I recently received a replacement charging board and have noticed some ongoing oddities in power behavior. I’m interested if these are expected or common, in case it is related to my previous charging board issue. *note: these issues happened on my old charging board before it broke and my new charging board*
Battery drain while off - my Pocket loses a surprising amount of battery while off - about 30% in 4 hours.
Power Down does not actually turn the device off - the backlight and keyboard remain on until I forcibly power the device down through the small display on the keyboard.
Do others have these issues? Should I replace my batteries?
That bug has been fixed with more recent versions of the sysctl firmware. Could you please make sure that both sysctl and keyboard are at the latest released firmware?
In addition it could be that the reform2-lpc driver fitting your kernel version is not loaded/installed (apt install reform2-lpc-dkms).
About the drain: 30% in 4 hours off seems excessive. Normally it drains maybe 10% in a day. It sounds like the gauge did not fully calibrate itself yet, our the cells are dysbalanced (different voltages) so it thinks that the capacity is lower than it should be. I would ask you to try to fully drain the device while it’s running and fully charge it again, a few times. Does it get better then?