Aura ONE Kobo Aura One owners thread

[dmapr]

Originally Posted by Claude_C

I've read for a bit less than 2 hours last night. The battery was down to 85%.

Woke up this morning, its was at 84%.

No wifi, no auto-sync. No sleep cover.

So, I guess it's fine, if you consider that Kobo says that the battery is suppose to last 1 month if you read only 30 minutes per day. That gives around 15 hours of reading time.

If sleep takes away about 1% a day, then over a month you'd lose 30% for sleep only. So in theory you should be able to read for 15 hours on an approximately 70% charge, unless of course the math does not apply to the battery usage

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ratinox

Er. That's terrible. You should be reading dozens of books on a charge, not one or two. Do a factory reset and then immediately install the updates. Don't do anything else with the ONEs until the updates are installed.

Ummm... dozens of books on a charge? I manage to read 7 to 12 books on a charge and feel I am doing quite well. With a battery life of about 15 hours, reading dozens of books on a charge would need you to spend around 38 minutes reading each book assuming the minimum 'dozens' to be 24. Once you get past the Dick and Jane level of reading, I would expect it to take a bit longer to read a book.

[kansaskyle]

Woo hoo - my KA1 arrived!

I don't know if my inquiry with Indigo made any difference, but it went from

Ordered Friday, January 20 --> shipped Tuesday, January 24 --> arrived in Texas January, 27

I'm setting it up now. I really like the textured back so far and the thinner design compared to the H20.

I see it updated to 4.2.8283.

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Ummm... dozens of books on a charge? I manage to read 7 to 12 books on a charge and feel I am doing quite well. With a battery life of about 15 hours, reading dozens of books on a charge would need you to spend around 38 minutes reading each book assuming the minimum 'dozens' to be 24. Once you get past the Dick and Jane level of reading, I would expect it to take a bit longer to read a book.

Okay, I exaggerated a bit.

[Pjama]

Originally Posted by kansaskyle

Woo hoo - my KA1 arrived!

I don't know if my inquiry with Indigo made any difference, but it went from

Ordered Friday, January 20 --> shipped Tuesday, January 24 --> arrived in Texas January, 27

I'm setting it up now. I really like the textured back so far and the thinner design compared to the H20.

I see it updated to 4.2.8283.

That's great! I love reading on mine so much - I really notice the difference in quality of font and kerning and placement on the page. It looks so much like a page from a book after being used to the kindle line.

Mine updated to 4.2.8283 also.

The battery does drain a little quicker than I am used to, coming from the Voyage, but hopefully that will settle down. Anyhow, the pleasure of reading on this larger screen with properly tooled fonts more than outweighs any potential battery issues for me. Plus I love my Moko tree cover too.

[Gone]

Originally Posted by dmapr

If sleep takes away about 1% a day, then over a month you'd lose 30% for sleep only. So in theory you should be able to read for 15 hours on an approximately 70% charge, unless of course the math does not apply to the battery usage

Too many numbers, you're confusing me...

[Pjama]

Not to mention the pleasure of getting free books to read from Overdrive! It's amazing to me... now I can devour even more books without weighing up the pros and cons of whether to buy them or not.

[icallaci]

Originally Posted by ratinox

Originally Posted by icallaci

I updated two Aura Ones to 4.2.8283 without doing a factory reset, and both of them (one is my daughter's) have noticeably better battery performance. I actually read an entire book on one charge. I still wish they'd use a bigger battery, but I can live with this.



Er. That's terrible. You should be reading dozens of books on a charge, not one or two. Do a factory reset and then immediately install the updates. Don't do anything else with the ONEs until the updates are installed.

I read longish books and I take my time. I am happy with one or two books per charge, which was not happening with previous firmware versions on the One. Now it is, so I'm good with it.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Pjama

now I can devour even more books without weighing up the pros and cons of whether to buy them or not.

So THAT's where they're all gone!

*Read* them, not *eat* them. Unless you're Worf.

[Mingyar]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Could you describe this autonomy problem please.

The problem was that the Kobo was 100% charged at midnight, at noon, opening the cover to read during lunch, surprised to see 43% left !

Originally Posted by ratinox

Factory reset, then install firmware updates.

I didn't make a factory reset. I connected the Kobo to Kobo Desktop to establish the first connection. Kobo Desktop downloaded fw 4.2.8283.

To late to make new tests, the kobo has been returned today and me refunded.
In fact, the low memory (6.5 Go) unextensible was the 2nd reason to release this model.

Hope Kobo will propose a new model with same screen than teh aura one but with SD port and no battery pb.

[Gone]

Originally Posted by Mingyar

The problem was that the Kobo was 100% charged at midnight, at noon, opening the cover to read during lunch, surprised to see 43% left !



I didn't make a factory reset. I connected the Kobo to Kobo Desktop to establish the first connection. Kobo Desktop downloaded fw 4.2.8283.

To late to make new tests, the kobo has been returned today and me refunded.
In fact, the low memory (6.5 Go) unextensible was the 2nd reason to release this model.

Hope Kobo will propose a new model with same screen than teh aura one but with SD port and no battery pb.

I have zero battery problem with my new Kobo Aura One. I updated the firmware through wifi.

You came here to get advices but didn't follow them.

It seems your mind was already made.

Kobo has the biggest storage for an ereader. And frankly, I can't understand why someone would feel bad about having "only" 6 000 ebooks on his a device.

[Katsunami]

I've just had problems connecting the KA1 running version 4.2.8283 to my computer to replace a book.

Yesterday I put a book on it, and today I noticed it had a big, but simple to fix layout issue. So I fixed it (actually being a typo in the CSS, getting an important class ignored), and wanted to replace the book.

Couldn't get the reader to connect. Same computer, same port, same cable, same software everything. Tried three cables. Nothing. In the end I kicked the USB-assignments using Nirsoft's USBDeview (that person should get a medal for his/her utilities, honestly), rebooted the computer and the reader, and then tried a different USB-port. Now it works again.

As I can't believe I have a defective USB-port (everything else I connect to it always works, including my old KPW1), or have heaps of defective cables lying around, I have to come to the conclusion that the USB-connectivity of the KA1 is bad. Kobo should look into that. It probably has something to do with a buggy USB subsystem in the kernel they use. (The Kobo's do run Linux underneath, don't they?)

[Mingyar]

Originally Posted by Claude_C

I have zero battery problem with my new Kobo Aura One. I updated the firmware through wifi.

You came here to get advices but didn't follow them.

It seems your mind was already made.

Not at all. I didn't came here to get advice but to give my experience.
Thanks for all advices.

Originally Posted by Claude_C

Kobo has the biggest storage for an ereader. And frankly, I can't understand why someone would feel bad about having "only" 6 000 ebooks on his a device.

As I said, It's not 6000 but 4000 books max if you generate cover images for each book. With 4000 books on the device, 3 Go for the cover images ...

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by Mingyar

As I said, It's not 6000 but 4000 books max if you generate cover images for each book. With 4000 books on the device, 3 Go for the cover images ...

If you don't want to waste 3GB on cover images then don't generate 3GB worth of cover images. Problem avoided. Simple.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Mingyar

As I said, It's not 6000 but 4000 books max if you generate cover images for each book. With 4000 books on the device, 3 Go for the cover images ...

Well, I have 4095 books on my Glo HD. This has a 4GB card in it and 3.15GB available for books. There is still 826MB of free space. So, I don't know why you have an issue with space on the Aura ONE. And going back to your original post, what you described doing does not have the effect you seem to think it does.