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The company has yet to comment, but it could face a customer backlash should the latest update be found to be eating precious battery life. xda-developers Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7' & 8.9' Kindle Fire HDX 7' & 8.9' General Amazon Communication Services battery drain by hth2813 XDA Developers was founded by developers, for developers. To solve the issue, you need to open the App Store and. A quick way to disable both is to turn on Aeroplane Mode (Airplane Mode in. In this case, your app might be malfunctioning, causing the iPhone battery draining after update iOS 14. The Amazon support forums have not had a flurry of complaints about Kindle affecting battery life this time around, but previous updates have been criticized on that count. More importantly, disabling WiFi when it’s not in use can enhance battery life by an extra 30-60 minutes per charge. If you have noticed a sudden decrease in battery life on your iPhone or iPad, check your battery usage to see whether Kindle has started using far more battery than before. According to the write-up, the update made “performance and stability improvements,” but it appears that better performance comes at the expense of decreased battery life.Īlthough there is no information online which suggests that the issue is widespread, Kendrick is fairly certain that the updated Kindle app is responsible for the onset of his battery issues. Kendrick investigated the version history of the Kindle app and found that a minor update, version 4.8.1, was introduced on April 15. Updated Amazon Kindle app now uses more battery? The strange thing about the Amazon Kindle app is that it seems to use a lot of charge even when the user is not actively reading a book. We shall see.Even games such as Halo: Spartan Strike on the iPad Air 2 use less battery than the Kindle app, and games are known to be heavy users of battery due to the intense use of the screen. My theory is that the generic Alexa somehow conflicted with the Fire-specific version, wasn't obeying the standard Fire setting to deactivate it, and was locked in some sort of loop. So far I don't have Alexa showing in my battery monitor using 60%+ of the battery on either of the two devices. I also turned off automatic updates in the Play Store to avoid it overwriting the Amazon version of Alexa with the generic version I'll just need to remember to check for YouTube Kids updates myself now and again! I used the "uninstall" button on the Play Store version of Alexa to remove all the updates, which has restored the version to the one installed by Amazon. When I looked in the Play Store app I saw that it had auto-updated the installed Alexa version to 2.2.xxx, with a warning that it wasn't optimised for my device. I had installed the Google Play Store on my kids' Fire 8HDs, along with Google Play services, so they have access to YouTube Kids.
Hopefully those in management get the message from their users.
It's probably about a program manager or marketing manager telling the team that everyone wants this turned on all the time. For what it's worth, this almost certainly isn't about the development team.
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I've written code and currently manage multiple development teams.
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My background is in software engineering. He assured me my feedback would be shared with the development team. I shared with the support person just how ridiculous I thought this was. Fortunately, you can leave just about everything enabled so it doesn't really interfere with everything else you want to do on your tablet, but because there are laws regarding recording children, this keeps the app from running. No joy.Īfter chatting with Amazon today, it seems the "official" fix is to enable parental controls and block Alexa (what I would at best call a "workaround" but more like a "hack"). I tried turning off Alexa in all the ways suggested (turn off notifications, clear cache, clear data, force stop every few hours, etc.). I went from days of battery life to losing the battery overnight.
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(I use GSam Battery Monitor Pro on my Fire HD 10 / 7th generation). I can confirm that the battery issue started with an update in November, and I can confirm Alexa is the culprit. Same problems here, but a possible fix workaround hack.