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Old 10-18-2017, 12:57 PM   #201
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Originally Posted by haertig View Post
Since I'm new to the PW3, can anyone tell me, are these updates typically stable? Or are we being a guinea pigs for possibly buggy releases when we download/install one manually prior to it coming out "over the air"? Should we run into problems with a release, is there a method to roll back the installation to a previous firmware?
They are generally pretty stable. Bugs tend to be minor and when they occur it is usually at least a month until the next update comes out to fix them.

The Kindle firmware has protection against rolling back to an older release. Once you upgrade there is no going back (unless you have it jailbroken or open it up to access the internal serial port.)

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