Kindle firmware update 5.13.4

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by tomsem

I am only seeing it on my iPhone (after force-close following update). So far not on either of my iPads, even after force-close. Perhaps will have to wait for yet another update for iPad?

I have it on my iPad, but it took longer to show up there.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by jhowell

I have it on my iPad, but it took longer to show up there.

Same, it is there now.

[93terp]

Originally Posted by Paperbackstash

Did anyone ever get the expanded homepage that was supposed to roll out with the update? I still have not, and it's been quite awhile. Mine is still the same.

It's not showing up on any of my Kindle Voyages (3) nor my Kindle PW latest generation (1), and all were updated to 5.13.4 last month.

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by tomsem

I have always had this disabled, so I would not know how or if it had changed. But it’s odd that it is explicitly mentioned in What’s New and still hasn’t shown up, whereas Series Grouping is not explicitly mentioned and has.

I know, I was thinking about this the other day. Update, you don't get the new features, but you get surprise ones you didn't know were coming.

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by 93terp

It's not showing up on any of my Kindle Voyages (3) nor my Kindle PW latest generation (1), and all were updated to 5.13.4 last month.

It's been well over a month for me too. The posts above report it's coming through on tablets or apps, which I haven't paid attention to since I was going to use on the Oasis and Paperwhites. Maybe the update is mainly geared toward the Kindle app, who knows.

[JSWolf]

I think it's disgraceful for Amazon to add new features and make you wait for them to be activated. Just let new features work without playing this waiting game.

[Paperbackstash]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I think it's disgraceful for Amazon to add new features and make you wait for them to be activated. Just let new features work without playing this waiting game.

It is annoying. I was hoping it was a one time thing with a previous update, but it seems to be the norm now.

[John F]

Originally Posted by tomsem

‘Keep it simple’ is a relatively new concept, made necessary by the proliferation of ‘more is better’.

That said, Extended Home Feed will be awesome! I’ve been waiting years for this feature!

I guess it depends on how you define relatively new.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

[DNSB]

I'm tempted to do a poll as to how many people have seen the new series items on the Home & Library view. One co-worker has not seen anything there other than Home Screen View. He's changed that between on and off, done multiple restarts and other—often weird—suggestions he found on the Internet and nada. I suggested that perhaps Amazon.ca has not enabled the feature yet so he called Amazon support and got the chat version of a blank stare which wasn't very useful.

[rantanplan]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I think it's disgraceful for Amazon to add new features and make you wait for them to be activated. Just let new features work without playing this waiting game.

No, it's not disgraceful. It's perfectly reasonable to roll out new features to a limited number of users only. It something is broken, only a limited number of users is affected. If nothing is wrong, roll-out can be accelerated. A perfectly valid method for software delivery for a product that has millions of users world wide.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

No, it's not disgraceful. It's perfectly reasonable to roll out new features to a limited number of users only. It something is broken, only a limited number of users is affected. If nothing is wrong, roll-out can be accelerated. A perfectly valid method for software delivery for a product that has millions of users world wide.

Kobo does a staggered rollout (unless you download and side load the firmware like you can with Amazon) of new firmware. So new features are not given to everyone at one time. But when you get the new firmware you get any new features. You don't need to wait for new features to be activated.

With Kindles, do you have to have WiFi on to get the new features activated?

Yes, it is disgraceful. There's no need to keep new features turned off.

[LakesideMiners]

Originally Posted by jhowell

I have it on my iPad, but it took longer to show up there.

Question, I saw in the thread that you were looking at some of the stuff inside the firmware. did you get that by decompiling it? if so, how did you do that?

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by LakesideMiners

Question, I saw in the thread that you were looking at some of the stuff inside the firmware. did you get that by decompiling it? if so, how did you do that?

Kindletool allows access to the contents of Kindle firmware as a disk image. Most of the interesting stuff is written in Java and can be decompiled with tools such as Procyon.

[LakesideMiners]

Originally Posted by jhowell

Kindletool allows access to the contents of Kindle firmware as a disk image. Most of the interesting stuff is written in Java and can be decompiled with tools such as Procyon.

Thank you!

[Paperbackstash]

My extended home feed menu has now shown up