Hello everyone,
Have done some searches here and elsewhere and don't quite know what to make of my battery drain problem. I thought that I was practicing good battery behavior (wifi off, turn off when not using, low light. I read 30 to 60 minutes a day. Prior to the 5.7.3 update I would sometimes forget to turn wifi off and saw no serious battery drain. Prior to the 5.7.3 update I'd get 10 to 14 days or so on a charge. I'd say that I'd recharge when I was at about 20 percent or so.
As far as I know everything is indexed. I have typed in some random nonsense characters to be sure.
My Kindle PW (6th generation) just updated to 5.7.3 three or four days ago. Interestingly, since then I seem to have some issues with the battery draining after only a couple of days. The first time was a day after the update and may have been my fault as I left it in wifi in sleep mode when the battery was at about 33 percent charged. It was prompting me to recharge the battery which I did two nights ago (over night).
I normally leave the kindle off when I am not using it or try to. Kindle was in airplane mode, no wifi. Had only read maybe three or four hours, an hour or so of that at a wifi hotspot where I had wifi on but turned off when I left. Tonight I went to use my kindle and it was again prompting me to recharge. Which I am doing as I write this. Prior to recharging, I restarted the kindle.
I thought that perhaps whispersync might be eating up the battery so I just turned whispersync off. I honestly don't recall if whispersync was on or off before the 5.7.3. update.
Any suggestions appreciated. I'll post back any updates.
Have done some searches here and elsewhere and don't quite know what to make of my battery drain problem. I thought that I was practicing good battery behavior (wifi off, turn off when not using, low light. I read 30 to 60 minutes a day. Prior to the 5.7.3 update I would sometimes forget to turn wifi off and saw no serious battery drain. Prior to the 5.7.3 update I'd get 10 to 14 days or so on a charge. I'd say that I'd recharge when I was at about 20 percent or so.
As far as I know everything is indexed. I have typed in some random nonsense characters to be sure.
My Kindle PW (6th generation) just updated to 5.7.3 three or four days ago. Interestingly, since then I seem to have some issues with the battery draining after only a couple of days. The first time was a day after the update and may have been my fault as I left it in wifi in sleep mode when the battery was at about 33 percent charged. It was prompting me to recharge the battery which I did two nights ago (over night).
I normally leave the kindle off when I am not using it or try to. Kindle was in airplane mode, no wifi. Had only read maybe three or four hours, an hour or so of that at a wifi hotspot where I had wifi on but turned off when I left. Tonight I went to use my kindle and it was again prompting me to recharge. Which I am doing as I write this. Prior to recharging, I restarted the kindle.
I thought that perhaps whispersync might be eating up the battery so I just turned whispersync off. I honestly don't recall if whispersync was on or off before the 5.7.3. update.
Any suggestions appreciated. I'll post back any updates.