06-30-2011, 06:37 AM | #1 |
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Yet another infinitely rebooting Kindle
Hi guys,
I got my Kindle 3.2.1 last Friday. Since then I've uploaded some 30-something e-books on it. Non of them by amazon, and most were converted from PDF using Caliber. I've also jail-braked it using Yifan Lu's latest. Since yesterday it keep rebooting every 2-5 minutes or so. At first I blamed the indexing service (As a friend of mine was upload a 90 Mb .pdf file to my kindle before it started) and turned it off by setting -DENABLE_SEARCH_INDEXING_THREAD to false on /opt/amazon/ebook/bin/start.sh. It seem to help for a minute and then I went to sleep. When I tried using the Kindle again today, I aws able to read 2 pages, then it started rebooting again - And it's rebooting ever since (every 2-5 minutes), even without any user interaction. At some other point I figured it might be the browser daemon, and also killed /usr/bin/browserd to no avail. I tried looking at /var/logs/messages, and I always get some "Heap space is very low" messages before it reboots. but I haven't figured out yet what's hogging the heap memory. I can see by running ps that the process consuming the most memory is /usr/java/bin/cvm (some %20). [I can't seem to run top by the way, anybody knows way?] Any hints or suggestions? |
06-30-2011, 02:49 PM | #2 |
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Resetting to factory defaults should fix it, I think. But I'm not sure of the effects it would have on the hacks.
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07-01-2011, 02:35 AM | #4 |
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Thanks for the replies.
As it was too painful to watch the little thing rebooting like crazy I just rest it to factory settings (and restored the original start.sh) right after I wrote this post. What I was more interested in are ways to try and analyze (or some guess on) what was causing it. (For the next time my kindle is in pain ) @Yufan: after I reverted start.sh I noticed the private commands ~startIndexing and ~stopIndexing. My guess is you're the one who added them (I only used your hack + usbNetwork) as I remember reading they don't exist on the original firmware. (Or are they on 3.2.1?) If it was really you who added them, may I ask what do you use to start and stop the indexing process? |
07-01-2011, 08:25 AM | #5 |
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