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Old 06-25-2012, 05:15 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
A "screensaver" clock on the Kindle wouldn't work, because the screen never gets updated when the Kindle is asleep. It would simply show you the time that the Kindle went to sleep, which doesn't sound terribly useful to me .
There is an kindle clock "screensaver" in the Dev Corner. The kindle periodically wakes up to update the clock image (not too often, to save battery). You can set it for 1 minute or 5 minute eink updates, I think...

P.S. It is usually not safe to say the something is impossible (or "wouldn't work"), because somebody will eventually (or already has) proven you wrong. It is much safer to say that you do not know how to do it. Speaking in "absolutes" is always risky. If you leave a sleeping 3G kindle sitting near amplified computer speakers, you may have noticed that it sometimes wakes up and "phones home", when you hear a burst of "cellphone noise" through the speakers, which proves that a kindle can be programmed to periodically wake up.

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