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Originally Posted by h2r2d2
I've had my Kindle Keyboard (Kindle 3) for probably close to 8 years.
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Hopefully someone else will come along with a specific repair plan.
I don't have one, so I'll first give a general repair philosophy.
My wife and I take our Kindle Keyboards with us almost everywhere. She's more careful with her things than me, so her Kindles hardly ever break. But with all that reading, and movement, they will. Eight years is a tremendous run. Anyway, what I do is always have a few replacement Kindles in the house. I make sure that at least one is in working order to serve as a quick replacement, with others as a store of parts. There are cheaper places than eBay to buy spares (Goodwill?), but I have used eBay.
It may be that reloading the software will fix your problem. But, personally, since I have the parts, if in your situation I might next try swapping out the motherboard. Several google-able web sites have instructions.
P.S. You can see that we also have a Fire. We only have one, and it has two uses: the Washington Post, and the occassional library eBook (mostly Brooklyn Cloud Library) that isn't eInk Kindle-compatible. We feel that built-in lighting is unneeded and will, like you, choose the Kindle Keyboard if given a choice.