![]() At this time, it lasts about 4 or 5 hours, and I gets "fully charged" (light turns green) after an hour on the fast charger. Now, this kindle and its battery are about 7 years old, and the battery clearly is old and worn out. I did this for 3 days, and on day 4, the empty battery page disappeared and Kindle started! I couldn't believe it, seems like these small loads reborn my kindle. The light didn't turn on immediately after I plugged it in, it took like a minute to do so. Each time I did that, the light stayed on longer. I when the charging light turned off, I unplugged it, hold the power slide for some time, and plugged it again. I used a fast charger (5V, 2A), and the orange light turned on. I tried holding the switch in the on position for 15 seconds several times but had no luck, it wasn't charging at all. I didn't use my Kindle 3 for over a year and it didn't seem to charge when I plugged it in for several hours. They know it's an issue, go spend 8 hours on the phone with their 3rd world CS and see.Īmazon has become an untrustworthy company that offers no true Customer Support, steals from their own Sellers, creates FAKE review of products (see ANY of their own brand reviews-all 5 Stars!), sells counterfeit products then feigns helplessness, rips-off their customers by selling Kindles with a dozen known problems, up to it breaking, they won't help you, but suggest you spend your $$$ to BUY ANOTHER AMAZON KINDLE. There should be a Class Action brought against Amazon for these garbage hockey pucks they charge $200 for. Say buy yet another Kindle! Escalation of commitment. Wiped my entire Kindle, not just stupid button pressing, wiped, deleted the sections on the OS, brand new.Īmazon gonna help with this? It is a KNOWN ISSUE. ![]() Probably Amazon employees on these Boards. Leaving them to break off and you to buy a sodering gun and taking a class how to use one to fix it! Not only do they Not charge correctly internally, added an Extra cheap charger slot this time. HD Fire 8 in 7th Generation? Overpriced coasters! PaperWhite, never a problem, still can use. These should be recalled, Amazon no longer selling new generations while they figure out how to get a charging port to work correctly. Next step is to find a replacement since one of the 5 pins is snapped and there are only 4 pins visible. I've isolated the broken micro USB connector. Not sure if that would happen but in my head that is how the movie plays out. I'm always scared that I will puncture the battery and it will explode in my face based on the warning labels. Never a fan of prying off a lithium battery that is glued. Obviously, you will need the iFixit standard tool kit to get down to the broken micro USB connector. Little hiccups here and there but very intuitive. Hopefully, it won't be a problem when I reassemble.Īfter I got the Kindle open, everything was moderately easy. At the end of the day, it wasn't the end of the world but I did break two clips. My first reaction was, " What kind of crappy tools are these that break?!" but then I realized that if they hadn't broken, I would be holding a cracked Kindle (to quote/paraphrase Norm McDonald, " Merry Christmas kids, hope you like crap"). I felt like a loser and wished that I had taken a DeVry class based on the million commercials I saw in the 80s and 90s. I had to use a metal tool briefly because I quickly broke both my smaller plastic tools in quick succession. The hardest part (for me) was sadly getting the case open. The mystery was solved and now we can fix it. ![]() Once I figured this out, I text messaged my oldest niece and asked if any of them dropped the Kindle and she said her youngest brother got scared once and threw the Kindle on the ground. At first, suspected it could possibly be a bad battery but something in my gut told me it was the micro USB adaptor and found this guide. Knew it wasn't the charger since Amazon sent them a new one. ![]() My nephew and nieces begged me to fix their non-charging Kindle Fire.
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