The second cheapest options would be Paperwhite and Touch (that's about as old as the Keyboard so I guess that's not worth it) which both range from 50€ to 60€. Yeah, that device is 12 years old and that is my main concern, are the newer models so much better that I should not even think of buying this one? I looked some reviews of it and it seemed okay-ish, but I wish to hear your opinion too. I found the Kindle Keyboard (Kindle 3rd generation) for 10€ (+ 10€ delivery = 20€ total). The budget is under 50 euros, so basically the only option I have is a used one. ![]() I'm not willing to spend that much though. I don’t recommend it for the novice or the faint of heart.I'm giving up on reading ebooks with my phone and getting an ebook reader. So this is a last ditch, “let the user beware” way of getting a 3G Kindle Keyboard “unstuck”. Everything was still there, and Solitaire continued from where it had frozen up for my wife.Īpparently the battery disconnect for 1 minute is the same as a soft reset or reboot. After the progress bar got to 100%, the Kindle’s table of contents appeared. The power slider switch had no effect on this reboot and the progress bar. Immediately the startup screen appeared (the one with the tree), along with a progress bar. It had been disconnected for more than a minute. I flipped the Kindle back over, put the grommets back on the plastic receptacles for the battery screws and fastened the battery back in place. (This must be a non-power-consuming nonvolatile memory display.) The same “frozen screen” was displaying without the battery inserted. Two little top-hat shaped grommets fell off of the battery. I then took out the two screws and removed the Li-Ion battery. Once opened, I flipped the Kindle over and a stray piece of plastic locking tab fell out. A dull butter knife barely inserted to prevent internal shorting was then gently twisted progressively to coax the plastic locking tabs to release along the other 3 sides of the Kindle’s rear cover. All failed.įiguring I could do no further harm, I pried the plastic rear panel off beginning a the power switch and charger receptacle area at the bottom. Today it froze and I tried your solution along with several others from Amazon’s Support page and various Internet power switch and pushbutton combinations. I have a 3G Kindle Keyboard from 2010 that my wife loves. Kudos to whomever it was that documented this originally & I apologize for not cross-posting to you. ![]() I’d point to the place where I found this information but I can’t for the life of me find it again. Warning: There’s no turning back from this once you type the entire word in and there’s no “Are you sure?” To do a hard reset, type the word “reset” in the above screen after following step 1. ![]() It will also lose your bookmarks & settings. This procedure will wipe out all your books and require you to re-download them to your Kindle which, while not disastrous, will take time. I’m told that if this doesn’t work, you have to do a hard reset of the device, which is the equivalent of wiping & resetting your Kindle.This brought my unit back to a stable state, as if I’d done a reboot or a soft reset of the device. Hold the power switch to the right for 20 seconds.The Software Update that I’m referring to provided New Reading Font, Parental Controls, Kindle Format 8, Comic Book/Children’s Picture Book Support, Enhanced Table/Image Viewing, Whispersync for Voice support,Īnyway, to get it out of this frozen state, I had to do the following: I have a suspicion this had something to do with the pending remote Software Update that Amazon pushed (which after this ordeal occurred without me knowing) but I can’t be certain. The GREEN/YELLOW charging light wouldn’t turn off. 10 minutes later it’d downloaded all the books that I’d had queued up for delivery and away we go. Completely drained of battery, I plugged it into my MicroUSB charging clock radio (it has a slot at the top with cables for charging USB peripherals) and of course it came up. Just yesterday, I started looking for it and lo-and-behold, it was behind my nightstand here it’d fallen after having been used for bedtime reading for quite a while. I really didn’t know where it was… it’d been THAT long since I used it. I’ve spent most of my reading time on my Microsoft Surface or my HTC Windows Phone 8X, both of which have the Kindle app on them so using the Kindle 3G really isn’t necessary for 90% of what I need to do. Y’know – the one with the keyboard? Been using it for a few years now & it’s treated me well, despite reading it in the hot blazing sun of Las Vegas… bringing it with me into the pool (in a waterproof Kindle holder, mind you)… and travelling all around the globe with it.
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