hello I’m Neil welcome back to the happy hut this is the dad delivers vlog where we try to
be happy with what we've already got and we've already got this
it's an Amazon Kindle but we're not happy with it because look
it has bricked! it has completely tanked
it has stopped working it's a Kindle paperwhite and nothing removes
this horrible icon of doom gloom and death is this device dead
I’m going to try and fix this using only my laptop and if this has happened to you too I’m so sorry
we've only had this like two years but there might be a way to fix this
my Kindle is actually my... it's actually my wife's Kindle
but her Kindle is only showing a battery icon with a exclamation mark
as you can see I don't know if you can see in the daylight
there is a nice battery charging light but nothing happens
it doesn't turn green and it just... it just stays dead
it's completely bricked this Kindle has just stopped working
so thanks for coming along with the ride of the jeopardy with me
so this is my wife's Amazon home page I’ve obviously blanked out some crucial
details because goodness forbid that you would actually order some stuff for us
probably do less damage than we do with it if I zoom in on the left hand side you can
see this hamburger menu icon the three lines in a row there
that indicates this menu and if I scroll down you
can see digital content and devices I’m going to go down to Kindle e-readers and books
click on that but I’m going to go all the way down to manage your content and devices
now this has opened up the list of books on my wife's dead Kindle
I wonder if all of these books might have crashed this Kindle
I’m going to remove the ones I know she's not going to read
so let's try this one and this one I’ve selected just two random books
and I’m hoping changing the account will somehow force Amazon to try and contact this device
so if I hit delete here and this deletes them from my wife's Kindle’s library
by the way you get to see a little glimpse into mine and my wife's reading history
yeah make of this what you will whoa the next thing I need to
do is to come indoors this is where I’ve got
wi-fi connection to the... the Kindle and the next thing we need to do
is to press and hold down the power button for a long time so I’m going to try that
and see if that somehow reboots it and let go of the power button
which isn't worked at all what a waste of time
okay so that didn't work but there's another solution that apparently does work and it means
that I’ll be slightly less grumpy and it involves plugging this into your computer to charge it
up rather than into a wall socket if you plug in your Kindle to your
computer - it charges at a different voltage and if you leave it on charge for about half
an hour in a computer sometimes that helps if you can hold down the power reset button
for about 45 seconds and we've got the
charge light on so that's a good sign I’m going to leave this for half an hour
so we just got back from the park and you will never guess what's happened
haven't got my microphone on - I’m sorry I think you can guess what happened
it worked!
it's brought the Kindle back to life yeah look by plugging it into a computer
it charges it at a different voltage there's some kind of block from using a wall charger
so while my family are arguing about whether an Asus Chromebook is a mum computer
I will celebrate the fact that I have somehow managed to fix her Kindle
there's all kinds of rows kicking off here now if this has helped you please hit a thumbs up so
that other people can find this video too and if it hasn't leave a leave a comment
because I’m sure people down below will be able to help you with your broken Kindle
oh man I’ve got Bolognese on the back of my paperwhite
can you please help my daddy get 1000 subscribers just click on his face - thanks bye! how's that