01-01-2011, 02:53 AM | #1 |
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Jailbroken and Custom ScreenSaver killed it!
I got a K3 for christmas and I LOVE IT. I Jailbrike it and installed custom screensavers from one of the members photobucket. (Awesome pictures BTW) About 3 days after that, it froze the top half of the screen as the screensaver dsiappears the top half of the screen gets stuck on the screensaver. I already got a replacement, but I am leery of jailbreaking and customizing now. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
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01-01-2011, 03:43 AM | #2 |
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01-01-2011, 11:24 AM | #3 | |
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01-01-2011, 11:38 AM | #4 |
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Did you by any chance take pictures of what your screen looked like? I'm really wondering if you had a broken screen which had nothing to do with the screensaver hack.
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01-01-2011, 12:12 PM | #5 |
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I've had the hack for screensaver installed for about 2 months and have not had any problems.
I did have the odd overlap of partial images that apparently is caused by not having the images sized 600x800. That caused about 1/3 of the image to be at the top and then repeated lower on the page. Or a prior image showing a small portion - all fixed when the images where the proper size. |
01-01-2011, 12:17 PM | #6 | |
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01-01-2011, 12:32 PM | #7 |
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I don't know whose program you used and I only have experience with the jailbreak and screensaver hack developed by MobileRead member NiLuJe, but I find it doubtful that either the jailbreak or use of the custom screensaver caused the problem. I am certainly not an expert, however, just going by personal experience and from what research I did before applying the jailbreak myself.
I have been using NiLuJe's program since October without it having caused any Kindle malfunctions. Many others have been using it - and the one's developed for the K2, etc. - for much longer than that and I have not read of other folks reporting subsequent problems with their Kindle caused by the jailbreak, screensaver or font hacks. As far as I can tell, the jailbreak and hacks are pretty benign and non-intrusive. Could some sort of file corruption cause this behavior?? I'm not knowledgeable enough to say. Like daffy4u, I'm thinking that it is more of a hardware based problem than one caused by software. It is good to hear that Amazon replaced your Kindle; that indicates to me that they don't seem to think it was a user-caused problem. Holly |
01-01-2011, 12:38 PM | #8 |
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I had one set of screen saver images where it would make half the screen a distorted image when i plugged in the USB. But i changed the screensaver and it worked again. I also had my Kindle get stuck on a blank screen but I just held the power switch over for about a minute and it reset. You might have tried that. So if it happens again you can try those solutions.
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01-01-2011, 01:32 PM | #9 |
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isnt there a print screen keyboard shortcut? I can post it as I have not sent the old one back yet. The Image from the screensaver stuck on about the top half of the screen when I woke it up, and it would never go away. I restarted using both the menu option and the holding power for 15 sec. Even restored to factory defaults. I hope this isnt something to do with the screensaver hack, because I hate looking at the factory ones now.
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01-01-2011, 01:45 PM | #10 |
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Hee are a couple of pics
This is what it looks like now
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01-01-2011, 01:54 PM | #11 |
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That looks like a hardware issue to me...
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01-01-2011, 01:56 PM | #12 |
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That looks more like a cracked screen to me. The screensaver is stuck on the broken parts as they are now disconnected and unable to be refreshed.
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01-01-2011, 02:25 PM | #13 |
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there was never any impact whatsoever. It was working fine, hibernating, then I woke it up and the upper part of the screen never changed from the screensaver image. So should I be safe jailbreakinig and doing custom screensavers again? I can take better pictures if you like, maybe a screenshot (shift alt r?)
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01-01-2011, 02:26 PM | #14 |
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01-01-2011, 02:29 PM | #15 |
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