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Lynda

29 Oct 2012, 05:57 AM | Post: #1

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Paperwhite Battery life

I charged up the Kindle when I got it on Thursday. I have read for about 2 hours and already the battery was on minimum and I have had to charge again.
How long is your battery lasting?? I was expecting it to last same as my touch.

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sujay Reading The Glass Guardian by Linda Gillard

29 Oct 2012, 10:20 AM | Post: #2

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RE: Paperwhite Battery life

It should last longer than that Lynda, I would give it a really good charge and monitor how long it lasts. If it doesn't last longer than 2 hours I would give customer services a ring.

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29 Oct 2012, 01:48 PM | Post: #3

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RE: Paperwhite Battery life

The spec says 28 hours of use with wireless off and light set to 10.

Have you sent all your books to the new Kindle via Wi-Fi? Doing a lot of wireless transfers and the subsequent indexing could reduce the battery life significantly.

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29 Oct 2012, 02:15 PM | Post: #4

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RE: Paperwhite Battery life

Batteries in electronic devices no longer need 'conditioning', so providing you charged the unit up until the battery said 100%, it sounds like you could have a fault with your unit.

As Frogplate said, however, wireless transfer does munch up battery life!

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Lynda

29 Oct 2012, 07:27 PM | Post: #5

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RE: Paperwhite Battery life

(29 Oct 2012 01:48 PM)frogplate Wrote: The spec says 28 hours of use with wireless off and light set to 10.

Have you sent all your books to the new Kindle via Wi-Fi? Doing a lot of wireless transfers and the subsequent indexing could reduce the battery life significantly.

That could be it I sent about 200 books via wi fi. I have recharged the unit and switched to airplane mode so will see how it goes now.
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29 Oct 2012, 07:50 PM | Post: #6

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RE: Paperwhite Battery life

It'll take a few hours just to index that lot.

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30 Oct 2012, 07:14 AM | Post: #7

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RE: Paperwhite Battery life

That's probably the answer then Lynda. It will take a while to index them, so your battery may well run out again, but once they have done that things should settle down. Smile

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