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Originally Posted by j.p.s

In 2106 amazon was nagging me to update my K2 and referred me to this page:
https://www.amazon.com/ku2016?ref_=deveng_eicert
which says 5.6.1.1 is the minimum required for the pw1

Thanks, It was in 2016 that the kIndle started rebooting trying to install 5.6.1.1 but it wouldn't take it.
I stumbled on to that webpage in my travels trying to fix this issue. This paperwhite has been registered and working with 5.4.4.2 up until a week or so ago when it suddenly dropped out of the account and couldn't be registered again. Seems Amazon may have finally stopped servicing devices with firmware older than 5.6.1.1.
I just noticed today that it doesn't download and try to install the 5.6.1.1 update since it became unregistered.