10-23-2024, 12:08 AM | #61 |
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Does anyone know the cutoff for how long the Kindle can be in airplane mode before this happens?
I was on airplane mode for like 3 weeks and when I disabled it to try to get the firmware update it just nuked all my books. |
10-23-2024, 12:36 AM | #62 |
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10-23-2024, 08:19 AM | #63 |
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You can download and "sideload" kindle firmware, but only later versions
Official link https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...MQC26VQQMM8XSW |
10-23-2024, 05:00 PM | #64 |
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My kindle has been in airplane mode for years. When I want firmware updates, I sideload them.
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10-23-2024, 10:26 PM | #65 |
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From experience, it seems to be somewhere between 1 and 2 weeks. As long as I go online once a week or so, my side-loaded content stays on the device.
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10-23-2024, 10:37 PM | #66 |
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On a different thread, the suggestion was that the purge happens when the time on the device differs too much from the time on the Cloud server. That difference, which result from the inaccuracy of the on-board clock, differs from device to device.
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10-24-2024, 12:47 AM | #67 |
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I checked that theory out and even when I deliberately set the time incorrectly on my PW4, enabled airplane mode and then set it aside for a couple of weeks, it did not wipe the files when I woke it and turned airplane mode off. When I had the time set properly and left it for 4 or 5 weeks (I actually forgot about it since it's mostly used when formatting ebooks for others). When I woke it and turned off airplane mode, most of my sideloaded books disappeared.
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10-26-2024, 08:46 AM | #68 |
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My Kindle Paperwhite is online as long as I can remember (because of Kindle Unlimited) and no sideloaded books were ever deleted.
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10-26-2024, 10:01 AM | #69 |
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10-26-2024, 10:06 AM | #70 |
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