Say a 4-yr-old who likes to mess with things saw my kindle lying on a table, because I like being able to pick it up and read whenever without having to dig it out of a drawer or high shelf out of reach. Before anybody saw she had the kindle, she had lost my spot in my book, changed the font size, and purchased two books from the Amazon store. Annoying, but could have been worse.
I got the books refunded and found my page again. Also turned off one-click purchases, which was infuriatingly on by default on the kindle even though I had already disabled it on my phone and computer previously - I don’t use the store from my kindle, so had never had reason to suspect it was an issue.
No harm done though. She could have deleted stuff. So I put a passcode on it too. But it occurred to me after some research that the kindle offers to factory reset itself after five unsuccessful passcode attempts. Which means if the little devil gets up to her shenanigans again, there’s a decent chance she’ll end up just wiping my kindle. That’s even worse than just leaving it unlocked and risking her messing things up.
It kind of sucks that there’s no real third option, aside from just keeping the thing out of her reach at all times. Anybody else have this admittedly niche problem, and how did you deal with it?
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The best thing to do is to teach the four year old that the Kindle is not hers and she should not be touching it.
Ha! Good one! Funny. I needed the laugh, thank you.
I thought the kindle fire tablets hard reset after five attempts. I’m pretty sure the normal kindle e-reader devices don’t have a limited number of attempts before hard resetting. I do know that the kindle e-reader only devices when you forget your passcode you can enter a certain string of numbers which will hard-reset your device, which may be a concern for your situation.
I’m getting conflicting info on that, but I really don’t want to test it myself. I do know you can force a hard reset by entering 111222777, which would be pretty unlikely for a kid to input by accident.
