lockwoodx
12-21-2010, 12:24 PM
http://connectify.blogspot.com/2010/12/why-leather-cover-crashes-kindle-3.html
2 Ohms of resistance? For those of you who aren't electronics people, that's reasonably close to being a wire. And just inside the Kindle where the hooks go are the ground and power for the Kindle... remember that's how it powers the light. In fact, when my Kindle is in the case, there is more electricity running through those hooks and the case than there is going to the Kindle's actual electronics.
This is why the Kindle crashes. Once a bit of paint has rubbed off the hooks, most of the Kindle's power flows through the cover, leading to brownouts; the CPU does not get enough juice to operate properly and ends out either hung or rebooting!
If you're like me then you got your mother a 3g kindle for christmas but watch out? Depending what kind you purchased could wind up a big headache.
The 3G lit kindle needs the gold hooks to complete a circuit and light up. So what does amazon think about that?
Amazon guy: Hmmmm the cheaper model is going to sell a lot more but the permium model requires that cover which short circuits the un-lit version. Making 2 different covers will cost too much money and time to manufacture. Lets just spay some cheap black paint over the gold hooks so we only have to make 1 set of covers.
Oops... as soon as the paint wears off people's un-lit kindels will start crashing.
Fuck you Amazon!
2 Ohms of resistance? For those of you who aren't electronics people, that's reasonably close to being a wire. And just inside the Kindle where the hooks go are the ground and power for the Kindle... remember that's how it powers the light. In fact, when my Kindle is in the case, there is more electricity running through those hooks and the case than there is going to the Kindle's actual electronics.
This is why the Kindle crashes. Once a bit of paint has rubbed off the hooks, most of the Kindle's power flows through the cover, leading to brownouts; the CPU does not get enough juice to operate properly and ends out either hung or rebooting!
If you're like me then you got your mother a 3g kindle for christmas but watch out? Depending what kind you purchased could wind up a big headache.
The 3G lit kindle needs the gold hooks to complete a circuit and light up. So what does amazon think about that?
Amazon guy: Hmmmm the cheaper model is going to sell a lot more but the permium model requires that cover which short circuits the un-lit version. Making 2 different covers will cost too much money and time to manufacture. Lets just spay some cheap black paint over the gold hooks so we only have to make 1 set of covers.
Oops... as soon as the paint wears off people's un-lit kindels will start crashing.
Fuck you Amazon!