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Old 05-04-2012, 01:43 AM   #16
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I have gray covers on AMAZON books, so I'm thinking no.
Really?? The cover problem on pdocs is a common gripe but I did not realize Amazon books are a problem -- they are fine on my Fire. One other odd cover-related problem started after the 6.3.0 update with one of my periodical subscriptions. When a new issue is available, and downloads automatically, the cover appears normally under "newsstand" but the dreaded gray cover displays on the carousel. Then something really strange occurs. 48 hours after the new issue appears, with no intervention from me, the cover suddenly appears normally on the carousel and all is well. A very strange bug indeed. This has occurred for the last two issues following the 6.3.0 update. It will be interesting to see if the problem continues.
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Nope not fixed. Looks like they made it worse. When you clear Kindle Data the books on your carousel disappear and your get blank grey covers now. The grey covers are worse than before. Syncing isn't working correctly with the covers it seems. Even the Kindle Fire manual is now a grey cover.

Took 5 Clear Data tries but got the cover fixed but there is a significant delay on carousel cover creation when the carousel is acting up. A reboot seems to fix it and then remove the grey covers and Clear data again.
Seems to work for me. As soon as I download a Pdoc the cover showed up. Clearing the kindle data causes more problems.
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Old 05-04-2012, 08:36 AM   #18
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Went to use my fire this morning and my Parental Controls are on which I did not have before. It now wants a pin number that I have never created to unlock them or reset to factory defaults. Will have to contact CS to see what happened. Going to be very angry if I have to reload all my stuff.
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Old 05-04-2012, 09:28 AM   #19
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Really?? The cover problem on pdocs is a common gripe but I did not realize Amazon books are a problem -- they are fine on my Fire. One other odd cover-related problem started after the 6.3.0 update with one of my periodical subscriptions. When a new issue is available, and downloads automatically, the cover appears normally under "newsstand" but the dreaded gray cover displays on the carousel. Then something really strange occurs. 48 hours after the new issue appears, with no intervention from me, the cover suddenly appears normally on the carousel and all is well. A very strange bug indeed. This has occurred for the last two issues following the 6.3.0 update. It will be interesting to see if the problem continues.
It did occur after 6.3. I only have Amazon books and have just never tried one of the alternative sites. I don't have Calibre or any of that other stuff. I have no idea what a pdoc is. I was a little surprised to see the gray covers. At first I thought it was just books in the cloud but then I downloaded one and it stayed that way. It seems I have fewer of them since the update yesterday but I never counted them so I don know......
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It's not like Amazon is going to say it fixes the bugs from the last update.
Why not? Everyone else will mention if an update fixes a bug.
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Old 05-04-2012, 11:12 AM   #21
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Is it just me or is the silk browser really quick now?
I remember thinking it wasn't so special when I first used it.
Now, every site I go to seems to load like it was previously cached, which is what I expected to happen all along.
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Old 05-04-2012, 01:22 PM   #22
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Very welcome improvement to parental controls. Thank you Amazon for listening to us.
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Old 05-04-2012, 02:31 PM   #23
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Seems to work for me. As soon as I download a Pdoc the cover showed up. Clearing the kindle data causes more problems.
Not working here so little choice in Clearing the Data. I get grey covers and the white ones if I don't on the carousel. The grey covers are on Amazon books and pdocs.
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It did occur after 6.3. I only have Amazon books and have just never tried one of the alternative sites. I don't have Calibre or any of that other stuff. I have no idea what a pdoc is. I was a little surprised to see the gray covers. At first I thought it was just books in the cloud but then I downloaded one and it stayed that way. It seems I have fewer of them since the update yesterday but I never counted them so I don know......
I have two white covers on Amazon books this time (out of 200 or so books). I know there were more prior to the update, I'll go with maybe 6-8. I don't really care about 2 or even 8 white covers. I'm sure if I had 2000 books and a whole bunch were "alternative" books with messed up covers, I'd care. But I am curious as to why it happens.
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Old 05-04-2012, 05:08 PM   #26
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Really?? The cover problem on pdocs is a common gripe but I did not realize Amazon books are a problem -- they are fine on my Fire. One other odd cover-related problem started after the 6.3.0 update with one of my periodical subscriptions. When a new issue is available, and downloads automatically, the cover appears normally under "newsstand" but the dreaded gray cover displays on the carousel. Then something really strange occurs. 48 hours after the new issue appears, with no intervention from me, the cover suddenly appears normally on the carousel and all is well. A very strange bug indeed. This has occurred for the last two issues following the 6.3.0 update. It will be interesting to see if the problem continues.
That happens with mine, too! I thought I was going crazy! I had a huge problem with covers (as well as files not opening properly on the KF that opened & read perfectly normal on my KB) all the way up to last night. Then, today *poof*, everything is back to normal, WITH NO ACTION FROM ME! This is crazy! A file I read yesterday morning wouldn't open last night and had a grey cover. THE SAME FILE (untouched since my last futile attempt to open last night) displayed and read correctly this afternoon!

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I have two white covers on Amazon books this time (out of 200 or so books). I know there were more prior to the update, I'll go with maybe 6-8. I don't really care about 2 or even 8 white covers. I'm sure if I had 2000 books and a whole bunch were "alternative" books with messed up covers, I'd care. But I am curious as to why it happens.
Ditto. Since I'm one of those that has close to 2,000 books, I need to know what has caused this problem and how to correct it in the future.
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That happens with mine, too! I thought I was going crazy! I had a huge problem with covers (as well as files not opening properly on the KF that opened & read perfectly normal on my KB) all the way up to last night. Then, today *poof*, everything is back to normal, WITH NO ACTION FROM ME! This is crazy! A file I read yesterday morning wouldn't open last night and had a grey cover. THE SAME FILE (untouched since my last futile attempt to open last night) displayed and read correctly this afternoon!



Ditto. Since I'm one of those that has close to 2,000 books, I need to know what has caused this problem and how to correct it in the future.
I've no clue but when I sync last night after the update. All my carousel covers went gray. I had to clear the Kindle Data a few times to get them back.
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I had one Amazon eBook come up with a white cover showing in the Carousel in the firmware upgrade. I just deleted it from the Carousel.

If I do a shut down, some covers in the Carousel turn white. Again, just deleting them from the Carousel corrects the problem.
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I've no clue but when I sync last night after the update. All my carousel covers went gray. I had to clear the Kindle Data a few times to get them back.
Weird! You lost your covers and I got mine back!

UPDATE: Back to the "sometimes it opens and sometimes it doesn't" status on some books. The plus side is I still have all the covers!
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I had one Amazon eBook come up with a white cover showing in the Carousel in the firmware upgrade. I just deleted it from the Carousel.

If I do a shut down, some covers in the Carousel turn white. Again, just deleting them from the Carousel corrects the problem.
I have 1 on the carousel and 1 in the cloud. Shutting down does nothing for me.
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