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Old 11-05-2017, 07:53 AM   #1
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new Oasis battery life

I hope my battery just needed a full charge/drain calibration.

I received it on October 31 with a partial charge. I charged it all the way and it updated to the latest firmware.

The battery died last night.....so that would be 4 days including having read 200 pages with light at 12 of 20.

I only have 3 books on the Oasis so I don't think it was burning battery indexing. Wifi on, Bluetooth off.

How has your battery experience been with the new Oasis?

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Old 11-05-2017, 08:40 AM   #2
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So far my battery life has been exceptional. I have only loaded a few books and am on wifi only. No 3G and did not connect bluetooth until today but on my one charge from last Tuesday I was at 53% today. I have been reading about one to two hours per day. That seems pretty good to me.
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Old 11-05-2017, 09:29 AM   #3
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It's early days yet, but on my last charge I got about 16 hours of reading, which falls quite a bit short of any Kindle I've ever owned. Hopefully it'll settle down with use. But it recharges very fast. I read yesterday until it gave me notice at 10% that it needed charging and it went to 100% in just a little over an hour.

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Old 11-05-2017, 09:56 AM   #4
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yes, it does seem to charge pretty fast. I'm interested to see if the battery after the next full charge/discharge cycle last more than 200 pages.

It also seems to drain kinda fast in sleep mode which might be part of the reason it died after only 4 days.

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Old 11-05-2017, 03:56 PM   #5
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Wifi on, Bluetooth off.
usually 'wifi on' is the killer of battery.
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Old 11-05-2017, 05:02 PM   #6
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Yep. It’s certainly been the case with earlier Kindle models that turning WiFi off roughly doubles battery life.
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Old 11-05-2017, 06:03 PM   #7
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For most devices, battery drain increases as wifi connection quality decreases.
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I pretty much have to keep Wifi on all the time when I'm reading. I use the dictionary a lot and often from there I go to Wikipedia for more information. With Wifi turned off it all becomes very distracting.

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Old 11-05-2017, 06:59 PM   #9
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yeah, I will try turning wifi off but I left it on with my Voyage and that would last a lot longer when reading and the battery would barely budge in sleep mode for days.
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indexing is a surer killer of battery than wifi. of course i loaded up about 2500 book which took 24 hours to index but before i connected it so it'd have power, it drained the battery.

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Old 11-06-2017, 05:38 AM   #11
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I am finding the same. Wifi off is much better, but leaving Wifi on it can drain the battery visibly. TBH, I am having library issues with my Oasis so I was thinking the device might be constantly trying to sync which might explain the battery drain.

I'd be interested to read more peoples experiences here.
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I keep my wifi on at all times but both at home and at work the signal is very strong.
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Old 11-07-2017, 08:07 AM   #13
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The same with mine: yesterday fully charged it, loaded some 100 books, battery drained overnight. Maybe it's indexing but the problem seems serious enough; this would be the most expensive Kindle with shortest battery life.
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So with the full charge up on the 5th I have now read 98 pages with the brightness between 9 and 12, wifi on bluetooth off and my battery is at 50%.

This looks to be right in line with 4 days and 200 pages of my original post which seems crazy low.

Even if wifi halves the battery life as some claim, that would be 8 days of charge which is still just a tiny bit off from the 4-6 weeks advertised.

I'll play the rest of this battery out and then leave wifi off for the next cycle and see how much of a difference it makes.

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Old 11-07-2017, 08:54 AM   #15
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The same with mine: yesterday fully charged it, loaded some 100 books, battery drained overnight. Maybe it's indexing but the problem seems serious enough; this would be the most expensive Kindle with shortest battery life.
Why say "maybe it's indexing"? Look and see if it's indexing. Indexing processes can and do get stuck, and will drain the battery like crazy.
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