Edit: I've checked with my wife who has an ad supported Kindle for over a year and keeps it in flight mode for months at a time. It never did that to her. So either Amazon changed that a long time ago, or I've believed a lie.
So not only did mine exit flight mode it somehow re-enabled updates and updated itself.
I just use a Kobo now.
I'm not saying it's ok to ignore flight mode options, but neither is the expectation to completely avoid ads when buying this very version of the Kindle.
EULAs are an entirely separate problem, though.
Kindle Voyage 1st generation, if that's relevant.
Worrying. "Flight" mode exists for a reason and should not be overridden.
Don't get me wrong the Kindle shouldn't do what it's doing but it's by no means a safety issue.
But, more importantly, it puts your phone's radio through an unusual high-power-draw situation that the phone's manufacturer may not have bothered testing for, which can make phone batteries explode that might not have otherwise ever exploded.
Oh, and also, a plane-load of people whose phones are all ranging hogs circuits on a bunch of towers at once (for no productive purpose, since the phones don't have high-enough SNR to actually communicate anything useful with any of the towers they can "see"), so the cellular service providers have politely asked the FAA to get people to not do that.
2.7 million people fly on airplanes every day.
Even if you think the vast majority of them turn their phones off, it's still a huge number of people who don't.
Was on a full plane from CA to TX a while back. During the final landing approach I heard dozens of alerts as the plane got nearer to the ground.
Nobody cared one bit.
That sounded way too low so I checked -- I think your number is US domestic flights, worldwide we have about 12.6 million daily passengers.
> The FAA did not consider changing the regulations regarding the use of cell phones for voice communications during flight because the issue is under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The ARC did recommend that the FAA consult with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to review its current rules.
So it seems to be the FCC that has made this decision (in consultation with the FAA it sounds like).
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It's a totally different affair if you are receiving a signal by a 100 Watt transmitter at 10 Km or a signal from a 1 Watt transmitter at 5 meters distance. The 1 Watt transmitter will overpower anything in its band with great ease and any dirt on the spectral output will have the same effect in other bands. Note that most cellphones will crank up their output if they can't connect to a base station that they can receive.
Of course plane designers will still do what they can to reduce this nuisance but leaving our phone on makes it harder than it should be. Please turn your phone off or to airplane mode and consider it a very small price to pay for flying an airplane.
Yes, flight mode does matter, no it probably won't crash a plane but does it have to before you would consider following a very simple rule?
If airplanes could be brought down by turning on a cellphone you would never have been allowed to travel with one in the first place.
Yeah that's gross. Btw, Amazon does sell some cheaper ebook readers on the understanding that they will show ads. Was that the case here?
It was fairly straightforward to replace the ad images. Now it shows me cat pictures when turned off.
As others suggested: it was an app-supported Kindle indeed. So it's not like Amazon went crazy unprovoked evil or something.
Edit: I've checked with my wife who has an ad supported Kindle for over a year and keeps it in flight mode for months at a time. It never did that to her. So either Amazon changed that a long time ago, or I've believed a lie.
What's the worst that could happen? It's not like a plane's gonna fall out of the sky - Exhibit A.
I have couple kindle paperwhites of different generations, and none of them did any unexpected update for years.