This kindle keyboard is turning into 8 years old. It’s always been treating me well-- a sincere e-reader. And today it suddenly got frozen, and I thought its time’s arrived... But no, after I tried to do a “soft” reset, it was brought back to life. All thanks to some amazing guy on the internet. The steps are as follows:
Hold the power switch to the right for 20 seconds. Release.
Press the Home button for 60 seconds. A “Reset” screen will appear.
Hit the DEL key on the keyboard. This brought my unit back to a stable state, as if I’d done a reboot or a soft reset of the device.
I’m told that if this doesn’t work, you have to do a hard reset of the device, which is the equivalent of wiping & resetting your Kindle. This procedure will wipe out all your books and require you to re-download them to your Kindle which, while not disastrous, will take time. It will also lose your bookmarks & settings. To do a hard reset, type the word “reset” in the above screen after following step 1. Warning: There’s no turning back from this once you type the entire word in and there’s no “Are you sure?”
Credit first goes to this post: https://kurtsthoughts.com/2013/01/02/howto-softhard-reset-your-kindle-3g-w-keyboard/, then to whoever the hell originally knew this trick and shared it.
Oh well, I’m going to have a new kindle paperwhite soon, but this buddy will probably stay with me a little while more-- as long as he is able to do the job ;)