Kindle Battery Surgery [Success!]

[Cinisajoy]

Without a jeweler's loupe, I can't tell you if the screws are identical.

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

I understand the screwdriver thing.
But then again if someone doesn't like the toolbox, they are more than welcome not to visit again.
Oh and the jeweler's screwdriver is on the second shelf of the desk.

Actually, it was the second shelf of the parts cabinet (for small parts) in my office. I have enough storage bins full of tools and parts to fill a barn. But in a house (basement and multiple bedrooms and part of home office), and a garage, and a shed, and other places. Awesome stuff, but how much time do I have left to use it? And I need SPACE more than all. Time and space are in short supply -- maybe I need a TARDIS?

[Cinisajoy]

Oh I understand that one. Between his stuff, my stuff and our stuff we need more room too.
We are in 1000 square foot house with 3 small outbuildings.

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Oh I understand that one. Between his stuff, my stuff and our stuff we need more room too.
We are in 1000 square foot house with 3 small outbuildings.

When I was growing up, the standard meme was "the man who dies with the most toys wins!". I know I cannot win. A casual friend (now dead) had a huge industrial warehouse with a forklift, for all his cool "toys". During his retirement, he would spend his time exploring his vast collection. I think HE won. His adult kids probably carelessly disposed of most of his treasures when he died (not wanting to pay rent or taxes on his warehouse). So really, happiness is a relative thing, and depends on a cultural perspective. My life perspective has recently changed. It is unlikely that I will live the six lifetimes I have prepared for, when my body and mind are slowing down and perception of time (relative to total time lived) passes faster and faster. My shrinks claim they would be filthy rich if they had a tiny portion of what I have left (after my Traumatic Brain Injury 20 years ago), but to me, I really feel the loss, and even more as it all slows down and speeds up at the same time. And where did this "old man's body" come from? I want my YOUNG body back!

[geekmaster]

No luck finding the modified battery frames. My projects were "put away" when we had visitors for dinner. Now they are gone. I found the dead LiPos, but not the parts I need. Sad... To be continued later (when I find my PW2/3 battery frames with circuit board). PW2 apart, ready and waiting for battery test...

I only remember where I last USED them. Just like everything my whole life. Finding a "place" for something that is logical and sensible for the CURRENT CONTEXT makes it impossible to find in the next context. Something about my indexing system. It is relative to memories of having USED the stuff, not having STORED it...

Perhaps technology can assist. But I would just "put away" (i.e. LOSE) those tech tools too. I have lost countless journals and notebooks when I attempted using them. They resurface years later... And journaling on hard drives is ineffective with the drive failure rate I have experienced (mostly seagate drives, which Google refuses to use for the same reason). And I need to index more than 300 hard drives and thousands of DVDs full of my stuff too -- huge codebases and documentation I wrote. That is WHY I post here -- somebody else backs it up, and I can access it from everywhere. Before social media, all my content got lost in storage just like my parts and tools. I make backups, which is why I have hundreds of drives, but those extra backups diverge as they get used, and need to be indexed and compared and merged, or something.

Most drive indexing tools fail when the index databases start to fill a hard drive. So I carved them into many pieces, but all those indexing databases are just more to keep track of and to lose. I need to write my own...

Anyway, I have far more electronic data than parts and tools. I have been a huge collector of scientific thesis documents and research documents and tons of code snippets (all vetted for no "GPL virus"). Many things collected BEFORE they went proprietary. Some things that just "disappeared" in a way that indicates they became classified. Whatever. A nice collection, at least what I can recover from backups or dead hard drives. Yes I have experience swapping drive platter stacks and head arrays. I have the tools and the experience. But not the desire. I want my data back, but I want to create new stuff too...

What is the most strange of all, is now and then I discover something truly AMAZING in my collection, something I wish I knew about long ago, something that could have saved me countless hours. Something I intend to learn now, finally. And then I discover who the original author was -- it was ME! I thought that was a symptom of my brain injury, but my older friends tell me that is a NORMAL part of getting old. Scary and disappointing. I have so much yet I haven't forgotten, and can easily relearn the stuff I documented that I forgot -- it would be sad to take it all to the grave. But how and when and where can I share it, when only a small portion of it is about kindles?

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by geekmaster

When I was growing up, the standard meme was "the man who dies with the most toys wins!". I know I cannot win. A casual friend (now dead) had a huge industrial warehouse with a forklift, for all his cool "toys". During his retirement, he would spend his time exploring his vast collection. I think HE won. His adult kids probably carelessly disposed of most of his treasures when he died (not wanting to pay rent or taxes on his warehouse). So really, happiness is a relative thing, and depends on a cultural perspective. My life perspective has recently changed. It is unlikely that I will live the six lifetimes I have prepared for, when my body and mind are slowing down and perception of time (relative to total time lived) passes faster and faster. My shrinks claim they would be filthy rich if they had a tiny portion of what I have left (after my Traumatic Brain Injury 20 years ago), but to me, I really feel the loss, and even more as it all slows down and speeds up at the same time. And where did this "old man's body" come from? I want my YOUNG body back!

