Battery Life

[faoronin]

Well I got mine on 3/25 and have been using mine VERY regularly. I have read at least 400 pages on it. But i'm little concerned about battery life. I've had to plug it two times after the initial charging. I don't see this lasting a week much less two weeks on single charge. I'm not sure it'll last two days.


any one else care to share thoughts on this?

[faoronin]

quick update on this.. I charged it fully (?) and read for about 45 minutes and it went down one bar battery life in that short period.

[danibugg]

I'm a little concerned with my battery life too...I've been busy so I haven't been using it too regularly, but I used it for about an hour on 3/24 and the battery life went down one bar. I didn't turn it on from then until this afternoon 3/27 and it didn't turn on at all - battery completely dead.

Any suggestions for how to extend the life on the battery?

[Yau-Hsien]

Following this kind of issues, I wonder that if playing music wastes large amount of battery power than flipping books and that how to discharge battery if I want to take time for recharging.

Update: I've tried listening an mp3 about half hour and the battery down one unit. F.Y.I.

[faoronin]

Ok this morning (3/27) I woke up to a fully charged eslick. used it in the morning a bit as posted above and went down one bar after only about 45 minutes.

Now having spent a total of about 5 hours on it, it's completely dead. shut down on me by itself. I have not loaded any MP3 on it so that's not my problem.

I'm not VERY concerned, but hoping it's just a bad battery.

[Yau-Hsien]

Well I got mine on 3/25 and have been using mine VERY regularly. I have read at least 400 pages on it. But i'm little concerned about battery life.

I'll check my battery life for pure reading for you.

Update: Today I've tried playing musics, and it lasted about 6 hours. The sleep mode "never auto off" was set.

[cdw79]

I've been having battery problems since I received my eSlick. I lost a bar nearly every time I turned it on. I haven't even finished 1 book in the time it took to drain down.

Last night I let it charge overnight, just to make sure I'd given it plenty of time to get to a full charge. This evening I turned it on, and it froze. Showed a bunch of snow in a line down the left of the screen. I had to use the Reset button twice just to get that off.

Then I tried plugging it in. It came on then--only to tell me the battery was completely dead, and shut itself off!

What the heck's happening? I know this is a new device, but seriously. This kind of battery life wouldn't be acceptable for a tiny mp3 player, let alone a brand-new ebook reader.

[happynut]

Agree, the battery lasts far less than 8,000 pages as claimed.

[zkong]

Is everyone still having this issue? I read somewhere that sometimes the battery takes several charges to get to its max capacity, but it seems like it will fall way short of 8000 pages.

Just curious, did this issue occur at all in the testing stage?

[Gamblor]

I USB charged my eslick to full last night then turned my PC off with the device still connected. Powered my reader on this morning and lost a few bars on the old battery monitor. Whether the device was left on or not overnight I’m not sure (pretty sure it wasn’t). But I'm very sure I didn’t turn any pages in my sleep last night. I was under the impression that user activity on an eReader lead to majority of its battery loss is this misnomer? Is there something that can drain the battery in a fairly short period without interactivity? bar the mp3 player which I have not bothered with as of yet.

[faoronin]

i'm not seeing any improvement in my battery life.

and seeing a new issue with the screen.. it's not centered well, or shifted cause i'm loosing the right side of the screen.

[danibugg]

Battery life, charge 2, was a little better than the first one. Fully charged Friday morning, read intermittently from Friday until today (Weds) when the battery finally ran down. I estimate that I only read about 500 pages on it though -- I wonder if the frequent power on/offs wear the battery down more than just a page turn?

The odd thing was that the battery showed no bars (even when fresh off the charger) for the entire week.

Is it possible to overcharge Li batteries?

[dracodoc]

I believe it's a bug of software.
E ink reader should have a very low discharge when it is not in use, starebook shares same hardware with eslick, if starebook don't have battery life problem, it must be some bug of eslick software.

[happynut]

Agree, there might be a loop or something continuously running in the background.

[Onumad]

Starebook runs at 250Mhz (or 200Mhz?), but eSlick runs at 400Mhz, can this to influence in the battery life?

(Sorry for my bad english :))

[faoronin]

StarEbook gets an 800mAh battery with a slower processer.
eSlick has an 750mAh battery with a faster processor.

eSlick battery life isn't going to be as good unless the screen makes that much of a difference (it doesn't)

[christina]

I believe it's a bug of software.
E ink reader should have a very low discharge when it is not in use, starebook shares same hardware with eslick, if starebook don't have battery life problem, it must be some bug of eslick software.

