Choose wisely and you’ll eventually be asked to register the Kindle: Tap “Erase Everything”.įinally, the device will restart and show you a choice of languages, along with a few more base level “just out of the box” configuration options. It says: “You are about to reset your Kindle to factory defaults, which will remove all of your personal information, Amazon account information, downloaded content, and applications. Tap on that small link and a warning will pop up: The Kindle, properly, then prompted me for a password:īut what if I too had forgotten my password and even after a dozen attempts, I just couldn’t get in to the device to change its settings? Simple, tap on reset your Kindle to factory defaults. To get started, I set up parental controls on the device, then went to the system menu by pulling down the menu from the top and tapping on “Parental Controls”. Yes, we take helping people that seriously here at AskDaveTaylor! To demonstrate, I actually did a hard reset on my own Kindle Fire HD to see what would happen. So, as they’d say Down Under, “No worries, mate!” What does that mean? That if you were to buy a new Kindle or reset your current Kindle to its original factory state, everything will magically just appear and download on demand once you log in to your Amazon account. If all 300 of those books are purchased and downloaded through the standard Amazon Kindle Store, then they all actually exist in the much-discussed “cloud” and it’s just a copy of them that’s on your device. The good news is that there’s no reason to panic.
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