Bought a used older Kindle secondhand for cheap. Owner was presumably offloading it in favor of a new model with the announcement. I love the models with the physical buttons, and figured I'd register it and load it up before the May 20th service deadline (I'd be fine sideloading after that). It connects to my WiFi, and gets far enough in the registration process to send me an OTP to log in. However, after I put that in, it says "This Kindle cannot connect to wireless at this time, try restarting from settings." I've restarted, I've factory reset, but nope, same message every time. I KNOW it's actually connecting to the wireless, since how else would Amazon send me the one time password? Anyone know what's up with this? Something fishy with the Kindle? Did they start rolling out the non-registration thing early? Is there any downside (besides not having my Amazon-only books) to just using it un-registered by side-loading it?
Note: I do believe the previous owner de-registered it, as there was no registered user on the device when I got it.
It is also on the latest firmware for its model.