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Originally Posted by matt314159
I have had one hard crash like that. I went to the experimental menu and it crashed. It was about 10 minutes after I downloaded a book out of my archive. However, it was the *only* book I had downloaded, so I wonder if it was indexing still or not. 10 minutes for one book seems like a long time.
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(I have the Wifi only version.) I'd bought a book from Amazon using the Wifi connection and was still poking around in the Amazon store when my Kindle locked up. I tried to wait it out in case there was some background operation trying to finish. After a long while I tried a 4-second reset; after several tries with no response I tried to shut it down with a 15-second hold of the on/off switch and the screen went to blank.
At that point it looked like it was bricked. No screen, no response to any combination of attempts to reset, not visible on the PC when plugged in. I finally found this thread and tried Knuthmeyer's "long long" hold on the on/off switch. At first it didn't seem to have done anything. Then it suddenly flashed the screen and gave me the startup screen I got the first time I tried to start it.
I think I'll make my book selections with the PC and just use the Wifi to download the books until I know what's going on.