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statethatiamin · 01-17-2011, 09:33 AM

Hi all,

This is my first post/thread w/e.
I have a ton of books on my Kindle and I was having major trouble with the indexing/re-indexing of all my books causing dramatic battery loss and lock-ups. Personally, I think maybe the Kindle deliberately indexes books from sources other than the kindle bookstore improperly as a disincentive for people to use those sources.

Anyway, I found a way to disable the indexing all together! I'm really happy with it and my Kindle doesn't lock-up so often. It also dramatically increases my battery life.

The indexing is controlled by a flag in the file /opt/amazon/ebook/bin/start.sh on line 176:
-DENABLE_SEARCH_INDEXING_THREAD=true \

I hope some of you guys will find it useful.

Cheers!

01-17-2011, 09:33 AM	#1
statethatiamin Avid Reader Posts: 27 Karma: 26644 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Bronx, NY Device: Kindle 3	Disable indexing (search) = longer battery life! Hi all, This is my first post/thread w/e. I have a ton of books on my Kindle and I was having major trouble with the indexing/re-indexing of all my books causing dramatic battery loss and lock-ups. Personally, I think maybe the Kindle deliberately indexes books from sources other than the kindle bookstore improperly as a disincentive for people to use those sources. Anyway, I found a way to disable the indexing all together! I'm really happy with it and my Kindle doesn't lock-up so often. It also dramatically increases my battery life. The indexing is controlled by a flag in the file /opt/amazon/ebook/bin/start.sh on line 176: -DENABLE_SEARCH_INDEXING_THREAD=true \ I hope some of you guys will find it useful. Cheers!