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geekmaster · 06-22-2016, 10:28 AM

My PW3 just switched itself to the diags USB EXPORT function. It is asking me to connect its USB cable to my PC. I did not do that. The flaky touchscreen must have selected that menu item without my consent. Hopefully it won't do something bad by pressing random menu items, like erase my idme vars or something...

Meanwhile, still charging on a USB charger (except the power LED just now turned off). Hmm... Is it charging or not? Perhaps time to plug it into my PC, even if not fully charged.

Update: okay, connect to PC. Screen changed to say "USB device exported", and it also says "Battery capacity 97" so if that can be trusted, then it is almost fully charged. I will let it sit and see if that number goes up or down. The power LED is still off. And strangely, my computer detected the Tobii Eye Tracking device again, which tells me it is exporting the USBnet RNDIS device and NOT the "USB device" (i.e. USB mass storage) as it claims.

More weird behavior. Ghosts in the machine.

Update2: However, my computer sees it as a USB drive, matching what is on the PW3 display, despite that RNDIS device detection. Interesting. It is not in the routing table, so that must have been a transitory phase after plugging the kindle into my host PC USB port. USBnet has "auto" set, so perhaps that had something to do with it?

06-22-2016, 10:28 AM	#186
geekmaster Carpe diem, c'est la vie. Posts: 6,433 Karma: 10773670 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Multiverse 6627A Device: K1 to PW3	My PW3 just switched itself to the diags USB EXPORT function. It is asking me to connect its USB cable to my PC. I did not do that. The flaky touchscreen must have selected that menu item without my consent. Hopefully it won't do something bad by pressing random menu items, like erase my idme vars or something... Meanwhile, still charging on a USB charger (except the power LED just now turned off). Hmm... Is it charging or not? Perhaps time to plug it into my PC, even if not fully charged. Update: okay, connect to PC. Screen changed to say "USB device exported", and it also says "Battery capacity 97" so if that can be trusted, then it is almost fully charged. I will let it sit and see if that number goes up or down. The power LED is still off. And strangely, my computer detected the Tobii Eye Tracking device again, which tells me it is exporting the USBnet RNDIS device and NOT the "USB device" (i.e. USB mass storage) as it claims. More weird behavior. Ghosts in the machine. Update2: However, my computer sees it as a USB drive, matching what is on the PW3 display, despite that RNDIS device detection. Interesting. It is not in the routing table, so that must have been a transitory phase after plugging the kindle into my host PC USB port. USBnet has "auto" set, so perhaps that had something to do with it? Last edited by geekmaster; 06-22-2016 at 10:38 AM.