odd battery issue

[monkeygirl351]

Hello,
 I have have kindle 3 that I got this past christmas. Anyways, it has been doing great, and I can get about 2-3 weeks on a single charge with reading 2-3 hours a day and occasionally downloading a few books. Well I charged up yesterday morning, and connected to calibre to put a few books on it it I believe like 10 or so. Then charged till full. I forgot to turn off wireless till last night and notice that my battery was at about 75-80 percent. I turned off wireless and read for about 2 hours last night. I checked to see if anything was indexing and it wasn't. This morning I checked and my battery was at about 50 percent and i thought that was crazy as I had charged the day before. Still no indexing or stuck books, so I decided to top off my battery and try again. Wireless is off and I didn't put any more books on it. Hopefully that was just a fluke because at that rate I would have to charge in 2 days. Anyone else have that issue? It is at the latest firmware and no other problems.

[kindleman]

Did you turn off indexing in debug mode?

[HankP]

My K2 does this from time to time.  I usually can go a couple of weeks without recharging.  Every now & then it will go down to 20-30% overnight without the 3G turned on.  I do a "hard reset" by holding the power switch 30 seconds until it reboots. All is well for another 6-8 months.
Hank

[monkeygirl351]

Well it did it again last night. I didn't even read last night but this morning battery was at 50 % or so. I did a reboot where I held the on switch on and it turned off. I then turned it back on and put it on the charger again. Should I do a factory wipe and readd all my books? I am kinda worried as I am going on a trip soon and don't want any issues.

[monkeygirl351]

Actually I don''t think I held the switch long enough, i found the restart setting in settings under menu. It turned off and rebooted so hopefully that works. In the meantime, I'm going to leave it on the charger fro a few hours after the green light turns on. I want to make sure i have a good full charge. Hopefully the battery indicator was just giving a false reading and that rebooting sorts everything out. i don't think I rebooted since I got it in January.