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Suspicions aren't enough of course. The only way we as users are going to know with any certainty is a) Kobo admits to a problem (more chance of the Pope advocating condoms) b) have a reasonable sized group of us agree to a common testing regime in which both affected parties and non-affected parties with Touches and Glos adopt a common set of settings and test on free epubs. This should at least prove or disprove whether the hardware is at fault. The biggest problem with b) is finding a statistically significant number of people (especially those unaffected) willing to give up the two weeks or so (2 tests - good settings/bad settings) necessary to do this. End result = |
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02-27-2013, 02:16 AM | #93 |
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Just for fun I charged my Glo to 100% and put it to sleep at 9pm on Monday. At 9am on Tuesday I flicked it on just to see what it was at and it still read 100%. At 9pm on Tuesday evening I flicked it on and it had dropped to 99%. And I noticed that I had left WIFI turned on for the 24 hours that it was asleep.
It would be interesting to see how long it will last in sleep mode but I'm not sure I can leave my Glo unused for that long! |
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Having said that, I thought I was getting better battery life doing that. However, my Glo dropped to 0% (Please charge...) last night, giving me only 109 hours (4.5 days) of use from 100% to 0% I did see a difference this time when I plugged it in though. I made sure I started it up from "Please charge..." to completely empty the battery. I was able to turn it on four (!!) times, so there must still have been a lot of battery reserve left. And when I plugged it in, the percent was actually at 1%, like it should be, instead of 11% or 33% right away like I saw with my first Glo. So. Although I have bad results right now, I'm still hopeful this battery is better than my last... though, actually, 4.5 days... pff that's ridiculous. Quote:
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Sameer has stated our battery life problems are unlikely to be caused by the battery. Kobo is looking into it. |
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02-27-2013, 09:03 AM | #99 |
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Aha this is more promising (the hitherto unconfirmed firmware bug I was looking for?). I just wished they could have been more forthcoming about this beforehand and can but hope they will engage with us more in the future. Being open about problems fosters trust and builds a better relationship based on co-operation. Gosh that sounds rather Star-Trekky doesn't it?
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I was all but certain that I wouldn't have had *3* bad Glo's in a row. For the time being, I'm having it power off after sleeping 15 minutes, but that's certainly a sub-optimal solution. Looking forward to a fix. |
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That's what I would have thought. I only mentioned it because I have a vague recollection of people talking about older Kobo models and subscribing to magazines. Apparently if WIFI was turned on then they would wake up every so often from sleep mode and check to see if there were any updates to the magazine subscriptions, even if you didn't subscribe to any magazines. At least I think that's how it used to work, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
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02-27-2013, 05:14 PM | #105 |
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Thanks for clarifying that, my memory isn't what it used to be and I just remembered something to do with sleeping, WIFI and subscriptions.
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