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torto · 11-30-2019, 08:35 AM

Dear kindlemasters, my PW3 showed me the dreaded "Your kindle needs repair" message but was still connecting to my computer, so I tried to do the DO_FACTORY_RESTORE I found.
Now it is has been showing the kindle tree with a spinning wheel on top. I read somewhere it is probably some filesystem repair thing and it might last long, which makes sense since I switched it off and on many times while it was loading, but it's been about 20 days since...
Does it still make any sense to wait on this? Is there anything other than hardware hacking that I can do to save him? It is not jailbroken, it is on a very recent firmware, and this happened after I tried to open a *very* large web page sent to it that made it crash several times.
Thanks!

11-30-2019, 08:35 AM	#1
torto Enthusiast Posts: 31 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2019 Device: Kindle PW1, Kindle PW2 (RIP), Kindle 4, Tolino Vision 5	Kindle P3: how long a spinning wheel lasts? Dear kindlemasters, my PW3 showed me the dreaded "Your kindle needs repair" message but was still connecting to my computer, so I tried to do the DO_FACTORY_RESTORE I found. Now it is has been showing the kindle tree with a spinning wheel on top. I read somewhere it is probably some filesystem repair thing and it might last long, which makes sense since I switched it off and on many times while it was loading, but it's been about 20 days since... Does it still make any sense to wait on this? Is there anything other than hardware hacking that I can do to save him? It is not jailbroken, it is on a very recent firmware, and this happened after I tried to open a very large web page sent to it that made it crash several times. Thanks!