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Originally Posted by bonacker
If the WiFi is disabled with Airplane Mode on, I assume the phoning home proclivity can not over-ride Airplane Mode, but I often forget to turn Airplane Mode on. I'll be keeping an eye on my router log to see if it also phones home with Airplane Mode on.
I realize that the Kindle is going to communicate with Amazon for various reasons (I have the model that displays downloaded ads), but since the universally held assumption about power buttons is that power buttons turn off the power to devices completely, this seems to me sneaky.
One possibility is that the device will activate its WiFi on a plane or other place where WiFi should not be used, with the user confident that that couldn't happen, because the power has been switched off.
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I think that's why Amazon includes the Airplane Mode -- so you can make sure the Kindle definitely does
not come on when you're on an airplane. Just hitting the power switch puts the Kindle in Sleep Mode. If you want to power off your Kindle, you'll have to follow Dave320's instructions. I'm pretty sure your Kindle won't power itself back on, but it definitely
will come out of Sleep Mode to check for ad updates.