Thread: Troubleshooting Experimental Browser Downloads failing
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Old 07-24-2020, 09:56 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Deskisamess View Post
Working with that experiment browser, that hasn't changed since 2009, takes so much time, it has to be quicker to just use USB.

I just tried it...my Paperwhite 4 browser won't even connect to the Content Server running on my laptop.

Edited to add, it did finally connect after I added "mobile" to the IP address, and a 200 mb book downloaded correctly. A USB connection would have been faster, but it did work.
Apologies, missed the notification. Actually, after your suggestion that it would work I tried the actual content server on my laptop, and later back to my NAS.

The key issue I was having was that I was interpreting the "moving animated circle" on the top left of the Kindle screen to be that it was downloading, and so when it stopped I assumed that it had finished.

In fact, by chance, this time around after giving up I left it on the browser window even after the circle disappeared, and after a few minutes a popup notification that the download had finished did show up!

So it was very much user error - it just assumed it was no longer downloading when in fact it still was.

Sorry for the trouble, and thank you for the patience.
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