Flashed Before My Eyes
My life that is, flashed before my eyes.
I went to turn on the Kindle yesterday morning and to my surprise, nothing. The screen save didn’t change, the silver dots did not dance, as a matter of fact the silver dots were abscenst altogether.
My first thought was that maybe it had “locked-up”, I sort of remember it doing that to Gina once. She fixed it by switching the power button on the back to the off position.
Nope, that didn’t help.
Troubleshooting 101: Reboot!!!
I found the reset “button” on the back, I grabbed a paperclip and pressed it into the hole.
Nope, that didn’t help.
Troubleshooting 200: Disconnect and Reconnect the battery.
This was a bit harder to do, it is locked in there pretty tight.
Nope, that didn’t help.
I searched the Interwebs for a few minutes and came to the conclusion that the battery was dead. Not broken per se, just out of juice.
When Gina gave me the Kindle the other day she mentioned that the battery needed to be drained. From what I could see the battery should have had between a 1/4 and 1/3 charge remaining.
I unfortunately had neglected to put the Kindle charger in my laptop bag and unlike Kindle2, the original does not charge via the USB plug. Kudos to Amazon for making sure that drawback was not passed on to Kindle2.
Grabbing the charger as soon as I got home, I quickly connected the Kindle. I immediately saw life in the Kindle, the little silver dots along the right hand side began moving up and then down, in a rhythmic pattern indicating that the Kindle was charging.
I gave it a minute, then woke it from it’s slumber.
A sigh of relief was released as I was able to see the list of books on my Kindle, meaning that my wife would not summarily end my life for breaking the precious gift she had so recently bestowed on me.
In other news, I finished reading the first Artemis Fowl book last night.
I need to go and get ready for work.
Laterz