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Originally Posted by knc1
Check my post above the one you answered -
Try different cable, make sure your using the same USB port as when it did work.
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Sorry, missed your post #30 at the bottom of the page. It's also the obvious first step.
So...
The cable from my old K3 worked - which is younger than the K3, two or three years old. But straight after that, the new cable worked again. The port is USB3 and the laptop only has the one USB port. But everything was fine first time I tried, yesterday, and it's the new cable that came in the box.
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Originally Posted by knc1
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We are going to be seeing a lot of this I think -
Bluetooth speakers come with the "power only" USB cables -
So if you plug in the Kindle with the speaker's USB cable, suddenly the Kindle is "broke". 
Not really "broke" it only looks that way.
And Amazon did not think to add that caution to the page on the limitations of VV over Bluetooth. |
I haven't enabled either VV or Bluetooth, at all. I may have started to enable Bluetooth when exploring the settings, but cancelled before it found anything. I don't use it in any other context.
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Originally Posted by knc1
No, that was just the most frequent cause.
*) Check the cable.
There are two types of USB cables - ones that are "Power Only" and ones that pass power and data.
A "Power Only" cable (such as from some other external USB device) will act as you describe.
*) Check which version of USB port.
Use a USB-2 version, not a USB-3 version.
There was a multi-million chip mistake in USB-3 interface chips by the industries biggest supplier - making them not compatible with some USB-2 (like the Kindle) devices.
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I have a multi-port adapter which I was using today, the first time the cable "failed", but it also failed when I plugged it in direct to the laptop's port. But then it didn't.
Right, just getting those files to attach...