Kindle in Airplane Mode or not?

[Pablo]

Other than downloading or updating, my Kindle is "airplane mode", manually.

So I finish reading a book and my phone and PC know it. I get emails to review the book etc. How? I assumed airplane mode = no wireless, no wi-fi, nothing..

No I didn't "google it".

 

[Hall]

Do the emails show up after a certain # of days or really not until you finish reading the book ? Do you download another book and then the emails arrive ? If your Kindle has bluetooth and you have the Kindle app on your phone, they can "talk" to each other that way too, presuming you allowed it at one time in the past.

 

[oggb]

Wouldn't be surprised if the Kindle takes itself out of airplane mode occasionally/after certain events just to do some light syncing.

 

[4WD]

Not sure I follow - this is my new basic unit

 

[Pablo]

Do the emails show up after a certain # of days or really not until you finish reading the book ? Do you download another book and then the emails arrive ? If your Kindle has bluetooth and you have the Kindle app on your phone, they can "talk" to each other that way too, presuming you allowed it at one time in the past.

No, emails come right away.

I changed no settings and did not download another book. No bluetooth.

 

[Pablo]

Wouldn't be surprised if the Kindle takes itself out of airplane mode occasionally/after certain events just to do some light syncing.

Could be this.

Not sure I follow - this is my new basic unit

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This is as mine shows. BUT ON, of course.

 

[4WD]

Could be this.

This is as mine shows. BUT ON, of course.

Ok - my default is AM not on - so I’ll have to turn it on once boarded …
I do prefer it on planes - real book by the surf !

 

[zuluplus30]

Wouldn't be surprised if the Kindle takes itself out of airplane mode occasionally/after certain events just to do some light syncing.

Fire OS is just another AOSP. Android does the exact same thing. Airplane mode does not mean what you think it does. Put an Android phone in airplane mode for 24 hours, then go look at how much of your operating data was still transmitted back to Google servers.

We aren’t in control.

 

[Hall]

We aren’t in control.

My "laugh" reaction isn't skeptical, it's because what you say is no doubt true !

 

[JohnnyG]

My wife uses a Kindle, and I've seen it do some very questionable things. Like turn itself on for example.
I prefer to avoid them.

 

[bobdoo]

I saw wifi traffic from my kindles every night. Until I set them on airplane mode. Now, they do not connect.

 

[Pablo]

Fire OS is just another AOSP. Android does the exact same thing. Airplane mode does not mean what you think it does. Put an Android phone in airplane mode for 24 hours, then go look at how much of your operating data was still transmitted back to Google servers.

We aren’t in control.

Are the FAA and FCC aware of this?

 

[Hall]

I saw wifi traffic from my kindles every night.

No one should be surprised by this nowadays

Are the FAA and FCC aware of this?

How many people turn off their devices on airplanes anymore ?

 

[Pablo]

How many people turn off their devices on airplanes anymore ?

Only the people near my wife apparently!!!!

 

[paulo57509]

I have a 7th Gen Paperwhite. I used to keep it in airplane mode to avoid all the marketing ads, etc. when I shut off the screen.

It used to cycle through 6 or 7 ads and then revert to a standard non-ad screen from then on. Since the last update, this is no longer the case. Even in airplane mode, I get bombarded with book ads.