05-28-2014, 03:33 PM | #1 |
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Kindle Touch battery problem
Hello, I have a Kindle Touch whose battery indicator says that it is nearly drained after having charged it for a few hours. It say that it is fully charged or close to it immediately after charging but the next morning it looks like it is nearly drained without having been used and with all wireless off.
I've added a few books in the past few days but not many so I don't know if indexing is the cause here. Could anyone please suggest a fix or is this a sign of impending device failure? Thanks. |
05-28-2014, 09:31 PM | #2 |
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Did you check to see if it is indexing? That is the most likely culprit in quick battery discharge. it only takes one corrupt file.
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05-29-2014, 06:38 AM | #3 | |
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Go to the home page and do a search for a random string. If it comes back and says "X items not yet indexed", you have an indexing problem. Indexing will very quickly drain the battery. Edited to add: Make sure that the search scope (the drop-down to the left of the search box) is set to "All Text" before you do the search. Last edited by HarryT; 05-29-2014 at 06:50 AM. |
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05-29-2014, 10:35 AM | #4 |
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Another resource to help is batteriesplus.com, this company knows everything about batteries. Although I think the advice that you have gotten already is correct.
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where do you guys buy battery? ebay or somewhere? any seller to recommend?
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Before buying a battery, did you check and see if you have an indexing problem?
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EDIT: I need to make a correction here. I have the same book on the other Touch, but it's not the same version. The one on the other Touch is one that reformatted in Calibre so I could remove the spaces between paragraphs. But the Kindle Basic is using the same version of the book (but it's possible that the Kindle Basic indexes differently?) At any rate, there's a difference. The Touch (the one without the index issue) is using a reformatted version of the book that was side-loaded. (Okay, I've downloaded the unrevised book from the Cloud and, at this point, have the index issue on it also.) Last edited by rcentros; 05-30-2014 at 07:16 AM. |
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Nope, looking at the logs will usually just help you pinpoint which book the indexer is spinning on, but nothing more.
Taking the 'kill it with fire' approach (clearing the index db (/mnt/us/system/...) & the catalog db (/var/local/cc.db) is the usual way to deal with this, when simply swapping/removing books doesn't do the trick. This has come up multiple times in the forum, feel free to launch a search with those keywords. I'm of the mind that, if it decided to fall on its face, it will fall on its face, no matter what. So, while a different file *might* help, I usually just wipe it and let it rebuild from scratch. Last edited by NiLuJe; 05-30-2014 at 11:58 AM. |
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I tried pidgeon92's and HarryT's tips about indexing and the tips worked! I had indeed added a few books prior to the drastic battery discharge but I discovered that I had many many titles which hadn't been fully indexed. The Kindle Touch apparently indexes both samples and purchased content. I deleted/archived 40-50 titles and that fixed the problem.
One of the titles I archived was a graphic novel, one of those "Longer download time due to file size" items. I don't understand why an e-reader would attempt to make a word index of a graphic novel. Maybe that file was the culprit. After archiving that title and many others, the battery is back to normal. Thank you! Last edited by LovesMacs; 05-30-2014 at 11:44 AM. Reason: Incomplete post |
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BTW, I wouldn't suggest "The Idiot" for anyone -- purely depressing. I've read two books by this author and that's enough. Maybe that's why the Touch was choking -- maybe it was trying to commit suicide. EDIT: I just checked the second Touch and it did complete the indexing of this book. So maybe I just had a memory corruption issue or something on the first one. The second time I downloaded the book to the first Touch I probably just didn't wait long enough for it to complete its indexing. Last edited by rcentros; 05-30-2014 at 02:25 PM. Reason: Added information |
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Indexing issues can affect any model Kindle, but they are relatively unusual. If you load books in small batches, and wait for one batch to finish indexing before loading more books, you're unlikely to have problems. Indexing goes a lot more quickly if the Kindle is connected to the wall charger.
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