Comments on: Critical Battery on Kindle 2: Hard Reset

By: eddy

eddy — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:08:05 +0000

Thanks, man! that help me out of the hole

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:45:57 +0000

To get it to work I had to plug in while I did the hold for 30 wait 20. Then when it flashed I unplugged and replugged it. Charged up fine then.

By: Critical Battery on my Kindle 2 « the little reader

Critical Battery on my Kindle 2 « the little reader — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:14:33 +0000

[...] i’ll try google. and found a post about how to hard reset my kindle, only it didn’t work. i woudn’t get the flashing screen that is [...]

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:58:23 +0000

All great advice. Nothing worked for me EXCEPT this so I thought I would pass it on. Plug your kindle into powered USB on computer. If the orange light does not come on when it is supposed to be charging, then hold the power switch to the right for a few seconds while it is plugged in. This forced the kindle to somehow reboot. It is working fine now. Hope this helps someone who is having similar issues.

By: redheadcheesehead

redheadcheesehead — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:10:32 +0000

Thank you so much. I was convinced my Kindle2 was toast. I had actually been getting that “critical battery” message for a few weeks, and been able to charge just enough to make the Kindle usable for a day, then the next time I tried to turn it on, same message, and I would have to charge again. Tonight, though, I took it off the charger to find the dreaded screen of doom, and thought I had lost my Kindle for good. Thank you for saving it.

Robert Davies, you also have a good point – I had inadvertently switched the USB to wall-plate plugs between my Kindle and my iPhone, and although they were seemingly the same, the Kindle was not happy with the switch at all. It seems that the Kindle charger is what the Kindle needs.

By: Robert Davies

Robert Davies — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:59:44 +0000

I have had the same problem with the empty battery error message and nothing would work until I found my misplaced Amazon charger.

Apparently, the Amazon charger is a better match for the Kindle, as it charged the battery enough to reboot the Kindle automatically after about ten minutes. I had been using Apple iPod and generic chargers successfully for nearly a year, but when the battery error message appeared, only the Amazon charger worked.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:10:38 +0000

Thanks for the tip!! Screen flashed and in midst of a charge.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:06:05 +0000

Thanks worked great for my new DX when I let the battery go flat! I used the wall to charge it; though USB sounds like a viable option but I think it charges slower.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:48:51 +0000

YAY! Worked for me on the second try. THANK YOU!

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:45:11 +0000

Nothing worked for me. Tried the 30sec/20sec-no help- Plug it in for hours in wall socket.
Until I saw the message that to use the usb port on computer and now the charge light came on.
I think this is going to work. Could it be that the charge adapter is faulty under certain conditions ??