03-12-2010, 07:03 AM | #1 |
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iRex 800 quickly discharging
I've got it permanently in standby.
According to the description from iRex, after some time in standby (1 hour?), it shuts off. Still, after roundabout 4 days, battery right now was entirely discharged, without any usage at all. Can't be normal or can it? My Kindles "survive" weeks switched off. So either it doesn't switch off but remains in standby. Or it still runs dry even when switched off. Same happened to me with BeBook Neo about a week ago (*), whereas nook for example still shows more than 60% battery. And I always charge them at the very same time for the very same duration. (*) Can it be the WACOM tablets? Maybe they DO consume significant amounts of energy? I remember, tablets some years ago had been in permanent active mode, when the stylus hadn't been inserted. EDIT: Poll about the standby time users experience: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76866 Last edited by mgmueller; 03-12-2010 at 01:22 PM. |
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I am having the same problem.
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Sounds odd - and wrong. After four days with at least a couple of hours use each day I'm not going below 70%, and I posted earlier that after being away for three days and not touching the unit the battery had dropped by 13% - even that seemed a bit of a heavy drain. Are IREX saying anything?
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Mine is in airplane mode, and still discharging too fast
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Perhaps it's inaccuracy in measuring the charge, not the battery itself? I left mine off for a day or so on standby and saw it go down from nearly full to 82%. Plugged in the USB for about two minutes to side-load an ebook and it came up at 96%. It sure the heck didn't recharge that much in two minutes!
Edit: there may have been a full reboot between those readings as well. I can't recall. Last edited by Dellaster; 03-12-2010 at 09:57 AM. |
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Thanks for bringing this up because I have a feeling that mine was discharging very quickly as well. Like I posted earlier in another thread, my battery would drop over night quickly as well. I think no one really want to mention the elephant in the room. I mentioned in another thread,
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The first time I charged mine it went for 2 weeks before I needed to charge it again. That included a couple hours of reading per day.
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They've said 5 cycles for other devices, I don't know if they've said anything specifically for the DR800 though. Lasting only 4 days sounds like the meter would be WAY off if that's really the only problem.
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In the beginning, when posting my thread,I was using it more frequently. But now, when rarely using it, the drop in battery level becomes more obvious. And this morning it even was down entirely. |
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