We are testing on this .....

[christina]

Starebook runs at 250Mhz (or 200Mhz?), but eSlick runs at 400Mhz, can this to influence in the battery life?

(Sorry for my bad english :))

I think they are unrelated.

[faoronin]

thanks for the update Chirstina.

Little update from me.. Had it charging all night, light was off this morning. Turned it on and it's down two bars. turned off/on and read a few times flipping around just to see if it would fix itself. Even used the reset button. still down two bars.

I would also like to add that when the unit showed no battery life, it turned itself off. so either it was out of power, or it's using the "battery life" indicator to shut itself down.

[hitter44]

I have the same problems, Charging al night and the in the morning I can`t even start it up! But if I charge it for about 3 hours it works for about 300 pages and then it is dead! Also I have the feeling that this battery is losing power without the e-slick being on!

[danibugg]

I charged mine all night - the battery still shows no bars, but the reader continues to operate (Probably about 100 pages off this charge so far). Weird, and a little annoying because I don't know when it's actually going to be out of batteries.

[BobAtWork]

Had my eSlick for a over a week. I like the device but it just doesn't maintain a charge.

I can completely charge the device and it will show full bars. I can use it all day without much battery change. I will turn it off, stow it in my bag for a day, pull it out, and it will be absolutely dead.

Smells like a firmware problem ... though, I could have a bogus battery.

[ebencooke]

Brand new eSlick here, experiencing the exact same problem. Sometimes, when I leave the eSlick to charge overnight, it will turn on in the morning with only one bar of battery left, but then it seems to run for a long time even with just one bar. Sometimes it will show one bar, I'll turn it off, and when it comes back on it will show full battery or 3 bars. Hoping for a firmware upgrade soon. Maybe foxit could go opensource with this project, so we can fix it ourselves!

[christina]

Hello ebencooke, sorry for this, we are investigating the battery issue. We need your help to provide us the following info:
1. Your sleep mode setting
2. When you left eSlick to charge, was the device turned off or in a sleep mode?

If you have any other observations, please let us know.

Thanks.

[wanchope]

I never use the sleep mode. Always press that power button if I stop reading. But still my battery doesn't last just a bit more than todays.

And it happened once that I fully charged the device till that red light went off, and just left it there then turned the device on about 4 hours later. Only 2 bars remained on the battery indicator.

[christina]

I never use the sleep mode. Always press that power button if I stop reading. But still my battery doesn't last just a bit more than todays.

1. What type of files you are reading? Do you play musics while reading?
(Complex files and playing music discharge more quickly,especially in no sleep mode)
2. How many hours it last?

And it happened once that I fully charged the device till that red light went off, and just left it there then turned the device on about 4 hours later. Only 2 bars remained on the battery indicator.
Since you are no in sleep mode, it will charge even you are not reading. But this makes sense to us. Thanks.

[wanchope]

It just lasts maybe 5 hours in total, and approximately 500 pages. I never play music on the device at all, since I'm aware of its battery issue.

I'm not sure if I get your point in the second answer. The battery had only 2 bars remaining when I first turned it on after a full charge. It apparently somehow discharged itself. And you are saying it makes sense?

[foxitupbaby]

There's apparently a problem with how the battery is being read by the eslick (from what they've said) and they're working on a software update to fix that. One thing you may want to try that I did is to turn the volume down to mute if you aren't using that feature.

[michael83815]

There's apparently a problem with how the battery is being read by the eslick (from what they've said) and they're working on a software update to fix that. One thing you may want to try that I did is to turn the volume down to mute if you aren't using that feature.

I did this too and it helped.

[wanchope]

Thanks for the update!

[christina]

Hello wanchope, does the way foxitupbaby mentioned work for you too?

[wanchope]

I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

[rollydudez]

Following this kind of issues, I wonder that if playing music wastes large amount of battery power than flipping books and that how to discharge battery if I want to take time for recharging.

Update: I've tried listening an mp3 about half hour and the battery down one unit. F.Y.I.

i think you need a new one..:1_12:


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[Hexar]

It just lasts maybe 5 hours in total, and approximately 500 pages. I never play music on the device at all, since I'm aware of its battery issue.

I'm not sure if I get your point in the second answer. The battery had only 2 bars remaining when I first turned it on after a full charge. It apparently somehow discharged itself. And you are saying it makes sense?

I have the same problem.