kidle3 states (on, off, sleeping etc)

[FF2]

Either here or Kindleboards had a thread about "recovering" that initial shipping screen. Someone did post a picture of it. I guess they wanted to check out the device and make sure it was working but then restore it to BRAND NEW with that screen. No way to recover it I gather.

Here's a link to the other site if such reference is permitted:

http://www.kindleboards.com/index.ph...c,41214.0.html

[daffy4u]

Here's a Kindle 3 unboxing video from YouTube which you show how the Kindle arrives.

[Tiersten]

Originally Posted by artig

But I have no way of knowing whether it was in sleep mode or in off mode. I suspect it was switched off.

Yeah. Its completely switched off when it is shipped so it doesn't drain the battery. You see the Kindle tree + boot progress bar when you first slide the power switch.

[Piper_]

Originally Posted by foghat

To turn completely off, you need to hold the power switch for x number of seconds (can't remember how many exactly, 5 or so seconds?). to turn back on, you guessed it, flick the power switch. I have never timed it, but probably takes about a minute to fully boot.

"Off" for a K3 is actually almost, if not completely, indistinguishable from screensaver mode.

Turning it "on" from the "off" state does not require a boot-up.

I've tried explaining it before, but it's difficult; the best way to understand is to just try it:

Hold the switch to the right for about 7 seconds, as it says in the manual. The screen goes blank, and the Kindle is "off."

Now, slide the switch again, just like waking it from sleep, and count the seconds. (Mine takes only about 1 full second.) It returns to the same screen you left it on.

It's not anything like starting it up from a restart or reset.

So, for the K3, at least, the "off" state is not really like a computer's "off" state, but more like another hibernate or sleep, but without the screensaver, and I expect the wireless turns off, even if you left it on.


(The only reason I like the ability to do this is that it allows me to disable the auto-sleep/screensaver functions and have it turn on/off only when I want to.)

[charonme]

btw is the sleep mode activated automatically after X minutes? For example if I'm reading a single page for X minutes without pressing any buttons, does it suddenly go to a screen"saver" ?

[NiLuJe]

By default, 600 seconds without user input => screensaver. And 60 seconds after that => suspend. A short flick of the switch toggles between on and screensaver.
~7s is a full shutdown (or not, you shouldn't ever need to switch it off anyway, unless you intend to let it sit unused for a large (ie. months) period of time), ~15s is a hard reboot (battery disconnect, which explains why your Kindle must be unplugged for this to do anything).

[foghat]

Originally Posted by Piper_

Turning it "on" from the "off" state does not require a boot-up.

thanks for the info. Not sure that I've ever shut mine off. Just have rebooted, which I assumed would be required after shutting off.