Another option for squeezing more battery life from your Fire tablet is Low Power Mode, found in Settings > Power, but it will dim your display. You can also set it to turn on automatically. If you don’t want to turn it off completely when you aren’t using it, then pull down the notification shade and tap to turn on Airplane mode. You can also go to Settings > Power and toggle on Automatic Smart Suspend.

If you don’t have Google Play Store, then try syncing your books and then press and hold the Power button for 40 seconds or more until it restarts and see if it works normally. If you have a case on your tablet, then try removing it. There’s a slim chance that it’s pressing on the card and causing the issue. Since not everyone has the most recent Fire tablet, here are a few common issues on the older range of tablets. Glitch: E-books disappearing or not workingIn addition to his extensive writing experience, Chris has been interviewed as a technology expert on TV news and radio shows. He gave advice on dark web scans on Miami's NBC 6, discussed Windows XP's demise on WGN-TV's Midday News in Chicago, and shared his CES experiences on WJR-AM's Guy Gordon Show in Detroit. Note that a factory reset won’t solve your hardware issues. You can wipe out all your data but it won’t be able to fix the malfunctioning motherboard, processor, or battery. Reconnect your device to charge; plug in the cable to the power adapter and your device, then plug the adapter into an outlet.

Try a soft reset by p ressing and holding the power button for 40 seconds or until your device restarts.shows that one of the most popular help topics is how to get your Fire Tablet to charge. After making sure that your tablet is not in an environment that’s too hot or too cold, try the following steps to resolve your charging issues. On some occasions, the power outlet that you use for your charger may stop working. The outlet doesn’t function when the fuse goes off or something happens that prevents electricity traveling to the outlet to form a circuit. Your Fire tablet indicator light turns orange while charging. If you’re still having issues then you may have to send your tablet in for service or take it to your trusty local third-party repair shop to repair a fault charge port or battery.

Chris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times---and that's just here at How-To Geek. You could try looking in Settings > Storage > SD Card and toggling some content categories. However, they should be on for the microSD card by default. When you determine the cause of the issue, whether it’s hardware or software, you can hard reset your device by following these steps:

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Get into the habit of turning your tablet off when you aren’t using it. Hold down the power button until the Power off box pops up and then tap OK.