Has anyone else had issues with the Amazon provided power supply?
I plug mine in to charge every night and I usually don't have issues with it. But then again, I usually have around 20-30% state of charge left.
However, twice in the last week, I have plugged in my KF with the battery below 10% and it doesn't charge at all - no LED light, Battery Monitor Widget still indicates that it is discharging. Other USB chargers that I have seem to work just fine even when it's in this state, but since they are much smaller (500mA) they don't charge as quickly either.
I sent them an email, but they replied saying that they want to actually talk to try some troubleshooting steps. I guess I'll write more after I call them.
Yes, I had a charging problem also. What I would do is nonlinear chat with Amazon and tell them your problem. I did this and they gave me a new one free.
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I've looked for this for a few days and can't find the answer I'm looking for so I figured it'd be alright to ask this:
Is the AC charging issue being worked out or can it be fixed? The Kindle still does charge, but I guess i'd just have more peace of mind if the battery charging indicator worked. So far, Hash has done a great job though
I'm assuming you're talking about 3.0 kernel based roms? The only problem I've ever had with charging is the battery indicator sometimes doesn't work. It charges fine but your stats may not reflect the fact until after a reboot. But since the #8 version came out I haven't noticed any problems other than battery animation.
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Mine charges too I just would love to see the battery indicator working, but it isn't that big of a deal. My kindle seems to charge really slow though from a wall AC, but it charges really fast on a car charger so I'm not sure what's up.
Nwright9494 said:
Mine charges too I just would love to see the battery indicator working, but it isn't that big of a deal. My kindle seems to charge really slow though from a wall AC, but it charges really fast on a car charger so I'm not sure what's up.
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I read in the dev thread that since the kernel had issues managing the extra power from the wall, it charged slowly but still charged. I'm still on #7 and use AC overnight with no problems.
DrewHulva said:
I read in the dev thread that since the kernel had issues managing the extra power from the wall, it charged slowly but still charged. I'm still on #7 and use AC overnight with no problems.
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Thats more of my issue is the slow charging. Which ROM do you use? I use Gederom right now. Maybe i'll try what you're using.
Nwright9494 said:
Thats more of my issue is the slow charging. Which ROM do you use? I use Gederom right now. Maybe i'll try what you're using.
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I'm using Reloaded. BiteBlaze seems pretty committed to it, and I respect that.
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I'm using Reloaded. BiteBlaze seems pretty committed to it, and I respect that.
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How is your battery life with reloaded? My only big gripe with gederom is the battery goes down very fast, I'm not sure if thats this ROM's issue or ICS Roms in general.
I just flashed AOKP Milestone 5 and it seems to charge much faster and it holds on to battery better. I love Gederom and once it charges faster I will probably move back to it.
I was on reloaded rom for a week until aokp milestone5 came out. Very similar in terms of stability, and aokp seems a bit better for battery management (LED works when charging too).
They both seem to have the problem of needing to do a hard shutdown rather than through the OS. Other than that, aokp is serving me well for daily use.
I'm using EnergyROM 4-29-2012 and Kernel 3.0 #8 and the charging light works fine. In sleep mode, when plugged into AC, the power button blinks orange about once a minute, and blinks green when fully charged. Charging time is normal (90 minutes from 65% to full charge), and power usage is normal when on battery. The Kindle Fire will not charge from USB.
I got my KF Yesterday, the first thing I did was root it and install Trojan38's CM9 ROM. Everything is working great, but I notice that charging is painfully slow. I plugged it in last night around 2ish, it had 43% Battery remaining. Woke up around 10 (About 8 hours of charging) and checked the battery, it was only at 92%. I'm using the wall charger that came with the Kindle, not USB.
Is there something wrong with my Kindle, or is this old news?
I think it might be a known issue. Mine takes time to recharge too.
There are some roms like AOKP that enable fastcharge which charges the kindle faster than it usually does. I'm not sure if your rom will have it so maybe look around in the settings or something
goshjosh said:
I think it might be a known issue. Mine takes time to recharge too.
There are some roms like AOKP that enable fastcharge which charges the kindle faster than it usually does. I'm not sure if your rom will have it so maybe look around in the settings or something
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Thanks! But doesn't fast charge just mean it charges faster on USB?
Also, is it a ROM issue or a KF issue? (As in, would this still happen on stock KF?)
I installed the gede rom a few weeks ago. I am having issues with charging my fire. Recently, I charged it all night, unplugged it, then didn't use my fire for a couple days. The kindle fire lost all of its charge while not being used. Then, while charging it back up, it would go from "charging" to "discharging", flipping back and forth, even though it was plugged in (this was being viewed through the settings).
Is this a common problem? Is there a fix? Would there be another rom that is more stable?
I have also found that the Fire loses charge very easily while on standby on all of the ROMS I've used it on.
I would shut down the Fire completely when storing it away.
Also, the discharging, charging bug is harmless as far as I know, it charges itself regardless of the charging, discharging status.
Running Rooted Android 4.4.2 stock kernel and i seem to be having a issue where it wont even charge when charge it through the wall. Instead it slowly decreases. Its not the battery since I've tried it on another device and it worked fine. Its also not my wall plug since i can charge my tablet just fine. Its also not the device because I've connected it to my PS4 and it charged perfectly fine. I've taken out the battery and turned it on and now it seems to be somewhat stable. When i checked the battery manager it said that Android System is using 30% of the battery life. I believe that the A.S. is supposed to be 20%? Or somewhere around that area. Someone please help asap