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hawhill · 10-20-2011, 01:39 PM

I think the Kindle firmware version 2 is more aggressively dropping TCP connections. I had the very same problem with the kindlevncviewer tool (non-Kindlet), so I made it using an endless loop of reconnection tries, and so in the best case the user won't notice. However, connections are dropped a lot. I think Amazon did this to prevent long-time TCP connections which would eat battery by preventing proper sleep modes. Some TCP ports are excluded from this cancellation, so that's why - say - via an USB network connection SSH works uninterrupted.

Maybe OP can adopt such a mechanism for his variant of VNC viewer.

10-20-2011, 01:39 PM	#19
hawhill Wizard Posts: 1,379 Karma: 2155307 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Goettingen, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Mini	I think the Kindle firmware version 2 is more aggressively dropping TCP connections. I had the very same problem with the kindlevncviewer tool (non-Kindlet), so I made it using an endless loop of reconnection tries, and so in the best case the user won't notice. However, connections are dropped a lot. I think Amazon did this to prevent long-time TCP connections which would eat battery by preventing proper sleep modes. Some TCP ports are excluded from this cancellation, so that's why - say - via an USB network connection SSH works uninterrupted. Maybe OP can adopt such a mechanism for his variant of VNC viewer.