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Originally Posted by knc1
Without the device in hand, I can only offer a guess -
but a very reasonable guess based on your details.
"I pressed power button to start reading, but the device did not respond immediately."
It was busy with an OTA update.
"I first thought it was due to low battery. So I charged it overnight. No luck. Then I took apart the device and gave the battery an full charge."
Yup - it was a low battery (low storage capacity battery due to age and/or use patterns).
Not enough stored charge to complete the OTA update.
So now your flash chip is corrupted.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...49&postcount=3
I.E: Your Kindle just "self destructed".
What you see is the firmware's "fall back" response to its inability to load and run the (trashed) firmware image. |
Hi knc1,
Thank you for the reply. The device was put in airplane mode for quite some time and at the time it was not in a place with Wi-fi connection. Will it still perform OTA update?
The battery was low but from the system battery icon it could still work for hours.