You will then see a dialogue box or the screen of your Kindle device goes black. Press and hold the power button for a few seconds.Locate the power button at the bottom or back of the device.You can restart any of the Kindle models including Basic, Kids Edition, Paperwhite, or Oasis, in the same procedure below. Restarting your Amazon Kindle is one of the first and easiest things you need to do when you encounter a technical error with your eReader device. Steps to Restart your Paperwhite & Other Kindle eReaders Credit: Windows Dispatch If these technical issues prevent you from reading your favorite books, you can restart your Kindle device or if the issue is not fixed you have to perform a factory reset to fix it. You may see your Amazon Kindle not responding to you touch gestures. You can choose whatever books you like and carry them around with you at any time.īut, there are times when your Kindle device encounters problems like freezing and slow responses. A very simple (not that secure) way is to create a huge files filled with zeroes and delete it: dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/mounted/kindle/hugefile.datĪfter that the script does not list the previously installed books.Amazon Kindle eReaders open the door for you to browse and download thousands of ebooks on one device. There are several ways to wipe the empty space of the filesystem. It's not a perfect list but clearly shows that factory reset does not erase all the information. Mnt/us/documents/Zendegi-asin_B003NE5TVU-type_EBOK-v_0 Mnt/us/documents/A Clash of Kings A Song of Ice a-asin_B000FC1HBY-type_EBOK-v_0 It was very easy to create a script which lists most of the books previously installed on the device: $ strings afterfactoryreset.dat | grep -i '^mnt/us/documents' | rev | cut -d "." -f2- | rev | sort | uniq
mnt/us/documents/Zendegi-asin_B003NE5TVU-type_EBOK-v_0.mbpsr mnt/us/documents/Zendegi-asin_B003NE5TVU-type_EBOK-v_0.azwsq LAST_BOOK_READ=/mnt/us/documents/Zendegi-asin_B003NE5TVU-type_EBOK-v_0.azw mnt/us/documents/Zendegi-asin_B003NE5TVU-type_EBOK-v_0.azwt One of the books I've read on this device is Zendegi ( by Greg Egan ) so I've searched for the string zendegi which appears quite a few times: $ strings afterfactoryreset.dat | grep -i zendegi I've connected the Kindle to a Linux computer and copied all the information to a huge (3.2GB) file:ĭd if=/dev/sdc1 of=afterfactoryreset.dat bs=1M After deregistering the device and executing factory reset the Kindle looks empty.
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