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Frolosse · 05-17-2023, 11:39 PM

Hello,

I bought an Oasis 3 10th gen, end of 2019. I am very happy with it. Love the screen, the buttons, the reading comfort. Always updated it, and I am on the latest firmware 5.15.1.1.

A few months ago, problems started to occur and I could solve most of them (I am writing it here in case this can help someone) :

- The page were turning themselves. Sometimes when I was clicking the forward button, it was moving one to a few pages forward. It was not consistent.
I tried to reboot it, do a hard reset, clean the screen. Nothing was working until I decided to cleaned up the buttons and put some alcohol on them to make sure nothing was obstructing them. It looks like it solved the problem.
Most likely this was caused by using my kindle in my pool, I found some calcium deposit in the charging port. Some deposit must have been accumulating in the buttons.

- After I solved the first issue, it started to reboot on its own while I was reading. This was most likely caused by the hard reset that I did and the books that I copied back on my kindle (I copied them directly from the /documents folder, and I did not add them back on Calibre for example).
I deleted the books from /documents, and re-imported the KFX from Calibre only (sounds like the problem here was about the metafiles that are in the /documents folder)

- Another problem occurred, my kindle was freezing, not waking up in the morning. The battery was discharging very fast too and sometimes completely dead in the morning. The kindle refused to sleep, even if I was clicking on the sleep button. The green light was showing, but the kindle was wide awake.
I took a while to understand that most of it was caused by the official leather case. It must be something with the case's magnet that is not causing problems to the Kindle.
I removed the case, and now I don't have those problems.

After all of this, I still got one issue. My kindle is now really slow to sleep when I click the sleep button, or it simply does not sleep. The green light shows up but the behavior is not really consistent. It's either sleeping after 10s/20s delay, or it stays awake.

A temporary solution that I got is to actually reboot the kindle in the settings when the kindle refuses to sleep. After a reboot, it looks like it can get into sleep, even if the 10s/20s delay is still there.

Any one got anything similar happening to their Kindle?

Thanks

05-17-2023, 11:39 PM	#1
Frolosse Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2015 Device: Kobo Aura H2O	Kindle Oasis 3 10th gen problems Hello, I bought an Oasis 3 10th gen, end of 2019. I am very happy with it. Love the screen, the buttons, the reading comfort. Always updated it, and I am on the latest firmware 5.15.1.1. A few months ago, problems started to occur and I could solve most of them (I am writing it here in case this can help someone) : - The page were turning themselves. Sometimes when I was clicking the forward button, it was moving one to a few pages forward. It was not consistent. I tried to reboot it, do a hard reset, clean the screen. Nothing was working until I decided to cleaned up the buttons and put some alcohol on them to make sure nothing was obstructing them. It looks like it solved the problem. Most likely this was caused by using my kindle in my pool, I found some calcium deposit in the charging port. Some deposit must have been accumulating in the buttons. - After I solved the first issue, it started to reboot on its own while I was reading. This was most likely caused by the hard reset that I did and the books that I copied back on my kindle (I copied them directly from the /documents folder, and I did not add them back on Calibre for example). I deleted the books from /documents, and re-imported the KFX from Calibre only (sounds like the problem here was about the metafiles that are in the /documents folder) - Another problem occurred, my kindle was freezing, not waking up in the morning. The battery was discharging very fast too and sometimes completely dead in the morning. The kindle refused to sleep, even if I was clicking on the sleep button. The green light was showing, but the kindle was wide awake. I took a while to understand that most of it was caused by the official leather case. It must be something with the case's magnet that is not causing problems to the Kindle. I removed the case, and now I don't have those problems. After all of this, I still got one issue. My kindle is now really slow to sleep when I click the sleep button, or it simply does not sleep. The green light shows up but the behavior is not really consistent. It's either sleeping after 10s/20s delay, or it stays awake. A temporary solution that I got is to actually reboot the kindle in the settings when the kindle refuses to sleep. After a reboot, it looks like it can get into sleep, even if the 10s/20s delay is still there. Any one got anything similar happening to their Kindle? Thanks