Nine secs. for K2 to wake up

dwallbaum · 11-16-2009, 04:24 PM

Gentlefolk;

My K2 has started taking nine seconds to wake up from sleep. Previously it took about four seconds.

I have reset the K2 twice, but there is no difference in wakeup time.

Wireless is turned off.

Ideas what may be causing this? I have not noticed any corruption of content.

I have about 80 books on the K2, but no where near making any kind of dent in my available memory.

Thanks!

Don

kindlekitten · 11-17-2009, 03:18 PM

that is a puzzler! my original K1 was doing something similar a few weeks ago and taking an incredibly long time time to turn pages as well. just as I had pretty much reached fed up stage (maybe 3 days?) and was ready to call tech support, it all got back to normal *shrug* I hadn't done anything other delete a few anthologies... and even that was not an immediate sort of response

tlrowley · 11-17-2009, 04:01 PM

Is it waking up to the home screen or to a book? Is it a Topaz book? I know Topaz files are slower to load.

dwallbaum · 11-18-2009, 11:42 AM

I am letting the K2 go to sleep in the middle of an Amazon-boughtened copy of "Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina" by Bernard Fall.

A generally nicely prepared book with just a few typographical hiccups - mostly odd spacing. But the French and Vietnamese lettering comes across cleanly, and the footnotes are well-executed. Not a particularly long book either.

There are a series of photos and maps in the book, maybe its just taking time to process the images??

No crashes, just taking a long time to wake up.

Don

tlrowley · 11-18-2009, 12:02 PM

Yeah, on a quick check that's a Topaz book. There's nothing wrong with your Kindle, when you move on to another book (mobi/azw) it'll be back to it's normal speed. There aren't many Topaz books, but certainly publishers seem to use them.

Personally, I give Topaz books a second (or third) thought before I actually buy them, but usually, if a book is in Topaz format, it's not available anywhere else, so if I want to read it, I'm stuck.

HTH,
Tracey

ETA - you may want to go to the home page before letting your K2 go to sleep - Topaz books have been known to lose their place (although I think that was on power-off, not sleep) I wouldn't want to take the chance.

Mike L · 11-18-2009, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tlrowley

Yeah, on a quick check that's a Topaz book.

Tracey, excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is a "Topaz book" in this context?

I can't see any reference to Topaz on the Street Without Joy page on Amazon.

Strether · 11-18-2009, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike L

I can't see any reference to Topaz on the Street Without Joy page on Amazon.

Mike,

Amazon won't tell you that something is in a Topaz format, but if you're looking at the book's page on the Amazon site, and it only tells you how many pages the book has and not the size of the download, you should be suspicious that it might be a Topaz book. The K-2 handles these better than the K-1 did, but the formatting of the books can be terrible, and books formatted in Topaz are usually about 10x the size of an ordinary formatted book.

See https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/AZW1#Topaz
for more information.

To identify whether your book is indeed formatted in one of the Topaz format, plug your Kindle into the computer, open up the documents folder and look.

Jim

Mike L · 11-19-2009, 07:44 AM

Thanks for your reply, Jim. I see what you mean about showing just the page count, not the file size.

So, are you saying that you can recognise a Topaz book that is already on your Kindle by looking for a file with an extension TPZ or AZW1?

Strether · 11-19-2009, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike L

So, are you saying that you can recognise a Topaz book that is already on your Kindle by looking for a file with an extension TPZ or AZW1?

Absolutely. Just connect the Kindle to your computer and look in the documents file. Be aware, though, that when you load a book into the documents file, it creates two files, one of which keeps track of things like your bookmarks. I forget what the extension is on these files, but the size of them will tip you off as to which is which.

Jim

Mike L · 11-20-2009, 09:14 AM

Thanks for that, Jim. I don't appear to have any Topaz books right now, but I'll keep it in mind.

I did once have exactly the same problem as in the original question in this thread. The culprit turned out to be a magazine (PC Magazine if I remember right). Fortunately, it had no lasting value, so I just deleted it and everything was fine.

11-16-2009, 04:24 PM	#1
dwallbaum Zealot Posts: 100 Karma: 77 Join Date: May 2009 Device: Kindle2	Nine secs. for K2 to wake up Gentlefolk; My K2 has started taking nine seconds to wake up from sleep. Previously it took about four seconds. I have reset the K2 twice, but there is no difference in wakeup time. Wireless is turned off. Ideas what may be causing this? I have not noticed any corruption of content. I have about 80 books on the K2, but no where near making any kind of dent in my available memory. Thanks! Don

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tlrowley Quilt Geek Posts: 472 Karma: 91775 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Lancaster, PA Device: Kindle	Is it waking up to the home screen or to a book? Is it a Topaz book? I know Topaz files are slower to load.

11-18-2009, 11:42 AM	#4
dwallbaum Zealot Posts: 100 Karma: 77 Join Date: May 2009 Device: Kindle2	I am letting the K2 go to sleep in the middle of an Amazon-boughtened copy of "Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina" by Bernard Fall. A generally nicely prepared book with just a few typographical hiccups - mostly odd spacing. But the French and Vietnamese lettering comes across cleanly, and the footnotes are well-executed. Not a particularly long book either. There are a series of photos and maps in the book, maybe its just taking time to process the images?? No crashes, just taking a long time to wake up. Don

11-18-2009, 12:02 PM	#5
tlrowley Quilt Geek Posts: 472 Karma: 91775 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Lancaster, PA Device: Kindle	Yeah, on a quick check that's a Topaz book. There's nothing wrong with your Kindle, when you move on to another book (mobi/azw) it'll be back to it's normal speed. There aren't many Topaz books, but certainly publishers seem to use them. Personally, I give Topaz books a second (or third) thought before I actually buy them, but usually, if a book is in Topaz format, it's not available anywhere else, so if I want to read it, I'm stuck. HTH, Tracey ETA - you may want to go to the home page before letting your K2 go to sleep - Topaz books have been known to lose their place (although I think that was on power-off, not sleep) I wouldn't want to take the chance.

11-19-2009, 07:44 AM	#8
Mike L Wizard Posts: 1,479 Karma: 3846231 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Device: Kindle 3, Samsung Galaxy	Thanks for your reply, Jim. I see what you mean about showing just the page count, not the file size. So, are you saying that you can recognise a Topaz book that is already on your Kindle by looking for a file with an extension TPZ or AZW1?

11-20-2009, 09:14 AM	#10
Mike L Wizard Posts: 1,479 Karma: 3846231 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Device: Kindle 3, Samsung Galaxy	Thanks for that, Jim. I don't appear to have any Topaz books right now, but I'll keep it in mind. I did once have exactly the same problem as in the original question in this thread. The culprit turned out to be a magazine (PC Magazine if I remember right). Fortunately, it had no lasting value, so I just deleted it and everything was fine.