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Old 06-11-2020, 11:14 PM   #316
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I just found my PW3 and charged it up - it had gone dead. I really need to use this more since I'm always in love with the screen and keep getting reminded of that when I switch it on. It looks like I do have 5.12.4 on it.

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Old 06-12-2020, 12:07 AM   #317
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I just found my PW3 and charged it up - it had gone dead. I really need to use this more since I'm always in love with the screen and keep getting reminded of that when I switch it on. It looks like I do have 5.12.4 on it.
Any problems with yours on 5.12.4?

I have a non-jailbroken PW3 that's not blocked from automatic updates. Seems to be behaving fine on 5.12.4. If there are issues, thus far, it hasn't seem to have affected my normal use.
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Any problems with yours on 5.12.4?

I have a non-jailbroken PW3 that's not blocked from automatic updates. Seems to be behaving fine on 5.12.4. If there are issues, thus far, it hasn't seem to have affected my normal use.
Nope! 5.12.4 is bug-free

Amazon tried to do a gradual rollout of the Aa menu change and it introduced a bug. This has since been fixed server-side.
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Old 06-12-2020, 04:51 AM   #319
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Nope! 5.12.4 is bug-free

There's no such thing, there are always bugs.


While I get as frustrated as you do with JSWolf and his inability to stop flogging a dead horse or stop spouting information as fact with no proof, we don't know that Amazon have EOL'd the PW3 or that 5.12.4 will be the last firmware update for it until they say so. For all we know the issue that was present in 5.12.4 that caused it to be pulled could still be present in 5.12.5 in which case Amazon are doing the right thing by NOT releasing it for the PW3. Nobody on this board unless they have been told by Amazon or work for their dev team "knows" it's all speculation.
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Old 06-12-2020, 04:57 AM   #320
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What we don't know yet is what they plan to do about it when they have the manpower to do something. But, of course, this has already been suggested a number of times. I'd like you to respond to it. Does that possibility, the pandemic, the change of priorities it's caused for the moment, change your point of view? If not, why not?

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Thing is, the Amazon staff that work on the firmware can do so from home. So I don't think it's a manpower issue. The other issue is why hasn't Amazon put out a statement regarding the PW3?

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Old 06-12-2020, 10:51 AM   #321
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why hasn't Amazon put out a statement regarding the PW3?
Because they never do on that sort of thing.
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Old 06-12-2020, 11:28 AM   #322
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Some who are running 5.12.4 have said there is a battery drain. I cannot say more as I don't have experience other then what I've read that 5.12.4 is a mess.
Sorry, but this is the first time I am hearing of this. Who said that? Or are you just making this up?
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Old 06-12-2020, 11:46 AM   #323
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Sorry, but this is the first time I am hearing of this. Who said that? Or are you just making this up?
Please just ignore jswolf

He keeps making stuff up.

"Amazon employees can work on the firmware from home"

Except they 100% can't
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Old 06-12-2020, 12:11 PM   #324
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Sorry, but this is the first time I am hearing of this. Who said that? Or are you just making this up?
JSWolf is very anti-Kindle so take his comments with a grain of salt. Amazon is far from perfect and bugs are inevitable but oftentimes, he tends to make issues seem worse or more widespread than they are.

There have been reports of higher battery drain but honestly, that's been the case for pretty much every firmware update. Seems like it might have been fixed already, too.

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I've also noticed a faster battery drain on my Oasis 3 in the last week or so (though I downloaded 5.12.4 when it first became available about a month or so ago, so this is more recent).
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Do you have excessive battery drain with 5.12.4?
No, seems the same. Or even less. Hard to say.
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Old 06-12-2020, 12:23 PM   #325
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Please just ignore jswolf

He keeps making stuff up.

"Amazon employees can work on the firmware from home"

Except they 100% can't

And you do too, you keep throwing around claims about this and kernel rewrite that, and never back it up with data either.
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Old 06-12-2020, 12:34 PM   #326
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There have been reports of higher battery drain but honestly, that's been the case for pretty much every firmware update. Seems like it might have been fixed already, too.
May have been fixed meaning 5.12.5 which the PW3 isn't getting.
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May have been fixed meaning 5.12.5 which the PW3 isn't getting.
You don't need to update the firmware to fix these bugs. That's the point.


The bug was related to the Aa menu rollout and cover sync issues.

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Old 06-12-2020, 01:07 PM   #328
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Seriously, enough already! Give it a rest. These redundant & trolling comments are adding exactly nothing of value to this thread.
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Any problems with yours on 5.12.4?

I have a non-jailbroken PW3 that's not blocked from automatic updates. Seems to be behaving fine on 5.12.4. If there are issues, thus far, it hasn't seem to have affected my normal use.
Truthfully I can't tell as I haven't been using this device. Because I haven't used it, haven't noticed issues. I messed with it some last night and it was doing fine. Smooth and not freezing and as always I fell in love with the screen all over again and told myself, yet again, I need to read on it more.
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