I have a Kindle Keyboard which is a bit more than 5 years old. It needs debricking, but I thought I'd give it a new battery before debricking
With the new battery in (and the innards freshly dusted ;)), I plugged it into the mains to charge. It "rebooted" itself two or three times, but I'm used to that because it's waiting to be debricked so I didn't worry. The orange light was a bit slow to come on, but then stayed on.
Then after several hours, it hung on the home screen and became unresponsive to all keys and the slider.
That was yesterday - this morning the orange light had gone out. I tried to reboot by side-n-hold for more than 40 seconds but nothing. No light, no response. The device hasn't gone to sleep and still shows the home screen from yesterday.
1) Is this my fault for procrastinating about doing the debrick? I tend to live with very-slow and often-restarting (+ hardly any wifi-on time) as long as I can, because not only do I hate being without it for the 3 days' charging before debricking, I also keep a lot of personal documents on the kindle and re-sending them takes so long, effectively it means losing most. (This kindle has been debricked twice in its life.)
OR 2) Does it mean the new battery is a dud? All the printing on it is identical to the original battery, except that the original had a bar code.
OR 3) Does it mean the kindle itself must be replaced? (:( Can't afford that.)
I'm asking here before putting the old battery back in... hoping for useful replies soon! Thank you. :)
With the new battery in (and the innards freshly dusted ;)), I plugged it into the mains to charge. It "rebooted" itself two or three times, but I'm used to that because it's waiting to be debricked so I didn't worry. The orange light was a bit slow to come on, but then stayed on.
Then after several hours, it hung on the home screen and became unresponsive to all keys and the slider.
That was yesterday - this morning the orange light had gone out. I tried to reboot by side-n-hold for more than 40 seconds but nothing. No light, no response. The device hasn't gone to sleep and still shows the home screen from yesterday.
1) Is this my fault for procrastinating about doing the debrick? I tend to live with very-slow and often-restarting (+ hardly any wifi-on time) as long as I can, because not only do I hate being without it for the 3 days' charging before debricking, I also keep a lot of personal documents on the kindle and re-sending them takes so long, effectively it means losing most. (This kindle has been debricked twice in its life.)
OR 2) Does it mean the new battery is a dud? All the printing on it is identical to the original battery, except that the original had a bar code.
OR 3) Does it mean the kindle itself must be replaced? (:( Can't afford that.)
I'm asking here before putting the old battery back in... hoping for useful replies soon! Thank you. :)