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.