My Kindle Touch has died all of the sudden, even though its battery was at 100%. (I was doing some "dev" experimenting, but I took a break and used it as a normal Kindle in the few days prior to this because life took over)
- Hard reboots cause it to either restart and freeze at the Kindle Tree/Boy logo, or not restart at all, or at the progress bar (once or twice).
- It actually managed to fully boot once or twice (and the status bar battery meter reads 100%), but it freezes after a few moments.
- Booting to USB HID results in the correct USB HID device showing up, and imx_usb could flash it, but it won't reboot to the selected mode (diags/fastboot) (save for one time when it actually did boot to diags).
- Note that the Kindle Touch has been in my possession for only two weeks. Prior to that, it was shipped by air mail, and it arrived with a "plug battery in" image (no text). (Not sure how they do it, but mail carriers do something to discharge batteries to zero % prior to shipping).
- I have charged it for four hours back then. I planned on a 24-hour charge, but since it showed 100%, I thought that four hours was enough.
Note that when I cracked it open, I noticed that it was on its original battery with a date of 2011.
- It's now on a wall charger.
Do you think it's simply an aging battery or a dead one?
- Hard reboots cause it to either restart and freeze at the Kindle Tree/Boy logo, or not restart at all, or at the progress bar (once or twice).
- It actually managed to fully boot once or twice (and the status bar battery meter reads 100%), but it freezes after a few moments.
- Booting to USB HID results in the correct USB HID device showing up, and imx_usb could flash it, but it won't reboot to the selected mode (diags/fastboot) (save for one time when it actually did boot to diags).
- Note that the Kindle Touch has been in my possession for only two weeks. Prior to that, it was shipped by air mail, and it arrived with a "plug battery in" image (no text). (Not sure how they do it, but mail carriers do something to discharge batteries to zero % prior to shipping).
- I have charged it for four hours back then. I planned on a 24-hour charge, but since it showed 100%, I thought that four hours was enough.
Note that when I cracked it open, I noticed that it was on its original battery with a date of 2011.
- It's now on a wall charger.
Do you think it's simply an aging battery or a dead one?