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greeneggs · 07-30-2010, 03:13 AM

I have a major problem now. My Kindle isn't responding or doing anything. Nothing works. it won't open the dictionary, the guides, any ebooks - anything. I can't use the browser (I type in an address and select go to and it just stops until I press home again), and I can't access the settings, or turn wireless off (I do it and then I go back to the menu and it's still on, like I never did anything). I can navigate with the cursor fine in home and rotate the kindle to landscape mode, but that's all that works. Also my collection doesn't show up now. I have no idea what I did.

Sorry for the length, but I'm going to explain everything I did in a fair amount of detail:

I decided to skip putting all my small files on for now and using calibre I converted and attempted to put on my larger ebooks (1mb-15mb each). I converted them and didn't realize that it made a couple of them 20x larger in filesize and I transferred them all over to the kindle. I let it go for like a half hour until it transferred (a bit over 1gb total), however when I tried to open them they wouldn't work. I noticed that the file sizes were so large and so I went back to home by pressing the button and then used the calibre to delete everything off the kindle, delete the huge mobi files it created, and finally reupload the pdfs onto the kindle. However now none of my books show up at all. I've since tried deleting all the pdfs without using calibre, and putting it back in (of course in the documents folder) but still it won't work. If I hook it up to calibre and ask it to list what's on the device it tells me what it should have and I can open them from the device just fine using calibre. I've also tried deleting the calibre metadata in the root folder. I've turned it on and off many times now and also connected and disconnected it from the computer. None of the other function work either, except moving the cursor around, rotating it, and turning it on/off.

Anybody know what could have happened? I never disconnected it or closed calibre while it was working; and I haven't really done anything except add and remove some books so far. Is there anyway I can reset my kindle back to default settings or something?

07-30-2010, 03:13 AM	#2
greeneggs Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: none	I have a major problem now. My Kindle isn't responding or doing anything. Nothing works. it won't open the dictionary, the guides, any ebooks - anything. I can't use the browser (I type in an address and select go to and it just stops until I press home again), and I can't access the settings, or turn wireless off (I do it and then I go back to the menu and it's still on, like I never did anything). I can navigate with the cursor fine in home and rotate the kindle to landscape mode, but that's all that works. Also my collection doesn't show up now. I have no idea what I did. Sorry for the length, but I'm going to explain everything I did in a fair amount of detail: I decided to skip putting all my small files on for now and using calibre I converted and attempted to put on my larger ebooks (1mb-15mb each). I converted them and didn't realize that it made a couple of them 20x larger in filesize and I transferred them all over to the kindle. I let it go for like a half hour until it transferred (a bit over 1gb total), however when I tried to open them they wouldn't work. I noticed that the file sizes were so large and so I went back to home by pressing the button and then used the calibre to delete everything off the kindle, delete the huge mobi files it created, and finally reupload the pdfs onto the kindle. However now none of my books show up at all. I've since tried deleting all the pdfs without using calibre, and putting it back in (of course in the documents folder) but still it won't work. If I hook it up to calibre and ask it to list what's on the device it tells me what it should have and I can open them from the device just fine using calibre. I've also tried deleting the calibre metadata in the root folder. I've turned it on and off many times now and also connected and disconnected it from the computer. None of the other function work either, except moving the cursor around, rotating it, and turning it on/off. Anybody know what could have happened? I never disconnected it or closed calibre while it was working; and I haven't really done anything except add and remove some books so far. Is there anyway I can reset my kindle back to default settings or something?