Final week I posted about how Amazon modified the studying progress indicator on Kindles with the final software program replace, and a few persons are having issues seeing it now as a result of it’s so small, and there are experiences of a lot of different extra detrimental points attributable to the replace as properly.
The issues don’t appear to be affecting all Kindles, however some persons are reporting points with extreme battery drain after the replace. Some folks say their Kindle’s battery goes down considerably even when not utilizing their Kindle.
Different persons are reporting points with extreme lagginess and freezing, the place their Kindle is de facto sluggish to answer enter at instances, and a few Kindles are crashing and should be restarted a number of instances.
There are experiences of issues associated to utilizing customized fonts as properly, the place the Kindle simply retains defaulting to Bookerly as an alternative of the font chosen. My Kindles have been doing one thing comparable for years now, however this sounds prefer it could be a brand new downside the place it received’t work even after choosing the proper font a second time.
Some persons are saying the studying progress indicator isn’t exhibiting up anymore on books that it used to work with, and there are experiences of the Kindle Limitless filter disappearing within the library.
In the event you’re experiencing points together with your Kindle for the reason that final 5.16.10.0.1 replace, you would possibly attempt restarting it to see if that helps with lagginess or battery drain points, however many of the issues are most likely going to require one other replace to get fastened.
I feel a part of the issue is identical folks aren’t engaged on Kindle software program that used to work on it, and the brand new folks most likely have their very own method of doing issues and don’t agree with every part the earlier software program builders did. That’s simply hypothesis after all, however it definitely stands to purpose the identical folks haven’t been engaged on Kindle software program for the previous 15+ years, particularly after they began drastically altering the person interface a couple of years in the past.
In case your Kindle nonetheless hasn’t mechanically up to date itself to the newest 5.16.10.0.1 software program you would possibly wish to activate airplane mode to maintain your Kindle from updating till Amazon releases a repair.
However then once more, that could be a nasty thought in the event you sideload ebooks due to a long-standing bug that deletes sideloaded content material when utilizing airplane mode for an prolonged period of time. That’s been occurring randomly for years now and so they nonetheless haven’t fastened it so who is aware of how lengthy it would take them to repair these new issues…
