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curiositykt · 03-10-2010, 03:48 PM

Yesterday I went to turn on my kindle after having not used it in a week. The battery was dead so I plugged it in and let it charge for a little while. After half an hour or so I got impatient and unplugged it and turned it on. It came on and I downloaded my latest updates and started reading a new magazine that had shown up. A few pages into the magazine it suddenly was non responsive and the page had frozen. So I tried to turn it off and on, no luck. Then I tried to go back to the menu screen, no luck. Then I tried to put it in to screensaver mode, no luck. Then I opened up the back and pressed the reset button. At this point black lines started to populate the screen. I took out the battery and put it back in. I tried reset button again. I plugged it in to see if perhaps it was the battery (the light came on) and left it until the light went off.. but nothing changed.

This is how it looks now:

http://twitpic.com/17mn81

I've had it for 13 months, so it's out of warranty. I'm all for trying to repair it myself, but I don't have any idea what is wrong with it.

03-10-2010, 03:48 PM	#1
curiositykt Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: Kindle 1	Kindle 1 suddenly not working! Yesterday I went to turn on my kindle after having not used it in a week. The battery was dead so I plugged it in and let it charge for a little while. After half an hour or so I got impatient and unplugged it and turned it on. It came on and I downloaded my latest updates and started reading a new magazine that had shown up. A few pages into the magazine it suddenly was non responsive and the page had frozen. So I tried to turn it off and on, no luck. Then I tried to go back to the menu screen, no luck. Then I tried to put it in to screensaver mode, no luck. Then I opened up the back and pressed the reset button. At this point black lines started to populate the screen. I took out the battery and put it back in. I tried reset button again. I plugged it in to see if perhaps it was the battery (the light came on) and left it until the light went off.. but nothing changed. This is how it looks now: http://twitpic.com/17mn81 I've had it for 13 months, so it's out of warranty. I'm all for trying to repair it myself, but I don't have any idea what is wrong with it.