newbie: PW2 with FW 5.6.5 experiencing some freezes - upgrade device? FW?

[tagtag]

Hi all,

Something of a newbie here. I have a PW2 Kindle that I have left in airplane mode for the better part of a decade. Great battery life FW is 5.6.5, which I think is quite old. Books loaded via USB via Calibre (from library, gutenberg, amazon, etc.) pretty much exclusively.

My kindle has been freezing up a bit more often and I'm wondering/hoping if a FW upgrade would help it.

So the question is would you recommend monkeying with the FW to see if that fixes my issues, or just look for a new gen PW on the next sale? If a firmware upgrade should I JB instead? Not entirely sure what that gets me, but I generally like to take that route when offered.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by tagtag

Hi all,

Something of a newbie here. I have a PW2 Kindle that I have left in airplane mode for the better part of a decade. Great battery life FW is 5.6.5, which I think is quite old. Books loaded via USB via Calibre (from library, gutenberg, amazon, etc.) pretty much exclusively.

My kindle has been freezing up a bit more often and I'm wondering/hoping if a FW upgrade would help it.

So the question is would you recommend monkeying with the FW to see if that fixes my issues, or just look for a new gen PW on the next sale? If a firmware upgrade should I JB instead? Not entirely sure what that gets me, but I generally like to take that route when offered.

I'd try a factory reset as the first step. If that doesn't help, upgrade the firmware. As to jailbreaking, no idea, as I've never jailbroken my Kindles.

[j.p.s]

If the current firmware has been working fine for almost 10 years I do not see how a firmware update will do anything about freezing.

A reset might clean up crud buildup. If that doesn't work, I suspect the emmc (flash memory) is getting worn out and a newer reader is in order.

I always recommend jailbreaking even as a just in case measure, but doing that would not address freezing.

[tagtag]

Thanks, got a plan. And yes, emmc death is the most logical. At least the new ones add waterproofing. So that's a bonus along w/ screen, proc, etc.

If I let the FW update doesn't seem like there's a lot of new/better functionality. I haven't needed anything from a jailbreak yet although playing with fonts is always nice.