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Old 11-26-2020, 01:32 PM   #1
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Kindle Oasis Extreme Battery Drain

I know it been talked to death but can't find the thread on it.


The past 2 days my kindle been draining 80% to 100% in one day. I verified that it is not stuck indexing and the screen is on sleep mode when not in use. It also will not charge to 100% it stops at 99% Any ideas other than indexing or a bad battery?
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Old 11-26-2020, 01:36 PM   #2
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As far as I can tell, there's a bug with most recent kindles (I've seen it on the 10th gen basic, Oasis 2, and PW3) with recent software where the firmware will get stuck in a state where the battery drains so quickly it even draiins despite being plugged in that's fixed by restarting the device.
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Old 11-26-2020, 03:08 PM   #3
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As far as I can tell, there's a bug with most recent kindles (I've seen it on the 10th gen basic, Oasis 2, and PW3) with recent software where the firmware will get stuck in a state where the battery drains so quickly it even draiins despite being plugged in that's fixed by restarting the device.
I restarted it a few times already
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I had it at one time and I reinstalled the last update manually and it took care of it.
But I did try to do a total reset of the kindle first and that didn't help.
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Old 11-26-2020, 03:36 PM   #5
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Did you load a comically oversized book within the last couple of weeks?

I've seen an Oasis 2 take a really long time, I think weeks, to index a Harvard Classics and Bookshelf of Fiction omnibus (which would have come in 71 physical volumes back in the day)
The Harvard Classics was originally known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf" (and that doesn't include the 20 volume "Bookshelf of Fiction")

EDIT: We're talking something that the Amazon description says is over 40k pages, although that's potentially misleading
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Old 11-26-2020, 07:18 PM   #6
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Did you load a comically oversized book within the last couple of weeks?

I've seen an Oasis 2 take a really long time, I think weeks, to index a Harvard Classics and Bookshelf of Fiction omnibus (which would have come in 71 physical volumes back in the day)
The Harvard Classics was originally known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf" (and that doesn't include the 20 volume "Bookshelf of Fiction")

EDIT: We're talking something that the Amazon description says is over 40k pages, although that's potentially misleading
No. Not large ebook purchases. Took the most recent update a long time ago as well. I went ahead and did a complete reset.
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Old 11-26-2020, 07:48 PM   #7
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I know it been talked to death but can't find the thread on it.
Two major Oasis 2 battery life threads (found by searching on the tag battery life with keyword Oasis) are:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=291881

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=314302

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The past 2 days my kindle been draining 80% to 100% in one day. I verified that it is not stuck indexing and the screen is on sleep mode when not in use. It also will not charge to 100% it stops at 99% Any ideas other than indexing or a bad battery?
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Old 11-27-2020, 01:12 AM   #8
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I am seeing this as well on two Oasis 3s. Yesterday, they had both been drained from full to 17-18% overnight. This is the bug we're all aware of (or so I thought, anyway). Rebooted, charged them up to 85%. Today, they were both drained to ~40% when I picked them up for the first time. Not used otherwise, no books indexing.

In fact, the reason I came here was to see if anybody else is seeing this.

I wonder if it might be related to the new "Furthest Page Read" dialog that just got pushed to my devices. I've only seen this in the last three days or so.

The drain is so wild that while I typed this message with the Kindle screen on, it drained 7% on the Oasis 3 I have next to me and I was seeing similar drain on the other one.

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Old 11-27-2020, 06:48 AM   #9
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Glad I'm not the only one. My Oasis3 can drop 20-30% overnight, for no reason. If it's a software bug wish there was some way to fix it. The few is 5.12.3 if that helps. Would manually updating do anything to improve things?
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Old 11-27-2020, 11:12 AM   #10
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Well, I did the manual update, going from fw 5.12.3 to 5.13.2, and it seems like the battery performance has improved. I've just read for over an hour, and lost only 2%. Before, I was losing over 5%. This is the performance described as good by Nathan at the Ebook Reader.com: https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/20...the-same-time/.

Hopefully, the sudden 20-30% drain overnight will have been stopped as well but will wait to see if this has been dealt with.
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I was already on 5.13.3 when I started seeing the extreme battery drain. It coincided with the new reading progress dialog update being pushed to my devices but I don't know that it's related.

I've drained my battery completely and I'm charging now and will see if that fixes it.
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I'm really unhappy with my Oasis. I have lost 5% in the last half hour or so, and yesterday it was fully charged but the next night it was already down to 72%, then this morning down to 52% and continuing to drop. I read at light level 8 most of the time, use dark mode at night. I do keep the wifi on, because I sync between my phone (Audible) and want that to work.

Compared to my Kindle Voyage, it's really, really bad.
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I been on the most recent update for some time. Now my Oasis will not charge above 98%. I left on charger for a long time and ill stops 98%
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I been on the most recent update for some time. Now my Oasis will not charge above 98%. I left on charger for a long time and ill stops 98%
It may need to recalibrate its charge meter.

Let it run down to however low you are comfortable with, then charge it to full.

If the battery is wearing out, 98% might be the maximum charge it can have.
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I’ve updated to the new firmware, and somehow it seems to have made a big difference! So much happier now.
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