I’m astonished to report that the vertical-orientation thing worked for me as well.
I’m not sure my situation was quite like everybody else’s though. When I started, the battery *did* show the lightning bolt and gave the impression it was charging, but it never went past 1%. For reasons clear in the details below, I was pretty sure the battery was ruined. But stumbled across this post and figured, what the hey, I’ll give it a try! At first it didn’t seem to make a difference, but at some point suddenly it went past 1% to 2 and now to 5. So I think our Kindle is going to be another success story of this weird and improbable solution.
I was in the middle of researching what replacement Kindle to get. But I was disappointed to see the new Kindle 8” kids’ edition tablets are being panned for being slow, and I don’t relish having to pay again to turn off all the cosmetics ads and stuff like that anyway, so I’m delighted that this Kindle may be a survivor after all.
DETAILS: My situation is that my daughter (who has severe autism) brought the Kindle in the bath with her b/c we somehow missed hiding it away the way we usually do. After my outpouring of relief that she hadn’t been shocked by the battery, I shook all the water I could out of it, and threw it in a bag of rice with a few drying packets over the weekend. I wish it had a user-openable back because I could hear the Kindle struggling— it kept trying to reboot itself over and over and I wished I could just take the battery out to prevent damage, but with the glued on back I figured I risked doing more damage doing this than I’d prevent. Eventually it seemed to run the battery down (probably way down) with this and I didn’t hear more from it. I checked at about 24 hours and saw there were still moisture droplets visible behind the camera lenses even a day later, so I put it in the sun (still in the rice) for a half hour at a time on each side for a while, hoping to heat it enough to evaporate the liquid and let it escape (but not get so hot as to melt the plastic). That was a delicate balance. After 48 hours it did start successfully when plugged in, and I thought at first it was fine, but when an hour of being plugged in didn’t get the battery past 1%, I figured the battery was ruined. I was just in the middle of researching what replacement Kindle to get when I stumbled across this post and gave it a try. I am really surprised to say this but it does seem to be working. It’s possible my battery as just so depleted that it took a long time just to get above 1%, but I don’t think so— the first night I attempted to recharge it I had it plugged in for over an hour and it never went past 1%— but this time, vertically, it only took it a few minutes to break the 1% barrier. So I think it’s the vertical orientation. This breaks every law I thought I understood about electronics, but I’m thankful to whoever figured this out.
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I had the same problem. I assumed it was the connector because the problem was intermittent then became permanent. And since the micro USB connector looked chewed up, I figured it was a no brainer. Well, after replacing the micro USB on the motherboard, that is NOT the problem. My assumption now is that its the battery but my assumptions suck apparently so its likely something else. ;)
par Gil Olive
Is this a common fault as I have 4 children and it’s happened to all of theirs and now has started happening on their replacements? I was blaming them initially for being to rough with the charging point? However it can’t be if all four are the same?
par doyley198409
Did you see the suggestion to charge the device in the verticle orientation? Then it will charge. 100% repro.
par Darryl Gittins
Same issues here! I thought it was bc my 3 year old dropped it from the couch a few times. I tried charging it vertically and it worked! So crazy but so thankful for this post and thread! Thanks y’all!
par Stephanie Nelson
I hope my comment is seen!
I came here because my Amazon Fire 10 kept showing as 1%, while charging. I bought a new cable, but that didn’t help.
I had my fingers crossed, when I charged it, vertically, against the wall. It’s now fully charged at 100%!
Who is the genius that figured this out?!?
THANK YOU!
par Pamela's Scentsations
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