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Kindle Fire tablet 8 Battery draining while plugged in

Mike Glen Ellyn 5 years ago in Browsers Tablets Phones / Amazon Fire • updated by dantheman 4 years ago • 7

I have a new Kindle fire tablet 8 with Action tiles and Fully Kiosk browser running.

I have it mounted on a kitchen cabinet and the cable is running to a power strip in the cupboard. 

The battery drains throughout the day and gives me a battery warning.

Any ideas? Is it the cable? I'm using one that was suggested  with a right angle connection to fit in the frame.

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Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago

Please test using the original power supply and cable provided by Amazon. That way you can determine if there is insufficient supply or a cable problem...


After that, be sure to try a lower brightness level and other minor touches might be enough to keep the charge positive.


I run my Fire HD8 with a "cheap" power supply (I don't know the specs, but it sure doesn't look fancy), and the battery seldom drains. I use Fully with complete dim mode as the screen saver.

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Mike Glen Ellyn 5 years ago

Thanks Terry- I'll try the original connection to start

dantheman 4 years ago

I just got my fire and have a similar problem.  Can u share what settings you used to keep positive charge?  Overnight I went from 76 to 64 with 90 angle cable plugged in but lightening bolt showing charging

Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 4 years ago

For what it's worth... Mine did this for 2-3 weeks and yet for the past several days has been fine (solid 100%).

Possibly shutting it down for a white will recondition the battery? Or remove Tile Animations or such things that may be taking extra power? I can't come to any conclusions.

Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 4 years ago

Oh....I think there was a FireOS system update too. Should be automatic.

Kevin1 4 years ago

Can you test with the original fire micro usb cable?  My Fire8 was fine for over a year then 6? months ago started to drain.  I had to replace my cobbled together cable/flush micro usb.  Quick test with usb meter, Fire8 battery is 100%: 

--On fire home screen 0.2-0.3 Amp

--WallPanel app with ActionTiles settings screen 0.3-0.4 Amp

--With my default ActionTiles panel (40+ tiles, animated icons, animated weather gif, etc) 0.6-0.9 Amp

dantheman 4 years ago

FYI: The 90 degree cable with stock charging 'block' seemed to fix issue. Just not sure how to wall mount with 1.5 inch of charging block + .75 inch of usb sticking out vertically?

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