Thread: Kindle 6 e-reader phoning home while "off"
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Old 12-12-2014, 12:29 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by bonacker View Post
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.
As others have posted, you can't really power off a Kindle--and it is normal for the Kindle to communicate--downloading updates, etc from Amazon when it is in sleep mode. When Wi-Fi is off (airplane mode on) there won't be any attempts by the Kindle to contact Amazon's servers. If you don't want your Kindle to contact Amazon when sleeping why not just leave Airplane Mode on most of the time? That will save battery life as well. Then you just have to turn wi-fi on when you want to connect to Amazon.
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