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Old 05-02-2020, 10:05 AM   #91
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The Progressive Downloads feature that I first saw in the 5.12.4 firmware was enabled in 5.12.5. Now I am seeing reports on Reddit of Dark Mode surfacing on some devices.
I updated mine to 5.12.5 and I don't see this dark mode-toggle button.
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Old 05-02-2020, 11:30 AM   #92
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I updated mine to 5.12.5 and I don't see this dark mode-toggle button.
I don’t see it either. Only a couple people have reported having it.
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Old 05-02-2020, 01:12 PM   #93
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Old 05-03-2020, 07:34 AM   #94
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I seem to be having more battery drain on my 5.12.5 update now in fact. That said, as I'm at home nearly all the time and my Oasis hasn't been out of the house since 16 March, it doesn't really matter in practice.

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Sorted with a simple restart though.

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Old 05-04-2020, 03:30 AM   #95
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I seem to be having more battery drain on my 5.12.5 update now in fact. That said, as I'm at home nearly all the time and my Oasis hasn't been out of the house since 16 March, it doesn't really matter in practice.

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It seems also to me that battery drain is more or less as it was in 5.12.4, where I first noticed it. It goes down noticeably. I started a book and probably read about 150 pages and the charge went down from 90% to 30%. As some books were updated there may have been some backgroud indexing, but still it seems a bit high.
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Old 05-04-2020, 07:03 AM   #96
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It seems also to me that battery drain is more or less as it was in 5.12.4, where I first noticed it. It goes down noticeably. I started a book and probably read about 150 pages and the charge went down from 90% to 30%. As some books were updated there may have been some backgroud indexing, but still it seems a bit high.
Have you checked that the indexing actually finished? Sometimes stuck indexing can cause battery drain.
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Old 05-04-2020, 09:32 AM   #97
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It seems also to me that battery drain is more or less as it was in 5.12.4, where I first noticed it. It goes down noticeably. I started a book and probably read about 150 pages and the charge went down from 90% to 30%. As some books were updated there may have been some backgroud indexing, but still it seems a bit high.
What kindle are you using? My PW3's battery life couldn't be better.
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Old 05-04-2020, 11:55 AM   #98
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My PW3 battery life is good too. It's the much older one, as I swapped the new one to Wife. 5.12.4
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It seems on recent firmwares, somehow Kindles sometimes decide to drain the battery even while plugged in. A forced reboot sorts it out, though.
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What kindle are you using? My PW3's battery life couldn't be better.
I have an Oasis 2017, S/N G000 SA13, on the wiki it says Kindle Oasis 2 (2017) WIFI 32 Gb EU, which has All New Oasis (Kindle Oasis (9ª Generation), when I download the firmware.
I bought it for the 7" and the 32Gb, although I dislike the square format. But that is another story.
I hope I did not always download the wrong firmware. It was not available OTA and after a week I decided to download it from Amazon.

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Firmware updates are model-protected and cannot be installed into the wrong device.
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Old 05-09-2020, 01:58 PM   #103
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Wondering what happened with the more direct access to the dark mode switch: has it arrived at everyone's Kindle PW4/Oasis in the meantime?

I've kept my Oasis3 on stock FW all the time, hoping it'll become jailbreakable some day. However, beginning to lose hope in this regard, so now thinking of deleting the temp.bin.partial thingie and let Amazon have at it.

It's become a major annoyance to go through the menu/accessibility hazzle every time I wanna switch darkmode on or off.
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Wondering what happened with the more direct access to the dark mode switch: has it arrived at everyone's Kindle PW4/Oasis in the meantime?

I've kept my Oasis3 on stock FW all the time, hoping it'll become jailbreakable some day. However, beginning to lose hope in this regard, so now thinking of deleting the temp.bin.partial thingie and let Amazon have at it.

It's become a major annoyance to go through the menu/accessibility hazzle every time I wanna switch darkmode on or off.
I don't think there is evidence that such direct access is in the offing .
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I don't think there is evidence that such direct access is in the offing .
Oh nooo so the screenshots out there are fake then? A Reddit hoax? They did look to good to be true indeed...
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