10-29-2009, 04:06 AM | #1 |
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New kindle: ghosting
I received my Kindle yesterday. I've fully charged it using the provided cord with a US-Europe adaptor. I took me about 3 hours. I used the Kindle for reading and tried it out a bit, putting books on it, getting to know the menus and the available options... At night I turned it off and notice remains of the main menu, where you choose your books... I read about doing "alt+g", but it's still there... I restarted the device twice... I can't see while I'm reading, just in some pictures, like the welcome screen when you power on your device - I see parts of text in the back.
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10-29-2009, 09:37 AM | #2 |
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If alt+g isn't clearing your screen, contact Amazon CS - you may have a defective screen.
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10-29-2009, 11:10 AM | #3 |
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10-30-2009, 07:15 AM | #4 |
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I now get this ghosting when the Kindle is turned off.
I see a line above a couple more below... It's from de main Menu. I contacted Customer Service and they said that it's normal, inherent to e-ink, but it if got worse to contact them again... Anyone? Is it normal to have this "ghosts" with the Kindle turned off? Last edited by Adamastorx; 10-30-2009 at 10:42 AM. Reason: I'm uploading a foto |
10-30-2009, 10:49 AM | #5 |
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I've seen it - esp. after having a screen saver with a lot of dark areas in it on the screen - before turning the kindle off. Turning it back on & doing alt-g clears it up for me.
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I'm worried just because I had a Hanlin V3 for 8 days just for testing and I never saw these faded lines. Last edited by Adamastorx; 10-30-2009 at 11:11 AM. |
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10-30-2009, 12:42 PM | #7 |
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That looks perfectly normal to me. Any eInk screen shows a certain level of ghosting.
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The Customer Service told it was normal, but on my second mail with the photo they told me to call them. Anyway, I think I'll give it a rest, because the Kindle is performing fine. |
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10-31-2009, 03:35 PM | #9 |
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I don't think turning off your Kindle is particularly normal. The whole point of e-ink is it doesn't waste energy to leave it on, just like you don't turn off regular books. Only leaving on wireless might waste some energy. So you shouldn't notice the ghosting!
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What do you mean? That there is no need in turning off the Kinder? Maybe there isn't. Lately I keep it on with the sreen saver activated. |
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11-02-2009, 08:39 PM | #12 |
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Yes, I never turn my Kindle off unless it has some kind of glitch and i need to do the Kindle version of rebooting, which is the magic answer to the majority off computer problems on any computer, sort of starting life over again (I wish I could do that with myself...without dying, of course.)
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11-02-2009, 09:09 PM | #13 |
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That is all you really need to do. When you put it to sleep all it does it put on that screen saver picture and keeps the buttons from doing anything
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11-18-2009, 11:47 AM | #14 |
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There was a tech blog I read a while back in which a Kindle was deconstructed to see what was inside.
Even when the entire reader was diassembled and the power removed from the system, the screen was still displaying its content. I don't know how long the screen remained "active" bukt it was an impressive indication of how little power eInk passively draws. |
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