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Originally Posted by jhowell
Each device checks Amazon's servers periodically to determine which group it is in with respect to experimental features. A device has to be in the correct group in order for a feature to appear.
Amazon seems to be slowly adding devices to the group that enables the lock screen cover feature. I suspect that restarting the device triggers it to check its Web Lab status sooner than it would normally do so, leading to a greater chance of seeing this feature enabled following a restart.
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That's what I thought, too -- but the series feature is almost a year old now and I *still* don't have it, despite having my kindle on wifi for almost a month waiting for it (what a waste of battery power). I suspect what they actually do is, rather than having a static partition and changing what features are enabled for accounts in that partition, that they incrementally move devices/accounts into an enabled group, and then the bug-filled sticking-plaster nature of Amazon software development can get a chance to "shine" by forgetting some of them exist and leaving them in the "features off" group forever.