What the heck? Pw2 updated itself by itself.

Barty · 02-25-2014, 03:50 PM

Put down my pw2 for a few minutes and it was rebooting when I came back. I thought hmm why is it rebooting. Then saw message your kindle is updating, do not turn off. What the heck?

The weird thing is I had connected to wifi but very briefly, almost certainly not enough time to download a 100M+ file.

I had to spend an hour putting back all my hacks and patches. If it'd been on vacation without access to my PC, I would have been royally p.o'ed.

Really, there's no real reason for amazon to update my kindle like this without asking me. Not like it's an always connected device with dangerous security exposure.

I installed the backdoorlock hack. Hopefully, that'll put an end to this.

susan_cassidy · 02-25-2014, 05:56 PM

Kindles have always updated automatically.

nynaevelan · 02-25-2014, 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barty

Put down my pw2 for a few minutes and it was rebooting when I came back. I thought hmm why is it rebooting. Then saw message your kindle is updating, do not turn off. What the heck?

The weird thing is I had connected to wifi but very briefly, almost certainly not enough time to download a 100M+ file.

I had to spend an hour putting back all my hacks and patches. If it'd been on vacation without access to my PC, I would have been royally p.o'ed.

Really, there's no real reason for amazon to update my kindle like this without asking me. Not like it's an always connected device with dangerous security exposure.

I installed the backdoorlock hack. Hopefully, that'll put an end to this.

Is this a new update, or you have never updated to 5.4.2.1??

Barty · 02-25-2014, 07:05 PM

I was on 5.4.2

dsmid · 02-26-2014, 01:41 AM

Welcome to the world of Amazon.
ALL YOUR DEVICE ARE BELONG TO US.

HarryT · 02-26-2014, 04:16 AM

It's probably been slowly downloading for a long time. But this is entirely normal for Kindles. Update has always been automatic.

jbcohen · 02-26-2014, 07:36 AM

Thats really quite common, my windows 7 and 8 PCs do that and my Mc Affee Anti-Virus does that as well.

dsmid · 02-26-2014, 08:24 AM

Interesting.
However decent software always asks for permission before updating itself. My OS does.

Shopaholic · 02-26-2014, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dsmid

Interesting.
However decent software always asks for permission before updating itself. My OS does.

Unless you have your PC set to automatically update.

kacir · 02-26-2014, 11:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shopaholic

Unless you have your PC set to automatically update.

The thing is, it is impossible to prevent Kindle from updating itself, unless you hack it or make sure there is no enough space on the device.
And sometimes you know in advance that an update will bring an unwanted feature (such as patching a hole you want to use for jailbreaking)

An OS might be set to update itself by default, but you can usually override this somehow. With Kindle you can only hopelessly watch as it does what it wants.

jbcohen · 02-28-2014, 07:28 AM

There are settings in Windows to make the OS ask before updating, I do not think that the paperwhites have this option. Personally I like this ability to get house keeping operations done without my intervention and only get me involved when there is something wrong.

02-25-2014, 03:50 PM	#1
Barty doofus Posts: 2,549 Karma: 13089041 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Voyage	What the heck? Pw2 updated itself by itself. Put down my pw2 for a few minutes and it was rebooting when I came back. I thought hmm why is it rebooting. Then saw message your kindle is updating, do not turn off. What the heck? The weird thing is I had connected to wifi but very briefly, almost certainly not enough time to download a 100M+ file. I had to spend an hour putting back all my hacks and patches. If it'd been on vacation without access to my PC, I would have been royally p.o'ed. Really, there's no real reason for amazon to update my kindle like this without asking me. Not like it's an always connected device with dangerous security exposure. I installed the backdoorlock hack. Hopefully, that'll put an end to this.

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02-25-2014, 05:56 PM	#2
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	Kindles have always updated automatically.

02-25-2014, 07:05 PM	#4
Barty doofus Posts: 2,549 Karma: 13089041 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Voyage	I was on 5.4.2

02-26-2014, 01:41 AM	#5
dsmid Linux devotee Posts: 598 Karma: 2069047 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle 3, Kindle 4B, Kindle PW2	Welcome to the world of Amazon. ALL YOUR DEVICE ARE BELONG TO US.

02-26-2014, 04:16 AM	#6
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	It's probably been slowly downloading for a long time. But this is entirely normal for Kindles. Update has always been automatic.

02-26-2014, 07:36 AM	#7
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	Thats really quite common, my windows 7 and 8 PCs do that and my Mc Affee Anti-Virus does that as well.

02-26-2014, 08:24 AM	#8
dsmid Linux devotee Posts: 598 Karma: 2069047 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle 3, Kindle 4B, Kindle PW2	Interesting. However decent software always asks for permission before updating itself. My OS does.

02-28-2014, 07:28 AM	#11
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	There are settings in Windows to make the OS ask before updating, I do not think that the paperwhites have this option. Personally I like this ability to get house keeping operations done without my intervention and only get me involved when there is something wrong.

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