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Barty · 02-25-2014, 03:50 PM

Put down my pw2 for a few minutes and it was rebooting when I came back. I thought hmm why is it rebooting. Then saw message your kindle is updating, do not turn off. What the heck?

The weird thing is I had connected to wifi but very briefly, almost certainly not enough time to download a 100M+ file.

I had to spend an hour putting back all my hacks and patches. If it'd been on vacation without access to my PC, I would have been royally p.o'ed.

Really, there's no real reason for amazon to update my kindle like this without asking me. Not like it's an always connected device with dangerous security exposure.

I installed the backdoorlock hack. Hopefully, that'll put an end to this.

02-25-2014, 03:50 PM	#1
Barty doofus Posts: 2,552 Karma: 13089041 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Voyage	What the heck? Pw2 updated itself by itself. Put down my pw2 for a few minutes and it was rebooting when I came back. I thought hmm why is it rebooting. Then saw message your kindle is updating, do not turn off. What the heck? The weird thing is I had connected to wifi but very briefly, almost certainly not enough time to download a 100M+ file. I had to spend an hour putting back all my hacks and patches. If it'd been on vacation without access to my PC, I would have been royally p.o'ed. Really, there's no real reason for amazon to update my kindle like this without asking me. Not like it's an always connected device with dangerous security exposure. I installed the backdoorlock hack. Hopefully, that'll put an end to this.