Help - Battery Life Too Short on K1

[Silver]

Any KBers out there who might have an answer to this one, please?  My battery drops by about one quarter every day, without Whispernet being turned on at all.  When I do use Whispernet for a download, my battery immediately drops another quarter - every time.  I figured my original battery was finally about to give up, so I replaced it.  I fully charged up the new battery and prepared to get a few days reading on this new one without daily charging.  Wrong!  Still getting exactly the same indicators - one quarter drop, more with Whispernet.  Got my K1 for Christmas, 2008.  This situation has been going on for a couple of months.  Any ideas?  Just keep charging it up every morning until it finally dies?  Or is there something I'm missing?

[marianneg]

I would try to keep going, even when it says the battery is getting low.  I've heard that, even though the battery itself doesn't need conditioning, the meter in the electronics might need to be recalibrated.  It can't really hurt to try.

[Betsy the Quilter]

Two questions:

1.  Are you using the original charger to charge it?  Or a 3rd party such as iGo
2.  What's your normal charging regime (or at least with the original battery)?  Do you charge every day?  I've read that it's good to let the battery die down completely every now and then (good thing as I do that unintentionally) to reset the "recharge" status.

Betsy

[Ann in Arlington]

I found mine started draining faster after loading a lot of books at once. . . .even though it appeared to have finished indexing it would still be drained after a day.  So I did an overnight charge and then restarted it while still plugged in the next morning.  It's been fine since then.  I've had my K1 since June of 2008