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Old 10-26-2017, 11:17 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by knc1 View Post
So reboot it.

Yes, it is an indication of a hardware problem that can grow worse.
But the start-up boot code includes tests and corrections for the problem.

Be sure you have a full charge on the battery and then, as mentioned above, reboot it.
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Originally Posted by AlanHK View Post
I know you were trying to be helpful.,
But I did not ask how to fix it (which I have done anyway, by open/close; changing brightness, or indeed rebooting) I asked what it meant. If it was a symptom of a serious problem.

Naively I thought Kindle OS was more stable than PCs and glitches indicated a hardware issue rather than in the Windows world where the OS is so flaky that it just gets unstable for no external reason and "reboot" is the answer to 90% of problems.
Better that you re-read my post that included the answer to "what it meant" then.
I have quoted it above.

Do you want the technical details, complete with terms of art?
I thought you just wanted a yes/no type of answer to "does it indicate a hardware issue" (ANS: YES).

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Windows is a poor choice for a baseline standard.
Google for "uptime records".

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