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armstid · 09-25-2011, 02:02 AM

Hi all,

Go easy on me here but this is my first post and I have searched for weeks about this issue with no success.

I bought my wife a Kindle 3g/wifi with ads from Amazon.com a month ago and it arrived days later. After charging, I noticed the screensavers were of dead authors. I was pretty sure this was wrong. Then we tried to register the device (something Amazon should've done before shipping) and saw that it wasn't registered. Went into the account and clicked manage kindle and it told me that it hadn't left shipping yet. I thought maybe if I put it online it would somehow magically register the device and become an ad wifi3g kindle.

I tried connecting to wi-fi...nothing (bars no connectivity)

3g...nothing (no 3g symbol).

I am a librarian and do the majority of the networking at my library...that is to say...I KNOW that everything I did to connect to the wi-fi was correct.

Getting to my point. A couple of weeks passed with me calling Amazon to "check the status of my shipment" and them calling me back numerous times to apologize for the inconvenience but they had no record of the purchase or tracking # or serial # or anything. It was on my things ordered but never processed.

I sort of never really told them that I had gotten the thing. I didn't want to interrupt their eloquent apologies to tell them about MY menial problems.

A few days ago they over-nighted me a brand new upgraded ad-free version.

I can put books on the broken one just fine. Everything I would ever want a kindle for is reading and jailbreaking. Now my wife has a fully functional Kindle and I have a wonderful ebook reader that I can shred to pieces.

Commencing jailbreak 3.2.1... took! usbnetwork hack... took! Can see all root files but haven't touched a thing yet.

I'd like to see if I can fix the wifi issue. Any suggestions of where I might start to debug this thing?

And if I do, will the horribly apologetic souls at Kindle find me when I connect and come down on me with the hammer of Thor?

Sorry for the lengthiness. I'm just real proud of myself and had to tell the story. And after researching all the dev talk in this forum it seems you folks might be my only hope.

Help me Developer's Corner. You're my only hope.

09-25-2011, 02:02 AM	#1
armstid Member Retired Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: kindle 3 wifi 3g	First post...interesting problem, IMO Hi all, Go easy on me here but this is my first post and I have searched for weeks about this issue with no success. I bought my wife a Kindle 3g/wifi with ads from Amazon.com a month ago and it arrived days later. After charging, I noticed the screensavers were of dead authors. I was pretty sure this was wrong. Then we tried to register the device (something Amazon should've done before shipping) and saw that it wasn't registered. Went into the account and clicked manage kindle and it told me that it hadn't left shipping yet. I thought maybe if I put it online it would somehow magically register the device and become an ad wifi3g kindle. I tried connecting to wi-fi...nothing (bars no connectivity) 3g...nothing (no 3g symbol). I am a librarian and do the majority of the networking at my library...that is to say...I KNOW that everything I did to connect to the wi-fi was correct. Getting to my point. A couple of weeks passed with me calling Amazon to "check the status of my shipment" and them calling me back numerous times to apologize for the inconvenience but they had no record of the purchase or tracking # or serial # or anything. It was on my things ordered but never processed. I sort of never really told them that I had gotten the thing. I didn't want to interrupt their eloquent apologies to tell them about MY menial problems. A few days ago they over-nighted me a brand new upgraded ad-free version. I can put books on the broken one just fine. Everything I would ever want a kindle for is reading and jailbreaking. Now my wife has a fully functional Kindle and I have a wonderful ebook reader that I can shred to pieces. Commencing jailbreak 3.2.1... took! usbnetwork hack... took! Can see all root files but haven't touched a thing yet. I'd like to see if I can fix the wifi issue. Any suggestions of where I might start to debug this thing? And if I do, will the horribly apologetic souls at Kindle find me when I connect and come down on me with the hammer of Thor? Sorry for the lengthiness. I'm just real proud of myself and had to tell the story. And after researching all the dev talk in this forum it seems you folks might be my only hope. Help me Developer's Corner. You're my only hope.