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Old 09-14-2012, 08:02 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by pmugabi View Post
FWIW, the Kindle has been plugged into an always on laptop for the past 2 days as I tried to fix the issue. It is also reporting tha the battery is at 100% in diag mode.

However I have now moved it to a wall charger and I'm going to read up on the low-power fake drive mode as suggested above.
It is worth a try.

Since it is hard to trust the indications given by a machine (of any sort) that is not working properly.

The "fake drive mode" is just a power saving mode.

It presents the user with a "user storage area" view (to let them know the thing is working) without actually giving access to make changes on the flash.

The flash device can only do read/erase/re-program and the erase/re-program are both power hungry operations.
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