Kindle 2 heralds return to crashes - Page 2

catsittingstill · 03-18-2009, 03:37 PM

My Kindle 2 has an odd quirk; when I push the menu button to get to the menu, often the menu will appear, flash once or twice, and disappear again before I can pick a choice. Those times when I've had sufficient presence of mind to try to use the joystick while the menu was flashing, it didn't appear to move the selection on the menu before the menu disappeared. Does anybody know what may be causing this? I thought for a while it had to do with whether the cursor was visible on the page before I triggered the menu, but then I had it happen both ways, and now I don't know what's going on anymore. So far I have managed to get around it by just pressing the menu button over and over until the menu stayed, but it's a bit of a nuisance.

pilotbob · 03-18-2009, 03:39 PM

Did you take the protective covering off the joystick so it isn't being pressed when you only mean to jog it?

BOb

catsittingstill · 03-18-2009, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by pilotbob

Did you take the protective covering off the joystick so it isn't being pressed when you only mean to jog it?

BOb

Um. The Kindle came with a sort of sticky plastic sheet that covered the entire face of it, screen, keyboard, joystick and all. I took that off first thing. There doesn't seem to be anything special over the joystick itself, that I can see.

Plus I'm reaching the menu by pushing the menu button, rather than the joystick. The menu sometimes flashing and disappearing seems to happen even when I don't try to use the joystick to pick anything--so even when I'm not touching the joystick at all.

I'm beginning to wonder if some part of the internal workings of the menu button is "sticky"--acting as if the menu button is being held down when it's not.

If nobody else is seeing this phenomenon, maybe it's time for me to call Kindle support... (sigh) I purely hate the thought of having to give up my lovely Kindle, though.

badgoodDeb · 03-19-2009, 02:39 PM

That doesn't seem normal. If you are sure you aren't double-bouncing the menu key, I say call them. They will usually send you a new Kindle *before* asking for the existing one back. You send it back in the package the new one ships in.

cailloux · 03-28-2009, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

When you first put the books on, it has to index them, so you can do "search" on all sorts of weird words.

I can understand the rapidly draining battery as the Kindle performs its initial index. However, I saw a second (and more concerning issue) after adding ~50 .mobi-formatted eBooks to my Kindle 2. The unit seemed to either lock up (no response to any button presses) or restart frequently after I copied these files over (say 3-5 times in a 6 hour period). They were converted to mobi from HTML and LIT-format books via Calibre. After about 24 hours of this, I reset the unit to defaults and haven't copied these converted units back to the Kindle. All seems to behave normal right now. Have you see, or would you consider, this to be the "normal" behavior?

sirbruce · 03-28-2009, 04:23 PM

I've had some lockups when trying to do searches or use the web while it's indexing lots of books. But restarting works fine and the Kindle picks up where it left off. More recently, I found it crashes a *lot* when it's indexing and it gets low on space (< 50MB) and you try to do a search or enable text-to-speech. So now I'm trying to keep about 100MB free at all times.

But loading 50 MOBI books on? You should be fine with that; go ahead and do it and just let the Kindle finish indexing them (it indexes a typical book between 15 seconds and 2 minutes).

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03-18-2009, 03:37 PM	#16
catsittingstill Guru Posts: 643 Karma: 551634 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Kindle 1.0.8, iPod Touch, Kindle Keyboard	My Kindle 2 has an odd quirk; when I push the menu button to get to the menu, often the menu will appear, flash once or twice, and disappear again before I can pick a choice. Those times when I've had sufficient presence of mind to try to use the joystick while the menu was flashing, it didn't appear to move the selection on the menu before the menu disappeared. Does anybody know what may be causing this? I thought for a while it had to do with whether the cursor was visible on the page before I triggered the menu, but then I had it happen both ways, and now I don't know what's going on anymore. So far I have managed to get around it by just pressing the menu button over and over until the menu stayed, but it's a bit of a nuisance.

03-18-2009, 03:39 PM	#17
pilotbob Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,832 Karma: 11844413 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tampa, FL USA Device: Kindle Touch	Did you take the protective covering off the joystick so it isn't being pressed when you only mean to jog it? BOb

03-19-2009, 02:39 PM	#19
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,550 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	That doesn't seem normal. If you are sure you aren't double-bouncing the menu key, I say call them. They will usually send you a new Kindle before asking for the existing one back. You send it back in the package the new one ships in.

03-28-2009, 04:23 PM	#21
sirbruce Provocateur Posts: 1,859 Karma: 505847 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Columbus, OH Device: Kindle Touch, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, iPhone 3GS	I've had some lockups when trying to do searches or use the web while it's indexing lots of books. But restarting works fine and the Kindle picks up where it left off. More recently, I found it crashes a lot when it's indexing and it gets low on space (< 50MB) and you try to do a search or enable text-to-speech. So now I'm trying to keep about 100MB free at all times. But loading 50 MOBI books on? You should be fine with that; go ahead and do it and just let the Kindle finish indexing them (it indexes a typical book between 15 seconds and 2 minutes).

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