Troubleshooting Kindle 4 NT: no more pictures?

[mmatting]

Hi,

I am trying to follow the procedure I know from my K3 (copy images into a subfolder under the pictures folder, press Alt-Z to update) to show pictures on my K4 no-touch, but it won't work. Could anybody confirm that? (or, better yet, tell me what I'm doing wrong)

Thanks
Matthias

Originally Posted by mmatting

Hi,

I am trying to follow the procedure I know from my K3 (copy images into a subfolder under the pictures folder, press Alt-Z to update) to show pictures on my K4 no-touch, but it won't work. Could anybody confirm that? (or, better yet, tell me what I'm doing wrong)

Thanks
Matthias

For one thing there is no Alt button on the K4. I wonder if a restart would do the trick? You might try that by holding in the Power button for 20 seconds until it restarts.

[mmatting]

Thanks - neither a restart via MENU->Restart worked nor a Restart by pressing the power button for 15 seconds. Seems they have eliminated the image viewer? Also, I wonder where Minesweeper has gone...

[FourOhFour]

Originally Posted by mmatting

Also, I wonder where Minesweeper has gone...

Right here: http://www.amazon.com/Mine-Sweeper/dp/B003P3BCVA

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by mmatting

Hi,

I am trying to follow the procedure I know from my K3 (copy images into a subfolder under the pictures folder, press Alt-Z to update) to show pictures on my K4 no-touch, but it won't work. Could anybody confirm that? (or, better yet, tell me what I'm doing wrong)

Thanks
Matthias

You might try creating a .zip file containing the pictures, then just drop that into the /Documents folder. That's usually what I do with my K3 as it lets you actually delete the image content (instead of just removing it from the item list temporarily). Plus it takes up less space to begin with.

Alternatively, you could create a subfolder of /documents with the image files you want in there, which works on K3. Maybe K4 just doesn't look for /pictures any more.

I really hope they didn't get rid of the image viewer.

[Blossom]

It says it still does pictures. Try putting them in your Documents folder in a sub folder. There is no other folder on the K4 but that folder.

[seaniko7]

Just zip your images and put package into documents folder.

Cheers.

[mmatting]

@FourOhFour: Well, we Europeans don't get Active Content, so Minesweeper and GoMoKu were the only playable games...

Here is a screen capture of the Picture Viewer on my K4. So it does indeed work by placing the zip file in the documents folder.

[mmatting]

@all: zipping works indeed, thanks

[tomsem]

Beautiful, good to know.

Have you explored the Menu options while in the picture viewer, and are they the same as before? Wonder if the keyboard shortcuts still work? Or if bringing up the text options panel gives you the different image viewing options?

Screenshots welcome!
Thanks.

Originally Posted by tomsem

Beautiful, good to know.

Have you explored the Menu options while in the picture viewer, and are they the same as before? Wonder if the keyboard shortcuts still work? Or if bringing up the text options panel gives you the different image viewing options?

Screenshots welcome!
Thanks.

I attached a screen capture of the Menu within the Picture Viewer. I never used it with my K3 so I cannot compare the two. I've heard people asking about zooming, but I cannot see a way to do that with the K4.

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