K5 Help: Battery replacement Kindle Touch

[davisrs]

After several years of use, the battery in my beloved kindle touch is dying and it can no longer hold a charge.

According to ifixit, it should be a fairly easy procedure to replace the battery. Unfortunately Amazon does not appear to sell kindle batteries. However a google search turns up a website called newpower99.com which offers replacement batteries for $24 plus shipping. Has anyone here had experience with them in the past?

Battery status after 24 Hours of charging:

[root@kindle kvncviewer]# /usr/bin/powerd_test -s
Powerd state: Screen Saver
Remaining time in this state: Unknown
defer_suspend:0
suspend_grace:0
prevent_screen_saver:0
drive_mode:off
Battery Level: 6%
Last batt event at: 6%
Charging: Yes
batt_full=0
Battery logging: On

[WaseemAlkurdi]

Originally Posted by davisrs

After several years of use, the battery in my beloved kindle touch is dying and it can no longer hold a charge.

According to ifixit, it should be a fairly easy procedure to replace the battery. Unfortunately Amazon does not appear to sell kindle batteries. However a google search turns up a website called newpower99.com which offers replacement batteries for $24 plus shipping. Has anyone here had experience with them in the past?

Battery status after 24 Hours of charging:

[root@kindle kvncviewer]# /usr/bin/powerd_test -s
Powerd state: Screen Saver
Remaining time in this state: Unknown
defer_suspend:0
suspend_grace:0
prevent_screen_saver:0
drive_mode:off
Battery Level: 6%
Last batt event at: 6%
Charging: Yes
batt_full=0
Battery logging: On

Since I also have had the misfortune of a Touch dying on me after only a couple weeks since purchase, I'm obliged to tell you that sometimes, it's the Kindle itself which has died. Try another Kindle's battery to check before you go ahead and waste your money on buy a new battery.

Anyhow, batteries are cheap on eBay and Chinese vendor sites like AliExpress (about $10-$15). Don't buy genuine Amazon batteries because all of them are probably toast today.

A cheaper solution is to take apart the older battery and take the Amazon battery's controller board out, then soldering it to a new Li-Polymer battery (like that for a drone or something, can be had for cheap at general electronics stores). It's basically two drops of solder and you're good to go.
If you want to go down that route, see these threads:
Geekmaster's guide: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=274761
My own experience (succeeded, but the Kindle itself turned out to be dead):
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...29#post3881029