Thread: Old kindle - can't reset to factory settings?
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Old 04-26-2019, 08:43 AM   #10
shalym
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
I wonder if Deregister would have gotten the same result without Reset. It is almost as ‘flattening’ as Reset but would leave any side-loaded content alone (I think), and maybe on the older devices, Amazon content and Personal Documents as well. Newer devices support custom fonts and Deregister did not remove those (but still have to recreate Themes), but content was all gone (I rarely side-load anything).
How new was the device? I just de-registered my Voyage running the latest firmware, and all of the content that was on the device was still there, even after a reboot. The content was a mix of books bought from Amazon, and books bought elsewhere and uploaded to my Kindle cloud. None of them disappeared when I de-registered the device. I was even able to open the book I was reading and take up right where I left off.

I'll try it with my Oasis in a bit.

Maybe the device you de-registered was a Fire, rather than an e-ink Kindle?

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