04-03-2021, 07:29 AM | #1 |
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Kindle DX no longer syncs (esp. date/time)
Hi
I have been using a couple of DX2s for 10 years - the best device I ever owned. I bought one to read PDFs off-screen but as my eyes have deteriorated, I now use it (and it's more recently purchased backup) just for reading in general. Recently, however, problems have emerged. I can no longer connect to 3G - probably because there is no longer any 3G here as we progress from 4G to 5G locally. I never really purchased much content from Amazon so I don't have a problem that I can no longer download books but I do have a problem with dates... In the past I found I had to connect to the internet from time-to-time otherwise the device would lose track of time and no longer store my latest read at the top of the list when I viewed the list by date. Now that I can no longer do so, it never does. Having several hundred documents on the Kindle and often reading several at once, this makes life complicated, as every time I return to the home screen I then have to hunt down the last thing I read in order to go back to it. It is majorly annoying! Does anyone have any suggestions about a work-around for this or better explanations why it might be happening? I have loved this technology for a decade and was expecting to do so for a decade more but now I am being forced to consider an alternative (like a Boox)... I'd love to hear suggestions... PS It's a jail-broke DX B008 running 3.2.1. |
04-03-2021, 09:59 AM | #2 |
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Buy a fake 3G base / repeater and use it to set the clock? Such devices with an ethernet port exist. About $2000, so cheaper to sell the DX and by a new 7" or 8" eink, which is far better for PDFs and ebooks.
No other solution for a DX or DXG with 3G only and no local 3G. It takes a day for the time and date to recover on my DXG if it goes flat. There might be some jail break. I only managed to change system fonts and sleep cover on mine. USB networking to set time and date failed. |
04-03-2021, 11:59 AM | #3 |
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04-04-2021, 03:59 AM | #4 |
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04-05-2021, 06:00 AM | #5 |
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I meant to say Kindle DXG (not DX2)
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