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How to... change sleep-screen pics on your Kindle
E-book reader enhancement
Picture perfect
linkss
contains some further configuration and binary files, but also a folder called screensavers
. Delete the 00_you_can_delete_me.png
file already there and drop in a variety of 600 x 800 images - or 824 x 1200 if you have a Kindle DX - in either JPG or PNG format.
Drop your pictures into the screensaver folder
The linkss
folder contains a variety of files - select the one called autoreboot
and duplicate it. Rename it random
. Without this newly created empty file, the Kindle will run through your images in order.
Eject your Kindle, and, once again, select Update Your Kindle from the menu within the Settings screen. Again, your Kindle will restart, apply the update and, when you next put the Kindle to sleep, you'll be presented with one of your pictures.
The jailbreak and sleep-screen hacks should co-exist with future Kindle OS updates from Amazon, and shouldn't need to be reapplied, though that's always a possibility. As always with these unofficial tweaks, you proceed at your own risk. Don't install the software if you feel in any way uncomfortable with doing so.
If you want to change your selection of pictures, just connect your Kindle by USB and put some new images in the linkss/screensavers
folder. But the Kindle won't recognise the changes until it's rebooted: the Menu in the Settings screen has a Restart option - select it.
Sorted
Lastly, here's another trick for the Kindle 3. Go to the Home screen, press the Menu key and select the Search option. Enter the following text: ;debugOn
and press the return key. Now enter: ~disableScreensaver
That does what it says - entering ~resumeScreensaver
has the opposite effect. Entering ~help
lists some common commands. ®