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mand · 11-16-2016, 12:58 PM

I just did the factory reset. Reconnected to wifi and to my Amazon account.

Turned off home screen view, public notes and highlights. Changed nothing else in the settings.

Next time I did was create a collection. The kindle went so slow that I thought it had frozen completely - after three taps ("Create collection", Home, and then the quick actions bar hoping to turn wifi off) I realised it wasn't responding and went away to do something else. When I came back it had followed those three commands.

I should say that I had the device plugged in at the wall, and after re-entering my wifi password I'd left wifi on. Now I turned it off.

Created that and one more collection, and retrieved one from the cloud (I've decided to get rid of all my other collections that are in the cloud and work with a much simpler "filing" system). Obviously I turned wifi back on for that! Also downloaded three items from the cloud, of which one kindle book and two kindle samples, all within the collection that I had in the cloud.

After that moment of sulking, everything worked smoothly. There is a slight delay responding to taps. From experience with my old Keyboard, the cycle seems to be a gradual slowing until the thing hangs or freezes and then restarts spontaneously*; worse when the battery's low, and worse with wifi on. I suppose both of those mean it needs to work harder to keep up. Also, worse when the task requires reading a long list - going to home screen responds slower than going into a collection, for example.
* I don't think the new one restarted itself today, as it was showing one of the "decorative" sleep screens, not the Kindle logo one.

Just now I searched for a nonsense string, and for ;dm, and there seems to be nothing still indexing. But I have four log files now (they don't seem to exist until i do a search

):

all wpa supplicant logs
wininfo logs
all netlog logs
all system logs

I haven't really got time to be here, for another two or three days, but need to give this update while it's fresh in my mind. I won't have time to get onto Amazon either, probably for three days from now. So if I seem to be ignoring your replies, I won't actually be.

11-16-2016, 12:58 PM	#82
mand Zealot Posts: 112 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Wiltshire, UK Device: Kindle Paperwhite 7th gen; Kindle Keyboard; iRex iLiad	I just did the factory reset. Reconnected to wifi and to my Amazon account. Turned off home screen view, public notes and highlights. Changed nothing else in the settings. Next time I did was create a collection. The kindle went so slow that I thought it had frozen completely - after three taps ("Create collection", Home, and then the quick actions bar hoping to turn wifi off) I realised it wasn't responding and went away to do something else. When I came back it had followed those three commands. I should say that I had the device plugged in at the wall, and after re-entering my wifi password I'd left wifi on. Now I turned it off. Created that and one more collection, and retrieved one from the cloud (I've decided to get rid of all my other collections that are in the cloud and work with a much simpler "filing" system). Obviously I turned wifi back on for that! Also downloaded three items from the cloud, of which one kindle book and two kindle samples, all within the collection that I had in the cloud. After that moment of sulking, everything worked smoothly. There is a slight delay responding to taps. From experience with my old Keyboard, the cycle seems to be a gradual slowing until the thing hangs or freezes and then restarts spontaneously; worse when the battery's low, and worse with wifi on. I suppose both of those mean it needs to work harder to keep up. Also, worse when the task requires reading a long list - going to home screen responds slower than going into a collection, for example. I don't think the new one restarted itself today, as it was showing one of the "decorative" sleep screens, not the Kindle logo one. Just now I searched for a nonsense string, and for ;dm, and there seems to be nothing still indexing. But I have four log files now (they don't seem to exist until i do a search ): all wpa supplicant logs wininfo logs all netlog logs all system logs I haven't really got time to be here, for another two or three days, but need to give this update while it's fresh in my mind. I won't have time to get onto Amazon either, probably for three days from now. So if I seem to be ignoring your replies, I won't actually be. Last edited by mand; 11-16-2016 at 01:00 PM.