[cybmole]

scary experience this morning, I disconnect from overnight charge & wake up the fire tablet to be greeted with "please register" + all my apps gone from home screen.

I did that thing & also want via mayday for help getting it back as it was, ( after re-registering I was seeing lots of greyed-out icons) but they had no explanation for it losing settings. I thought maybe an overnight software update but tablet is saying that its software was last updated a month ago ?

so no lasting harm - my sideloaded apps like google chrome are still there, and other apps seem to have retained their data - but still a tad worrying.

google offers no obvious explanation of why Kindle device should suddenly "forget" it's registration overnight ( while plugged into an amazon wall charger)