12-05-2021, 01:55 PM | #1 |
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Paperwhite 4/2021 battery life
I took advantage of the Cyber Monday sale and bought a 2021 Paperwhite.
I charged the thing up, but have not used it yet. So, it's been sitting asleep on my dining room table for a week. I turned it on today and my battery level is at 17%. Is this normal? I don't recall any of my other eReaders draining this quickly when not in use. |
12-05-2021, 01:56 PM | #2 |
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And I now realize the 2021 Paperwhite is not the Paperwhite 4. My Paperwhite is the new 2021 edition with the 6.8" screen.
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12-05-2021, 02:06 PM | #3 |
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I’ve had my 2021 Paperwhite for a little over 2 weeks and the battery life is the best I’ve ever had on any e-reader. So there’s definitely something going on with yours. Charge it up and put a book on it and see if the drain continues would be my advice.
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12-05-2021, 02:25 PM | #4 |
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It's sitting at 99% and doesn't seem to want to go to 100%. I'll leave it sit for a few more hours and see what happens.
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12-05-2021, 04:15 PM | #5 |
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I had this experience with a battery dropping alarmingly fast on a brand new Kindle a couple years ago and indexing didn’t seem to be the reason for it. After charging it back up it didn’t happened again and has been normal. I keep my Kindles in airplane mode and Bluetooth off to keep the batteries from quickly draining.
If your battery continues to drain really fast I’d recommend exchanging the Kindle. |
12-05-2021, 04:19 PM | #6 |
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Recharged it. It's been close to 2 hours now and I'm still at 100%. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow.
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12-06-2021, 09:27 AM | #7 |
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the issue that it stays at 99% for a long time is normal. on my Kindle Paperwhite 4 (not the 2021 one) i have this too. it usually helps if you charge it 1 hour or so longer. if you then disconnect it and wait 2-5 minutes or so it jumps to 100%. Kindles just seem to don't display the correct battery charge sometimes so its showing you 99% even if its fully charged.
my PW4 as an example shows its charged completly by its green led, but it still says only 99%. if i then keep charging for a while it is 100%. sometimes it also jumps to 100% from 99% if after i disconnect the charging cable. so.. don't worry about that. its normal. |
12-31-2021, 11:43 PM | #8 |
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What sort of battery life are you getting? After jailbreaking my PW3 battery life has improved even more compared to the stock software, 1.1%/h when the screen is on and 0.04-0.06%/h idle drain. Airplane mode all the time so far.
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01-01-2022, 01:35 PM | #9 |
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I’m afraid my claim of a long battery life is purely subjective. I read a lot—5 or 6 hours a day and I’m getting 6 days per charge. In comparison, on my Oasis, I get at best 2 days.
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01-02-2022, 10:33 PM | #10 |
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OK. Oasis by all accounts seems to suffer from sub-par battery life. Probably because of the small battery I guess.
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01-03-2022, 11:00 PM | #12 |
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I haven't noticed my PW 2021 showing much battery drain from setting asleep, and the WiFi stays on all the time. The WiFi is off when the PW is asleep. I have verified this by checking my WiFi router logs. Now I have to admit that my PW has been used almost daily except over the Christmas weekend. Over the Christmas weekend, well 4 days and 5 nights the Battery drain was 1% less than what it was the last time I used it before that weekend.
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