place had started to fatigue, and the reader had started to move around a bit too much for my comfort. So, I decided to put some heavy duty velcro I had lying around onto the sony case and velcro it into the book armor case. It worked beautifully, anchoring the reader securely, but still enabling me to pop it out of the case at will.

The extra 1/8th inch of padding or so from the velcro made the book armor case quite a snug fit for the reader. And I fear that therein may lay the problem.

Since making my little modification, my reader will now go dead whenever I have it zipped up in the case. I can put it in with a full charge and in sleep mode, and 3-4 hours later pull it out with a dead battery. The book armor case has plenty of room above and below the reader, so I know that the volume button isn't being pushed. There is, however, a fair amount of pressure being placed on the front buttons and touch screen, and I can only imagine that even though the device is in sleep mode, this pressure is somehow activating the touch screen and/or buttons and draining the battery.

I did some very unscientific messing around today with putting a heavy marble dish over a couple of the front buttons today to see if it reproduced the battery drain, but it didn't seem to. Which led me to wonder if the pressure over the screen could be having an effect?

Anybody noticed anything similar, or have any thoughts? It seems to me that in sleep mode, everything should be asleep, except the power button to wake up.

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09-13-2009, 07:23 AM	#22
Justice Strike Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: psr600	just out of curiousity... how long does the prs600 last when playing non stop mp3? are we talking about less then a day? I would suspect that a modern mp3 player would last atleast a couple of days

09-14-2009, 05:45 AM	#23
Riocaz Fulfilled but not by iRex Posts: 932 Karma: 286846 Join Date: May 2006 Location: London Device: Far too many	On Sat afternoon I decided to test how many pageturns I could get out of a fully charges 600 (I was looking for excuses to return it, if I decide too)... And yes I did this manually, clicking the page button once every second or so. After about 6600 or so pageturns, it gave me a low battery sign, it was still going strong after the 10000th page. At which point I gave up. :-) Obviously this won't take into account the trickle of power used when it's in standby, but it's significantly mroe than I ever got with the 505.

09-18-2009, 05:24 PM	#24
sunnyfish Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: sony prs 600	Thank you, this information is quite valuable. I counted my reading hours, a full charged battery gave me about 20 hours( reading only, no mp3 or search or else), which is about 2000 pages in total. Comparing with the 6000+ pages you’ve got, I suspect that my battery is defected.

09-26-2009, 05:42 AM	#27
dylenol Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-600	I am on my second charge right now. First one was pretty weak, t died after an 800 page book with minimal look-ups in the dictionary. I hope the next charge turns out better like the 10,000 turns above.

09-26-2009, 10:53 PM	#28
Dragon_Well Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 46 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: Astak EZ-reader, Sony PRS-600	I've been experiencing a similar battery issue which has me somewhat stumped. I've been using the book armor case. After a couple weeks of use, I noticed the plastic straps in the case which anchor the leather front and back flaps of the sony case in place had started to fatigue, and the reader had started to move around a bit too much for my comfort. So, I decided to put some heavy duty velcro I had lying around onto the sony case and velcro it into the book armor case. It worked beautifully, anchoring the reader securely, but still enabling me to pop it out of the case at will. The extra 1/8th inch of padding or so from the velcro made the book armor case quite a snug fit for the reader. And I fear that therein may lay the problem. Since making my little modification, my reader will now go dead whenever I have it zipped up in the case. I can put it in with a full charge and in sleep mode, and 3-4 hours later pull it out with a dead battery. The book armor case has plenty of room above and below the reader, so I know that the volume button isn't being pushed. There is, however, a fair amount of pressure being placed on the front buttons and touch screen, and I can only imagine that even though the device is in sleep mode, this pressure is somehow activating the touch screen and/or buttons and draining the battery. I did some very unscientific messing around today with putting a heavy marble dish over a couple of the front buttons today to see if it reproduced the battery drain, but it didn't seem to. Which led me to wonder if the pressure over the screen could be having an effect? Anybody noticed anything similar, or have any thoughts? It seems to me that in sleep mode, everything should be asleep, except the power button to wake up.

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