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Old 10-04-2013, 09:37 PM   #1
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paperwhite battery charge???
sorry if this has been covered, I looked briefly, but anyway... I just got the paperwhite (no not the newest one). It seems that the battery is only lasting about a day and a half? I've tried it with airplane mode on and off, any other ideas as to what could be sucking so much battery usage?
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Old 10-04-2013, 09:42 PM   #2
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any other ideas as to what could be sucking so much battery usage?
Is something stuck indexing or did you just add a bunch of books? In my experience that can be a big battery drain on a Kindle.
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Old 10-05-2013, 11:36 AM   #3
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If you are talking about continuous reading with the "day and a half" then that's relatively normal; The estimate given by Amazon assumes that you are reading about half a hour daily -- not continuously for a month straight.

If you just got a new Paperwhite 2013 and decided to transfer all your old books, which seems more likely, it is almost definitely the indexing of all books (i.e. making them quicker searchable etc.).
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From my little experiments with PW 1st generation:

I. Battery life: 13 hours 32 minutes - LED brightness: level 24 (Full blast)

II. Battery life: 47 hours 39 minutes - LED brightness: level 10

III. Battery life: 49 hours 35 minutes - LED brightness: level 0 (lowest level)

Wireless is always off in all trials. Battery life doesn't include the time when the device goes to sleep.
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Old 10-06-2013, 12:30 AM   #5
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From my little experiments with PW 1st generation:

I. Battery life: 13 hours 32 minutes - LED brightness: level 24 (Full blast)

II. Battery life: 47 hours 39 minutes - LED brightness: level 10

III. Battery life: 49 hours 35 minutes - LED brightness: level 0 (lowest level)

Wireless is always off in all trials. Battery life doesn't include the time when the device goes to sleep.
To add to that, I have 3g always on. I get about 10-12 hours with brightness at 12, I believe depending on whether I read books or newspapers/magazines. With newspapers, the constant 'jumping around' seems to drain the battery faster.
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From my little experiments with PW 1st generation:

I. Battery life: 13 hours 32 minutes - LED brightness: level 24 (Full blast)

II. Battery life: 47 hours 39 minutes - LED brightness: level 10

III. Battery life: 49 hours 35 minutes - LED brightness: level 0 (lowest level)

Wireless is always off in all trials. Battery life doesn't include the time when the device goes to sleep.
Those statistics look good to me. I recorded session information in an Excel spreadsheet for several PW 2012 cycles with light at 22 (of 24) and WiFi always on and got the following:
1. 10:29
2. 10:08

With WiFi off:
1. 12:07

I'm running my first cycle for the PW 2013 with WiFi on and the light at 16 (of 24). I don't have any results yet.

I took Blossom's advice and will only use the light on both PW's at 16 from now on. Light level 22 was really too bright for maximum comfort.
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In addition to light level and wifi/3g on or off, would refresh choice affect battery usage? Meaning every page turn or every however many kindle defaults to.
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In addition to light level and wifi/3g on or off, would refresh choice affect battery usage? Meaning every page turn or every however many kindle defaults to.
I tried that and it doesn't make any difference.
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From my little experiments with PW 1st generation:

I. Battery life: 13 hours 32 minutes - LED brightness: level 24 (Full blast)

II. Battery life: 47 hours 39 minutes - LED brightness: level 10

III. Battery life: 49 hours 35 minutes - LED brightness: level 0 (lowest level)

Wireless is always off in all trials. Battery life doesn't include the time when the device goes to sleep.
OH!!! (Sorry about the tardiness of my response, I thought I had set myself up for email notification) I didn't know I could adjust the brightness! I had been wondering about that as it does hurt my eyes. I don't remember seeing that in the user guide?


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I tried that and it doesn't make any difference.
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