05-23-2016, 03:45 PM | #1 |
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Another indexing issue
Recently, I put about 25 ebooks on my Paperwhite 2, many of them failed to index after about 24 hours. I had to delete approx 18 of the books. I'm now slowly reloading them one by one, but each is failing to index.
Does anyone know why this could be happening? I'm keeping the PW on charge while it tries to index. Thanks. |
05-23-2016, 05:39 PM | #2 |
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Have you restarted the Kindle? That usually solves all my indexing issues, no need to delete/re-add books.
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05-23-2016, 07:02 PM | #3 |
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I've tried restarting. It's still stuck.
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05-23-2016, 07:28 PM | #4 |
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It just took Jane Eyre (from the MR library) about three hours to index. This can't be normal behaviour. I have 157 books on my PW2, so it's not at full capacity.
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05-23-2016, 07:55 PM | #5 |
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I'd do a Factory Reset and then try to reload them in batches.
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05-24-2016, 05:44 AM | #6 |
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If it *is* making progress, give it time, since it's clearly not stuck. It might well be doing something else in the background that's contending with the indexer or something.
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05-24-2016, 06:36 AM | #7 |
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Normally its something like a poorly formatted book but if lots of them are causing problems, including one from the MR library, I'd be inclined to go with pidgeon92's suggestion of doing a factory reset. Remove the 25 books you recently tried to add, back-up the rest of the books currently on your Kindle, factory reset and then add them all back again in batches.
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05-24-2016, 07:33 AM | #8 | |
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05-24-2016, 10:12 AM | #9 | |
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I recommend adding 10 books at a time and wait for them to finish before adding more. Last edited by JazzyJeff; 05-24-2016 at 10:15 AM. |
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05-24-2016, 01:00 PM | #10 |
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For some kind of limit case, It took my Oasis most of a week to index the complete works of Dickens, a Project Gutenberg monster 20MiB MOBI (highest location: 293,710; ~20,000 pages; that location count would suggest on the order of 35MiB of pure uncompressed character data).
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05-24-2016, 01:57 PM | #11 |
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I'm confused. What is a factory reset? I assume it's not just a long button press.
My PW isn't jailbroken because I'm not technical enough to do that. Jane Eyre was 1.52mb, so a fairly hefty tome. Sorry to be such an ignoramus. |
05-24-2016, 02:57 PM | #12 |
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A factory reset is exactly what it sounds like: a reset to the state the device was in when it came out of the factory. It's on the "Settings" menu.
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05-25-2016, 02:06 AM | #13 |
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I just did a factory reset on my K3. It was having the same behavior. It had less than 10 books on it and refused to index any new books even novellas. The factory reset fixed it. I'm thinking the indexing problem also caused some battery issues.
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