10 Tips to Fix Kindle Battery Draining Fast

Quick Tips

• Enable the Power Saver mode in Settings to save battery on your Kindle.
• Ensure you use original, or certified accessories to charge your Kindle.
• You can enable airplane mode, disable page refresh, or put your Kindle to sleep when you’re not using it to save battery.

1. Use Airplane Mode

When all you want to do is read your current book, you won’t need an internet connection to sync and update your library. After all, if you are reading a book it means that it has been saved onto your local storage.

So, it makes sense to enable the Airplane mode on your Kindle during those times. Tap on the downwards arrow icon, and tap on the Airplane Mode icon to enable it.

Also Read: How to fix Kindle not connecting to Wi-Fi network.

2. Read in Daylight at the Lowest Brightness

Kindle uses the E-Ink technology so that you can use your Kindle in broad daylight on minimum brightness, unlike traditional screens.

Tap on the downward-facing arrow icon to open the control panel. Use the brightness slider to lower the brightness of your screen.

3. Turn Off Page Refresh

The page refresh option refreshes the display of your Kindle every time you open a new page. Disabling this feature will help you save battery on your Kindle.

Tap on the downward-facing arrow icon to open the control panel and go to All Settings. Tap on Reading Options, and turn off Page Refresh.

4. Enable Power Saver

Your Kindle has a built-in power saver mode that you can use to conserve battery.

Note: A few older devices miss out on the power saver feature despite running on the latest software, like our Kindle Paperwhite 7th Generation. Unfortunately, there isn’t any official information from Amazon that talks about the lack of this feature on some versions of Kindle.

Tap on the downward-facing arrow icon to open the control panel and go to All Settings. Tap on Device Options. Tap on Advanced Options, select the Power Saver option, and tap on Enable.

5. Restart Your Kindle

If you have any buggy configurations or elements running on your Kindle, restarting it may help.

Tap on the downward-facing arrow icon to open the control panel and go to All Settings. Tap on Device Options. Tap on Restart and select Yes to confirm.

6. Update Kindle

Amazon regularly releases software updates for Kindle, and some of these will consist of patches that may improve the battery life.

Tap on the downward-facing arrow icon to open the control panel and go to All Settings. Tap on Device Options, and go to Advanced Options.

Tap on Update Your Kindle. If the option is greyed out, it means that your Kindle is already running on the latest version.

7. Manually Enable Sleep Mode on Your Kindle

Putting your Kindle to sleep activates the screensaver, and ensures that it shuts off the operations that are active while you read a book. Some of them include presenting the text, constantly learning reading speed, refreshing the page, etc. Hence, putting your Kindle to sleep saves some battery life.

All you need to do is press the power button on your Kindle once. It is present on the bottom bezel of your Kindle reader. To turn it on, you need to press the power button again.

8. Add Books While Charging

Whether you are downloading books on your Kindle, or you are sending books from your PC or other sources, make sure you do this while your Kindle is charging. This is by far the most resource-heavy activity that you can perform on your Kindle. So, ensure you don’t constantly drain your battery while doing so.

9. Check for Corrupt Books

The Kindle’s software attempts to index all added books. However, it persistently tries to re-index corrupt books, leading to battery drain. To preserve battery health, you will have to stop this process.

So you need to make sure to check these books that haven’t been indexed, and then get rid of them or try to add them again.

Step 1: Use the search bar to search for unindexed books. Type in a gibberish term like ‘gd9hiagd’. Don’t bother, this is just to activate the search function.

Step 2: Tap on the Text in Books option.

Step 2: If the search doesn’t return any results, this means that everything has been indexed.

Step 3: If the search returns a few results, here’s what you need to do.

• If the books that show up have been added very recently, they are in the process of being indexed, so do not delete them.
• If the books that show up have been added a long time ago and are still being indexed, they are corrupt and you should delete them.

10. Replace Your Kindle’s Battery

Like any electronic gadget, Kindle batteries end up degrading after an extended period of usage. So, it is fair to spend on a battery replacement for your Kindle if it has been a few years since you purchased one. Further, if you are using an older Kindle and none of the above methods seem to work, then perhaps it’s time to take your Kindle to Amazon support to replace the battery.

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