I think we all want our young bodies back. Where did these hips come from?

[geekmaster]

Well, I am going to bed. Perhaps after some sleep the modded batteries will be easier to locate. Meanwhile, zzzz....

[knc1]

Originally Posted by geekmaster

PW2 screws out, back cover removed, battery out. Oops! Screws mixed together, some silver and some black. Other than color, they all look the same. Does it matter which go where?

Now, where is that modified battery? Time for another hunt...

Hmmmm.....

Maybe that is what happened to the other missing things.
They where put away 'by color'.

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As someone suggested last time this subject came up - -

Re-organize spouse's shoe closet 'by color' (or something else) for her next time she leaves the house.
Maybe she will get the idea.

Suggestions:
The ones with very high heels - those take up a lot of space, so the large spaced shelves in the garage would probably be the best place.

Got a 'canned goods' storage closet in the basement? They usually have close spaced shelves - those shoes without any heel at all pack best on the close spaced shelves.

Ones you never notice her wearing -
those stay in the usual 'shoe closet', by color, so they are easy to find and wear occasionally.


Ah...
Well, you get the idea.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

I think we all want our young bodies back. Where did these hips come from?

Disclaimer: No offense intended.

Mount keyboard and display on exercise bike maybe?

Even better -
Also hook up exercise bike to power computer.

I.E: You must exercise whenever sitting at the computer to make everything work.

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Me?
I am seriously considering "getting a life" (outside of Mobileread).

[Cinisajoy]

No offense taken.
I think you might have some good ideas.
I have noticed I get more done after leaving places.
Totally too much information: until I was 41, I was always underweight.
In my mid-twenties severely underweight.
I am 50 now and still adjusting although now I could afford to lose 10 pounds.
That was strange to type.

[geekmaster]

More TMI (the current subtopic): I was quite literally "twice the man I used to be" (twice the weight I was at university) about four years ago. I lost a LOT of that with a strict calorie restriction diet (with modifications recommended by my personal physician, intended to double my lifespan), but I got off that and started eating comfort foods again when I could no longer take the pain meds I had relied on daily for the last 20 years. Now the weight is slowly sneaking back, even while knees are begging me to get my weight back to my college days...

[geekmaster]

Whohoo! Found it! The midified "blue battery" was NOT in the back of the shoe closet. It was installed inside my dead PW2.

Now in my good PW2. Not booting. Need to find the charger now...

Charging and booting, now that it has power. Oh, DIAGS. Yeah that would be the CRP kicking in, eh?

But it is stuck in a boot loop now.

Will the CRP prevent me from charging a dead battery? The LEDs are at full brightness while booting. Hmm...

I think the coward's rescue pack needs a way to let me go into a normal bootup -- some kind of override, in cases where you want to boot MAIN while the battery is charging, when it is too dead to boot without it...

[geekmaster]

I guess with CRP installed, I need to remove my LiPo and charge it externally, then try this again. The boot loop is annoying, because it reboots when the bright LEDs drain the battery in the DIAGS menu.

Okay, this time it froze in the kindletree screen. At least the LEDs are not at full brightness. I will let it charge...

EDIT: No photos -- it looks the same as when installed in my "stone cold dead" PW2 (posted earlier in this thread, IF you can view them). The difference is that this PW2 works fine. I will try using it on battery only, after the amber "charging" LED turns green.

EDIT2: I guess if I want reliability on embedded images, I need to move them offsite, and use offsite embedded URLs in my posts in the future. I do realize that Alexander Turcic (owner and founder of MobileRead) has recommended that we use images at mobileread, but that was just a suggestion, not a "guideline".

[NiLuJe]

The CRP should only trigger a *single* boot to diags the first time the battery passes the required threshold. From there, rebooting to main and continuing charging should work. (Or simply staying in diags if you're really, really patient and want to deal with the crappy (dis?)charge behavior in diags. In which case, a simple plug/unplug cycle might also help).

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

The CRP should only trigger a *single* boot to diags the first time the battery passes the required threshold. From there, rebooting to main and continuing charging should work. (Or simply staying in diags if you're really, really patient and want to deal with the crappy (dis?)charge behavior in diags. In which case, a simple plug/unplug cycle might also help).

It was in diags with full-brightness frontlight LEDs. It would discharge and reboot, and the reboots triggered CRP. Though now it is frozen with frontlight off, so it can actually charge. I think it was crossing that threshold repeatedly, with LEDs discharging the mostly-dead battery (a sawtooth wave voltage curve on the battery).

A software/hardware "relaxation oscillator" of sorts, eh? Hmm... if you click that link, you will see that they renamed that too. Not only are the primary colors I was taught no longer RYB, but neon lamp oscillators are something else now too... It is bad enough when they teardown all the geographical landmarks we always navigated by, but now they are tearing down our language and knowledge landmarks too. I thought my "old man" aches and pains were all I had to worry about. But no, they must interfere with my brutally acquired social skills too. Young folks these days, why must you rename our good old stuff, and not bother to tell us?