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Old 03-29-2017, 05:20 AM   #15
anunay
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The Complete story

I think that my previous posts were not clear enought so I am going to rewrite the whole thing again:-
  1. I was trying to VNC into debian that I have chrooted on my kindle.
  2. As everyone knows, Kindle goes into sleep after 10 minutes and disconnects from wifi, which caused my ssh connection to disconnect (I prefer SSHing over wifi).
  3. So I made a simple application to stop screensaver (which is attached below) by using the syntax other programs use.(I clicked on DISABLE SCREENSAVER in that Program)
  4. But after some time I noticed that my kindle went to sleep, So I clicked on the power button(located at the bottom) to unlock the device.
  5. But instead of the screen two bubble like structures moving on the screen appeared, they disappeared as soon as I touched the screen. ( I named them as Screensaver because Windows uses animated Screensaver which go away on any hardware event)
  6. I immediately reported this on Mobiread and continued my work.
  7. After about 30 minutes (I had already disconnected SSH and left the kindle untouched (which means on the home screen)), I again pressed the power button and was presented with a new animation, in which Bugs were running down the screen ( they were leaving some trail as they were on a eink), I Captured a video and uploaded it.
  8. This time I knew I have stumbled upon something new. SO I Waited about another 30 minutes(I thought it would be better to wait 30 rather than 10) and captured the whole event from pressing of power button to touching screen ( in which the 2nd animation occurred).
  9. I Think that it is a experimental feature because Those animations cannot appear from between nowhere.
  10. After that I force-restarted my Kindle (by pressing the power button for 40 sec), and i have not seen those animations since then.


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I completely agree with knc1 that this will consume a lot of battery (as CPU will continuously need to render images and update the eink) so screensaver is not the right word for it, but as I can't get another word so I called it a screensaver.
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