12-20-2013, 09:27 AM | #2146 |
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I think there is a lost 11th commandmant that is paraphrased "Though shalt use an e-reader exactly as the builder of it intended or thou shalt be smote by firmware issues"
It has been a while since I went to Church so I am not certain if said commandmant had been discovered |
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12-20-2013, 07:26 PM | #2148 |
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Hi so whats the deal with having Wifi disabled? I am thinking of purchasing a PW2 and would naturally use the device with wifi disabled.
If you're curious why, I dont see wifi providing any benefit to my reading experience and just another drain on the battery. |
12-21-2013, 04:12 AM | #2149 |
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One benefit for me is direct access to Wikipedia. Also if have not noticed any drain that lead me to not have it charged when I needed to read.
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12-21-2013, 04:45 AM | #2150 |
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Leaving WiFi permanently switched on approximately halves the battery life of the PW. This may not be of practical concern, of course. It's still a decent battery life.
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12-21-2013, 06:27 AM | #2151 | |
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I am also of the opinion that a device that is not connected to the net always is kind of broken. |
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12-21-2013, 09:07 AM | #2153 |
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Amazon is making a lot of poor decisions lately for their Kindles. First it becomes super-painful to add custom fonts and now this cloud collection problem. The latter will probably be altered with an update, but it should never have happened. What were they thinking? Unless they are trying to enforce one account per device. And the need not to show cloud-archived collections is a no-brainer. Very poor.
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An e-reader does not *require* an internet connection to perform its main functionality: holding, organizing and presenting ebooks. All other stuff such as Cloud Collections / WhisperSync, Social Media, buying books directly from a store, looking up stuff on Wikipedia and so on, should be optional. I am of the opinion that all of these functions should be completely disabled if there is no internet connection, instead of having them enabled and constantly nag you to connect the device to the internet. If there is no internet, the reader should not attempt to organize books in Cloud Collections. It should organize them locally, and as soon as there is a connection, it should update the Cloud Collection. (I.e.: same way as DropBox works.) And it should ONLY update Cloud Collections if an option to do that is set, because I can imagine that people don't want to use Cloud Collections, but do want to use the online store. Last edited by Katsunami; 12-21-2013 at 10:25 AM. |
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Now that I have no more PW2, the smart hackers have found a way to go back to the original firmware, so there is a solution for the rest of you, if you want to go that route. I certainly would, if I hadn't decided to be done with Kindles. |
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Has this been changed in the KPW2, or even in the last versions of the KPW1? Last edited by Katsunami; 12-21-2013 at 10:50 AM. |
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12-21-2013, 11:27 AM | #2159 | |
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Edit: now that I'm thinking about it, the one thing that *could* have happened is that the older firmwares I flashed, had their version number set to a number higher than the latest official one, and higher than any previous "hacked" versions, so the Kindle would always think it was updating. I did download the firmware versions I used through posts on MR, not from the Kindle site. At the time I don't use any hacks anymore, and just run the Kindle completely stock. Last edited by Katsunami; 12-21-2013 at 11:30 AM. |
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