Downgrade from 5.14.1?

[Ridcully]

Originally Posted by haertig

Immediately after this initial firmware update and registration, I turning on airplane mode and have left it on. A few years back I was thinking that in order to protect myself in case I accidentally turned off airplane mode, I would go in and delete the WiFi login/password from the Kindle. So it wouldn't know where to connect if all of a sudden it found itself with WiFi turned on. You could also possibly leave airplane mode accidentally with some flavor of system reset I suppose (I don't know that for sure, but it's potentially possible).

But Amazon is sneaky. In order to get to the network configuration, you have to FIRST turn on WiFi! If WiFi is turned off, you cannot get to your network configuration (all the options are grayed out). Very sneaky Amazon, very sneaky!

So instead of nuking the potential network connection from the Kindle end, I nuked it from my router. One thing you CAN see on the Kindle - without having to turn on WiFi - is it's MAC address. So I simply blacklisted that MAC address in my router. So if the Kindle ever accidentally gets switched out of Airplane Mode and tries to connect to my WiFi - my router won't give it the time of day, even though the Kindle may know the login/password. The problem here is that if I ever factory reset my router, or even just replace it with a new one, I have to remember to blacklist the MAC address again.

Got one up on you here: in order to register and get collections, I connected it to my phone's mobile hotspot, where I set up a password different than the one I normally use, but still long and weird enough that surely nobody with the same phone model uses it

Originally Posted by rcentros

Why is not registering a bad idea if you side-load your books anyhow? As for "being stuck" I don't think the OP is planning on keeping the updated Kindle anyhow, and is now looking for a used one with the older firmware.

The lack of collections is the main problem. I suppose it's also better to have your name on it in case it gets stolen and the thief is dumb enough to turn off airplane mode, but the collections are the big issue for me.

I was going to upgrade my mom to a PW this year but after reading this and the covers/sideloading topic, all I can say is: goodbye Amazon & good riddance