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Originally Posted by pazos
Try to long press the power button for almost a minute. It should work (IIRC it worked on a PW1)
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No amount of fiddling with the power button will power off a kindle.
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I charge my Oases once every 4-5 months when unused.
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Oases 2 and 3 and PW4 are able to hibernate, which is almost the same a power off. If all kindles could do that, almost all the need to power down a kindle would go away.
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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
If the screen is off, which is one of the choices that appear when you hold the power button for 5-10 seconds, what would still be "on"? They aren't like a computer or phone doing stuff in the background.
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That amazon dialog is poorly worded.
e-ink screens only use power when changing. A sleep screen image uses no more power than a blank screen.
Kindles
are computers doing stuff in the back ground.
There are at least two different pieces of evidence that kindles do not power power down except under unusual conditions.
1. Kindles take a long time to boot. That doesn't happen after using a mumbo jumbo method to power a kindle off.
2. People have examined system logs after waking a kindle after a mumbo jumbo power of method and they are no different from those of a normal wake from sleep.
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Put it in airplane mode, turn the screen off, and the device is off.
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Why do you think the device is off after that?