MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Kindle DX no longer syncs (esp. date/time)

thewoosh · 04-03-2021, 07:29 AM

Hi
I have been using a couple of DX2s for 10 years - the best device I ever owned. I bought one to read PDFs off-screen but as my eyes have deteriorated, I now use it (and it's more recently purchased backup) just for reading in general.

Recently, however, problems have emerged. I can no longer connect to 3G - probably because there is no longer any 3G here as we progress from 4G to 5G locally. I never really purchased much content from Amazon so I don't have a problem that I can no longer download books but I do have a problem with dates...

In the past I found I had to connect to the internet from time-to-time otherwise the device would lose track of time and no longer store my latest read at the top of the list when I viewed the list by date. Now that I can no longer do so, it never does.

Having several hundred documents on the Kindle and often reading several at once, this makes life complicated, as every time I return to the home screen I then have to hunt down the last thing I read in order to go back to it. It is majorly annoying!

Does anyone have any suggestions about a work-around for this or better explanations why it might be happening?

I have loved this technology for a decade and was expecting to do so for a decade more but now I am being forced to consider an alternative (like a Boox)...
I'd love to hear suggestions...

PS It's a jail-broke DX B008 running 3.2.1.

04-03-2021, 07:29 AM	#1
thewoosh Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2021 Device: Kindle DX	Kindle DX no longer syncs (esp. date/time) Hi I have been using a couple of DX2s for 10 years - the best device I ever owned. I bought one to read PDFs off-screen but as my eyes have deteriorated, I now use it (and it's more recently purchased backup) just for reading in general. Recently, however, problems have emerged. I can no longer connect to 3G - probably because there is no longer any 3G here as we progress from 4G to 5G locally. I never really purchased much content from Amazon so I don't have a problem that I can no longer download books but I do have a problem with dates... In the past I found I had to connect to the internet from time-to-time otherwise the device would lose track of time and no longer store my latest read at the top of the list when I viewed the list by date. Now that I can no longer do so, it never does. Having several hundred documents on the Kindle and often reading several at once, this makes life complicated, as every time I return to the home screen I then have to hunt down the last thing I read in order to go back to it. It is majorly annoying! Does anyone have any suggestions about a work-around for this or better explanations why it might be happening? I have loved this technology for a decade and was expecting to do so for a decade more but now I am being forced to consider an alternative (like a Boox)... I'd love to hear suggestions... PS It's a jail-broke DX B008 running 3.2.1.