So last morning, I woke up to find my Kindle showing a static screen that said that a software update it had tried to install had not been successful. The on-screen instructions asked me to press the power button to restart it.
However, pressing the power button didn't work. I looked at the Kindle support website, and pressed it for 7 seconds as recommended, which didn't work either. Then I tried the 'reset' method by press-and-holding it for the full 40 seconds. The screen flashed, and I saw the boot screen with the tree and the boy. But the progress bar that shows the OS is loading didn't appear. It just shows that static OS screen (without any progress bar) with the backlight on, and stays there forever.
I made sure I charged the device for the full 20 hours as recommended in the forums here. I tried resetting it with the power cable plugged in, as well as unplugged. Nothing makes a difference. Resetting just causes the screen to flash and the static boot screen to come back on.
When I plug it into my PC, I do not see the USB drive option. I have also checked in the Device Manager that it wasn't a corrupted or partial install. Bottom line, my Kindle is non-functional, and not recognized by my computer (tried with different computers), so I can't even try any of the steps recommended by the other threads in this forum, and various other places online. I am at my wit's end.
What's most annoying is that the device bricked itself - trying to do a software update that I didn't ask it to do. I don't even know what I could have done to prevent this from happening!
Can anyone help me? :help:
Many thanks in advance! :thanks:
However, pressing the power button didn't work. I looked at the Kindle support website, and pressed it for 7 seconds as recommended, which didn't work either. Then I tried the 'reset' method by press-and-holding it for the full 40 seconds. The screen flashed, and I saw the boot screen with the tree and the boy. But the progress bar that shows the OS is loading didn't appear. It just shows that static OS screen (without any progress bar) with the backlight on, and stays there forever.
I made sure I charged the device for the full 20 hours as recommended in the forums here. I tried resetting it with the power cable plugged in, as well as unplugged. Nothing makes a difference. Resetting just causes the screen to flash and the static boot screen to come back on.
When I plug it into my PC, I do not see the USB drive option. I have also checked in the Device Manager that it wasn't a corrupted or partial install. Bottom line, my Kindle is non-functional, and not recognized by my computer (tried with different computers), so I can't even try any of the steps recommended by the other threads in this forum, and various other places online. I am at my wit's end.
What's most annoying is that the device bricked itself - trying to do a software update that I didn't ask it to do. I don't even know what I could have done to prevent this from happening!
Can anyone help me? :help:
Many thanks in advance! :thanks: