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doctorfrog · 05-14-2016, 06:50 PM

To start with this post, I want to first say thanks to those who volunteer their time to helping dopes like me who get things tangled up. I have a fairly thick skin and will not be upset overmuch if I don't get a whole heck of a lot of help with this. But please update the OP with the warning "DO NOT EVER FACTORY RESET YOUR DEVICE."

I have a Kindle Touch purchased from Amazon in December. Model is MP63GW, which I think you guys here call a KV? Up until recently I had it in Airplane mode at all times, having first de-registered it. I recently Jailbroke it, because I can't resist tinkering with things, and registered it.

And I realized how much I hate ads. So much. I realize such a sentiment is scoffed at here (partly out of a deference to Amazon that is in some ways understandable), but I wanted to be rid of them immediately. So I deregistered.

And I got an unsettling message next time I rebooted, something about this Kindle not being a test device any more? Confusing. And I was still getting ads. So I factory reset it. Yeah, not bright. I realize now that wasn't the thing to do.

So I'm pretty lucky that my Kindle still works for the basic reading tasks I only ever wanted it to do in the first place. (I sideload with Calibre.)

Except for one thing. Books that are loaded as MOBI don't work properly. I can view them and all that, but if I switch from one MOBI book to another, I lose my place in the previous book. If I load the book, it skips all the way to the beginning of the book, reading as "1%" in the lower right. If I swipe forward, then back, I can usually get my place back, but otherwise end up at the cover.

This behavior does not happen with AZW books or when switching between AZW and MOBI files.

I reapplied the Jailbreak and Hotfix, and appear to have done so successfully, but this behavior persists.

If it's possible to help me restore the original functionality, that'd be great, but otherwise, I guess my idiotic mistakes can be held up as some sort of warning to others. In the meantime, I'll be converting books to AZW and hope that nothing else breaks.

05-14-2016, 06:50 PM	#1025
doctorfrog Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2013 Device: Kindle Basic 2014	To start with this post, I want to first say thanks to those who volunteer their time to helping dopes like me who get things tangled up. I have a fairly thick skin and will not be upset overmuch if I don't get a whole heck of a lot of help with this. But please update the OP with the warning "DO NOT EVER FACTORY RESET YOUR DEVICE." I have a Kindle Touch purchased from Amazon in December. Model is MP63GW, which I think you guys here call a KV? Up until recently I had it in Airplane mode at all times, having first de-registered it. I recently Jailbroke it, because I can't resist tinkering with things, and registered it. And I realized how much I hate ads. So much. I realize such a sentiment is scoffed at here (partly out of a deference to Amazon that is in some ways understandable), but I wanted to be rid of them immediately. So I deregistered. And I got an unsettling message next time I rebooted, something about this Kindle not being a test device any more? Confusing. And I was still getting ads. So I factory reset it. Yeah, not bright. I realize now that wasn't the thing to do. So I'm pretty lucky that my Kindle still works for the basic reading tasks I only ever wanted it to do in the first place. (I sideload with Calibre.) Except for one thing. Books that are loaded as MOBI don't work properly. I can view them and all that, but if I switch from one MOBI book to another, I lose my place in the previous book. If I load the book, it skips all the way to the beginning of the book, reading as "1%" in the lower right. If I swipe forward, then back, I can usually get my place back, but otherwise end up at the cover. This behavior does not happen with AZW books or when switching between AZW and MOBI files. I reapplied the Jailbreak and Hotfix, and appear to have done so successfully, but this behavior persists. If it's possible to help me restore the original functionality, that'd be great, but otherwise, I guess my idiotic mistakes can be held up as some sort of warning to others. In the meantime, I'll be converting books to AZW and hope that nothing else breaks.