Firmware Update Is there a 3.1 update for kindle

[douwen]

noticed there is a firmware update (3.1) for kindle 3, is there a same update for kindle dx?

[yifanlu]

No, sorry. Kindle 2 & DX aren't fast enough to run 3.0-3.1

[douwen]

Originally Posted by yifanlu

No, sorry. Kindle 2 & DX aren't fast enough to run 3.0-3.1

AFAIK, kindle 3 and kindle DXG all have a Freescale 532 MHz, ARM-11

[yifanlu]

Originally Posted by douwen

AFAIK, kindle 3 and kindle DXG all have a Freescale 532 MHz, ARM-11

It's not fast enough to run at full speed. That's what I mean. I'm sure amazon CAN do it, but so far, they're leaving DX users in the dust.

[douwen]

well , i have the same opinion about Amazon :-(

Originally Posted by yifanlu

... but so far, they're leaving DX users in the dust.

[kranu]

Originally Posted by douwen

AFAIK, kindle 3 and kindle DXG all have a Freescale 532 MHz, ARM-11

Yeah but the DX screen is bigger. It's fine to render 480p video with a 1Ghz single core processor, but for 1080p, you need a lot more. I know that example is pretty extreme, but the concept extends on. Amazon could probably tweak it to run, but that would take a lot of time and energy...

[ZigZagJoe]

Very poor example; the needs of decoding higher resolution video are nothing like displaying a UI. It would require a little more CPU time, but nothing like the roughly 4x or so 480p vs 1080p difference.

However, apparently, DX/K2 have half the ram (128 vs 256), which _would_ affect updating, for the browser at least. I heard someone messed around and ranthe K3 firmware on a K2, but it was very unstable due to the lack of ram. Besides that, there is no reason why they could not run it; same CPU, hardware is basically the same with the exception of the RAM.

They could likey make it work if they didn't keep the kindle "environment" (aka all that java shit) loaded, and just launched the browser - it accounts for a very large percentage of the ram on the device. When browser closes for whatever reason, restart the environment. Presto, the browser will have as much RAM available as it does on the K3 series devices.

[jeromedevine]

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[kranu]

Originally Posted by ZigZagJoe

Very poor example; the needs of decoding higher resolution video are nothing like displaying a UI. It would require a little more CPU time, but nothing like the roughly 4x or so 480p vs 1080p difference.

However, apparently, DX/K2 have half the ram (128 vs 256), which _would_ affect updating, for the browser at least. I heard someone messed around and ranthe K3 firmware on a K2, but it was very unstable due to the lack of ram. Besides that, there is no reason why they could not run it; same CPU, hardware is basically the same with the exception of the RAM.

They could likey make it work if they didn't keep the kindle "environment" (aka all that java shit) loaded, and just launched the browser - it accounts for a very large percentage of the ram on the device. When browser closes for whatever reason, restart the environment. Presto, the browser will have as much RAM available as it does on the K3 series devices.

Like I said.. It was a pretty extreme example. I guess RAM could be a bigger factor, but CPU will also be affected. Even if it's a minor difference, people will complain to Amazon saying "I want the old faster page turning back". Frankly, that's a perfectly logical argument, since the focus of the Kindle is reading.

[bZkindle]

Originally Posted by douwen

noticed there is a firmware update (3.1) for kindle 3, is there a same update for kindle dx?

no and there never will be. ditto for the DXG.
I gave up hope on one quite a while ago.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by douwen

noticed there is a firmware update (3.1) for kindle 3, is there a same update for kindle dx?

The Kindle DX is built on the Kindle 2 hardware platform and runs the v2.x firmware. A new v2 firmware version (2.5.8) was released only a few days ago.

[ZigZagJoe]

Originally Posted by kranu

Like I said.. It was a pretty extreme example. I guess RAM could be a bigger factor, but CPU will also be affected. Even if it's a minor difference, people will complain to Amazon saying "I want the old faster page turning back". Frankly, that's a perfectly logical argument, since the focus of the Kindle is reading.

There's no reason there should be a difference in page turning speed under 2.x vs a hypothetical 3.x DX version. If one assumes that the DX 2 would be based on kindle 3 hardware, it has the same cpu [as k2 based devices], but more ram... which isn't needed for the java environment when not using the browser.