05-23-2017, 05:42 PM | #1 |
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Kobo Aura Edition 2 Battery Drain
Greetings,
I recently purchased a Kobo Aura Edition 2 to replace my 5 year old Kobo Touch as my main ereader. My reading habits haven’t changed. I have noticed that the Aura’s battery lasting about 1 to 1.5 week between charging. Whereas, the Touch’s battery would last about 3 to 4 weeks. The Aura setting are: wifi is disable, sync is off, sleep cover is off and the light is off. The software version is 4.1.7729. Per Kobo’s customer service, I did a factory reset and am experiencing similar battery drain. It’s an odd battery drain. One day, I am reading (for 1 hour) the battery settings will read only 1 or 2 percent drop. The next day, one hour of reading shows a 13 or 15 percent battery drain. My question is: 1) is this normal for the Aura Edition 2? 2) what firmware has the best battery management? Thanks |
05-24-2017, 12:43 AM | #2 |
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If you are using firmware 4.1.7729, it is right in the middle of changes made fix bugs that sapped the battery. At the very least, the next two releases had more fixes. Some of these might have been specific to the Aura ONE, but others should have helped with all devices.
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05-24-2017, 08:43 AM | #3 |
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Somewhere I saw a link to firmware releases and will try your suggestion. I'll read through the bugs reports. Think I will try to upgrade the firmware manually versus via Kobo desktop (or wifi). I don't care much for the new Home screen.
Thank you very much. I was most dishearten to see the battery charge was not on par with my Touch. |
06-16-2018, 01:40 AM | #4 |
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kobos are bad
lets be honest here: there are many complaints about kobos, especially the aura series across the internet. There isnt some problem with these devices, rather, the product itself is just bad.
I own a kobo but in all honesty, theres no reason to buy an aura 2 when you compare it to the kindle paperwhite 3. Same price and the paperwhite beats the kobo in almost every major category of competition. For all those reading, just buy a kindle and be done with it. You can use calibre to convert books anyway. |
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06-16-2018, 08:24 AM | #6 | |
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in the case of aura 2 its worse than the paperwhite 3 in almost every respect and on the whole, the aura series seems to have inconsistent battery life. |
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06-16-2018, 12:14 PM | #7 |
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I don't have any battery problems with my Aura Ed. 2. You might want to contact CS to have it replaced under warranty.
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06-16-2018, 01:00 PM | #8 | |
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"lets be honest here: there are many complaints about kobos, especially the aura series across the internet. There isnt some problem with these devices, rather, the product itself is just bad. I own a kobo but in all honesty, theres no reason to buy an aura 2 when you compare it to the kindle paperwhite 3. Same price and the paperwhite beats the kobo in almost every major category of competition. For all those reading, just buy a kindle and be done with it. You can use calibre to convert books anyway." I mean its fint that you love kindles but its weird that you post something like that on the kobo section of the forum... almost makes me think you are Bezos. So please stop being so biased because of your own experience while many including me have a great ride and am glad i went from kindle to kobo. |
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06-17-2018, 12:23 AM | #9 | |
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