Comments on: Critical Battery on Kindle 2: Hard Reset

By: gammoner

gammoner — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:57:52 +0000

THANK YOU! my kindle was stored for a while and when I unearthed it again it had that awful message and no charging helped. Your message was the trick. May the Universe rain wonderful blessings on you!

By: Kimstone08

Kimstone08 — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:10:01 +0000

I just got my kindle in the mail, and when i plug it in (both computer or wall) the charging light indicator never comes on. I cannot get the darn thing to turn on. its been plugged in for about an hour, and still nothing… HELP!

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:12:16 +0000

Just had the same problem with my kindle 2. Had to use the Kindle power unit to get it to work with the 30sec/20sec restart thing. Tried 2 Apple USB chargers and nothing worked, found my original Kindle charger and finally got the restart screen. Thanks from Australia!

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:58:11 +0000

Thank you so much. I leave for China in two days and I was counting on my Kindle for the long flights! I put in a Google search and found this site with your suggestions and in under one minute it was fixed! That’s how I wish everything worked in my life!!

Can you fix my mortgage now??? Thanks again.

By: IronMike

IronMike — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:45:38 +0000

i had problem with the NEW 3G kindle and did the reset procedure. it looked like nothing happened. i plugged it back in…

after a few minutes, the screen started flashing and updating, and the boot screen came up (i’d never seen that before).

it works, it just doesnt look like it’s working.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:54:19 +0000

Here is my way:
Critical battery and all that stuff. I tried to charge using a wall charge from iPhone (wth usb connection) and Kindle’s usb cable. Yellow light was on and nothing else. After 30 min or so the light switched off and this was every time I replugged the cable, the monitor was the same with the same words. Connecting to my PC had the same effect – yellow light for 30 minutes. Hard rebooting didn’t work -just nothing. Then I read the method with rebooting while charging. Nothing new, but after a couple of minutes the sign that something was connected to my PC appeared and I saw the Kindle item inside “my computer”. I realised that this was something new in the process, after about ten minutes the Kindle try to reboot itself but without any success, still it was a great progress! After it the connection with PC was lost and I repeated the procedure described above. The next time when the Kindle tried to reboot (still with no progress) the connection survived and after the third attempt of rebooting it was successful and the device appeared to work as usual!
Wish you pass through it, hope my experience will help!

By: eddy

eddy — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:08:05 +0000

Thanks, man! that help me out of the hole

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:45:57 +0000

To get it to work I had to plug in while I did the hold for 30 wait 20. Then when it flashed I unplugged and replugged it. Charged up fine then.

By: Critical Battery on my Kindle 2 « the little reader

Critical Battery on my Kindle 2 « the little reader — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:14:33 +0000

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By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:58:23 +0000

All great advice. Nothing worked for me EXCEPT this so I thought I would pass it on. Plug your kindle into powered USB on computer. If the orange light does not come on when it is supposed to be charging, then hold the power switch to the right for a few seconds while it is plugged in. This forced the kindle to somehow reboot. It is working fine now. Hope this helps someone who is having similar issues.