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Kindle fire devices bridge the gap between conventional e-ink Kindle e readers and tablets powered by Android. Kindle fire tablets are manufactured and sold by Amazon. They have the functionality of any smart device and run on Fire OS, a ported version of Android.
Thus, using a single Amazon Kindle Account, users can run a kindle fire as well as Kindle e book readers. However, there can be several malfunctions or reasons why users would want to reset their kindle fire device. This article is a tutorial about resetting your kindle fire device safely.
SOME PRECAUTIONS BEFORE RESETTING KINDLE FIRE DEVICE
Backing up data safely is the first priority of users of any smart device. Since a Kindle device works after initial Amazon Kindle Login, most of the Amazon purchases are backed up on Amazon servers. Hence all the contacts, messages, notes, Amazon purchases are backed up on Amazon servers. However, the updates should be set to automatic to use the full potential of the backup procedure.
Photos and other user generated media are not backed up on the Amazon servers. Users can Manage Kindle Devices photos and other media by backing up on Amazon's cloud service. For free users, they get 5GB of storage online. For prime users, they get up to 100 GB. If you want to buy more space, it would set you back a $12 for 100GB storage a year.
To backup the media and other user data on Amazon cloud service, users have to first check how much space is available on the tier they are using on the cloud. They can do so by logging in and then going to Manage My Kindle Account.
After they have successfully done so, they can check the storage available. If the storage is sufficient, users can go into settings>backup and restore data and then select an automatic backup option.
Hence, when Amazon Kindle Fire device would be in sleep mode and is connected to Wi-Fi, the device would backup all the data on Amazon cloud. Since the data lasting validity is 1 year on Amazon cloud services, the data will not be lost. But if automatic updates are switched off, the data might be deleted from the servers.
HOW TO RESET KINDLE DEVICE?
Users must check for starters that the device is fully updated from Amazon Kindle Update. If there are any updates pending, users must install them. Kindle Support | Kindle Com Support
After the updates are complete, users must connect their Kindle device to a computer and backup all the sideloaded data on the computer since it is not backed up on Amazon cloud. Further, all the passwords and in app settings are also lost in the reset process.
To backup, follow the following steps •Go to home screen and then click on settings by
swiping down the toggle notification menu. •In settings go to device options.
•Once in device options, click on reset to factory
defaults.
•There would be a confirm popup and hence click
on it. If you have set a password insert password in the text box and confirm.
• Once it is confirmed, the Kindle device will restart
after a service screen with gears appears for some time.
• Your Kindle device will be good as new once the
update is complete. However, the device will be running the latest update which was done to it. To see what is the latest kindle fire tablet OS version currently supplied, you can Download Kindle App to know information related to kindle fire too. Users cannot roll back to the previous version of the OS if they want to.
After the update is complete, users can log in to their Amazon account and restore the data. Restoring depends on the network speed of downloading the data which was backed up on Amazon cloud.