Kindle DX no longer syncs (esp. date/time)

thewoosh · 04-03-2021, 07:29 AM

Hi
I have been using a couple of DX2s for 10 years - the best device I ever owned. I bought one to read PDFs off-screen but as my eyes have deteriorated, I now use it (and it's more recently purchased backup) just for reading in general.

Recently, however, problems have emerged. I can no longer connect to 3G - probably because there is no longer any 3G here as we progress from 4G to 5G locally. I never really purchased much content from Amazon so I don't have a problem that I can no longer download books but I do have a problem with dates...

In the past I found I had to connect to the internet from time-to-time otherwise the device would lose track of time and no longer store my latest read at the top of the list when I viewed the list by date. Now that I can no longer do so, it never does.

Having several hundred documents on the Kindle and often reading several at once, this makes life complicated, as every time I return to the home screen I then have to hunt down the last thing I read in order to go back to it. It is majorly annoying!

Does anyone have any suggestions about a work-around for this or better explanations why it might be happening?

I have loved this technology for a decade and was expecting to do so for a decade more but now I am being forced to consider an alternative (like a Boox)...
I'd love to hear suggestions...

PS It's a jail-broke DX B008 running 3.2.1.

Quoth · 04-03-2021, 09:59 AM

Buy a fake 3G base / repeater and use it to set the clock? Such devices with an ethernet port exist. About $2000, so cheaper to sell the DX and by a new 7" or 8" eink, which is far better for PDFs and ebooks.

No other solution for a DX or DXG with 3G only and no local 3G.

It takes a day for the time and date to recover on my DXG if it goes flat. There might be some jail break. I only managed to change system fonts and sleep cover on mine. USB networking to set time and date failed.

thewoosh · 04-03-2021, 11:59 AM

Hmmm just wondering - looking at other stuff on here - could I install a terminal and run date to set date?
I don't need to log in remotely as DX has keyboard - so do I need USB networking? (I may have misunderstood)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quoth

...USB networking to set time and date failed.

eddie.t.h · 04-04-2021, 03:59 AM

Try this https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=95076

thewoosh · 04-05-2021, 06:00 AM

I meant to say Kindle DXG (not DX2)

04-03-2021, 07:29 AM	#1
thewoosh Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2021 Device: Kindle DX	Kindle DX no longer syncs (esp. date/time) Hi I have been using a couple of DX2s for 10 years - the best device I ever owned. I bought one to read PDFs off-screen but as my eyes have deteriorated, I now use it (and it's more recently purchased backup) just for reading in general. Recently, however, problems have emerged. I can no longer connect to 3G - probably because there is no longer any 3G here as we progress from 4G to 5G locally. I never really purchased much content from Amazon so I don't have a problem that I can no longer download books but I do have a problem with dates... In the past I found I had to connect to the internet from time-to-time otherwise the device would lose track of time and no longer store my latest read at the top of the list when I viewed the list by date. Now that I can no longer do so, it never does. Having several hundred documents on the Kindle and often reading several at once, this makes life complicated, as every time I return to the home screen I then have to hunt down the last thing I read in order to go back to it. It is majorly annoying! Does anyone have any suggestions about a work-around for this or better explanations why it might be happening? I have loved this technology for a decade and was expecting to do so for a decade more but now I am being forced to consider an alternative (like a Boox)... I'd love to hear suggestions... PS It's a jail-broke DX B008 running 3.2.1.

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04-03-2021, 09:59 AM	#2
Quoth Still reading Posts: 13,992 Karma: 105092227 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Buy a fake 3G base / repeater and use it to set the clock? Such devices with an ethernet port exist. About $2000, so cheaper to sell the DX and by a new 7" or 8" eink, which is far better for PDFs and ebooks. No other solution for a DX or DXG with 3G only and no local 3G. It takes a day for the time and date to recover on my DXG if it goes flat. There might be some jail break. I only managed to change system fonts and sleep cover on mine. USB networking to set time and date failed.

04-04-2021, 03:59 AM	#4
eddie.t.h Addict Posts: 201 Karma: 123456 Join Date: Jan 2018 Device: Too Much Kindle :-)	Try this https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=95076

04-05-2021, 06:00 AM	#5
thewoosh Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2021 Device: Kindle DX	I meant to say Kindle DXG (not DX2)

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