Yesterday while putting together the Kindle 4 shortcuts post, I was experimenting with different things and stumbled upon a way to get the Kindle 4 to display a blank screen instead of showing screensaver advertisements and special offers.
It’s an odd thing for Amazon to overlook, but if you are so inclined you never have to look at a screensaver ad again, not unless you forget and let the Kindle 4 fall asleep by letting it sit idle for ten minutes.
The trick to do this is ridiculously simple. Instead of putting the Kindle to sleep, just power it off completely. Sounds stupid, right? Yeah, but it works. The crazy thing is that the Kindle doesn’t take any longer to start up from being powered off as it does from being asleep, and even starts exactly where you left off; it doesn’t have to boot up or start from the homescreen or anything.
So instead of tapping the power button to put the Kindle 4 to sleep, just hold the power button down for about 7 seconds and it will turn the screen blank instead of showing a screensaver.
It’s funny how taking an extra six seconds to turn the device off is all it takes to avoid the screensaver ads completely. So what’s your choice, saving six seconds or not having to see the ads?
Of course the homescreen ad is still unavoidable….
Is there any way to get rid of the irritating adverts on the Kindle 3? and can one change the screensavers?
here is how to get into dev mode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZEhsCKgMHw
here is how to mod the screensaver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_pGDMsAYo
Another way to never see the adware run rampant in the Kindle is to NEVER register it with your Amazon account. Just load the books through the USB cable. Simple as that. No ads on the main screen, all the default pretty pictures are your screensavers.
If you have already plagued it with ads, just do a factory reset on the system itself.
I don’t know if this applies to Kindles ordered from Amazon online, since I bought mine at a local retail store.
Is there a SIMPLE way to use my files as screensavers now that O have disabled the ads on my Kindle 4 NT SO?
THanks