I need help! Kindle touch bricked!

elenablue · 07-10-2013, 06:31 PM

Hello,
I've got a problem with my Kindle Touch; I bought it from a friend of mine, and he installed Duokan. I gave it to my mother and she has deleted something; the device doesn't turn on, only appears progress bar but nothing more.
I've tried to unbrick by using Kubrick, but when the process has ended, the Kindle wasn't unbricked.
Can I unbrick the devide by any other process? Can I reinstall the OS someway?
I've tried too reset the Kindle by pressing power button for 20 seconds. The Kindle is out of garanty.
Thank you very much for your help, and sorry for my english, hope you understand me!

HarryT · 07-11-2013, 02:27 AM

Moved to the dev forum.

elenablue · 07-11-2013, 07:59 AM

Ok, thanks. Anyone can help me, please?

knc1 · 07-11-2013, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elenablue

Ok, thanks. Anyone can help me, please?

Kubrick does not modify the contents of the USB storage area that the user sees over the USB cable.

Duokan (Dorkian?) is in the USB storage area.
Did you remove it or uninstal it?
Before or after running Kubrick on it?

I don't have a K5touch myself, so I don't know first hand if Kubrick has an option for re-creating the USB storage area on your device.
But if it does, that would get rid of Dorkian for certain.

ixtab · 07-11-2013, 01:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knc1

Kubrick does not modify the contents of the USB storage area that the user sees over the USB cable.

Duokan (Dorkian?) is in the USB storage area.
Did you remove it or uninstal it?
Before or after running Kubrick on it?

I don't have a K5touch myself, so I don't know first hand if Kubrick has an option for re-creating the USB storage area on your device.
But if it does, that would get rid of Dorkian for certain.

Nope, it doesn't (yet? ;-) ).

@elenablue: Can you still access the USB drive when the Kindle is on? (Maybe even just for a short time after it reboots?)

If so, delete *everything* (and I mean *everything*) on the Kindle, then try to re-run Kubrick and also check the checkbox to delete the internal data.

If you can't... then it might be time to implement the feature to completely blast the USB storage into Kubrick, too.

knc1 · 07-11-2013, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ixtab

Nope, it doesn't (yet? ;-) ).
- - - -
It might be time to implement the feature to completely blast the USB storage into Kubrick, too.

We recently had someone try to fix a seriously damaged USB storage area by re-formating it in Windows.
Which really didn't do much of anything good to the Kindle's FAT layout.

Plus - that one layer of the stacked "export" is mounted errors=remount-ro
(or, whatever the correct form of that option is)

Probably one source of the "I can't make lasting changes to USB storage" problem reports.

Hmm...
I guess switching the device to diags mode, stopping the fuse export stack if running, un-mounting both layers of the stack, re-formatting mmcblk0p4 with the Kindle specific layout, then putting everything back together is the only answer.

OR
Just zero the first 16 blocks of mmcblk0p4 and force the Kindle to re-boot and fix it, itself.
BUT - we learned last week that the "custom kernel" for the Kindles does not detect/perform the re-build like a stock kernel does.
(All done by the initramfs, which might be what fixed this one, during the re-boot.)

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ixtab · 07-11-2013, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knc1

We recently had someone try to fix a seriously damaged USB storage area by re-formating it in Windows.
Which really didn't do much of anything good to the Kindle's FAT layout.

Plus - that one layer of the stacked "export" is mounted errors=remount-ro
(or, whatever the correct form of that option is)

Probably one source of the "I can't make lasting changes to USB storage" problem reports.

Hmm...
I guess switching the device to diags mode, stopping the fuse export stack if running, un-mounting both layers of the stack, re-formatting mmcblk0p4 with the Kindle specific layout, then putting everything back together is the only answer.

OR
Just zero the first 16 blocks of mmcblk0p4 and force the Kindle to re-boot and fix it, itself.
BUT - we learned last week that the "custom kernel" for the Kindles does not detect/perform the re-build like a stock kernel does.
(All done by the initramfs, which might be what fixed this one, during the re-boot.)

ADD TO:
Summer of Kode Challenge list.

Bah... it's already on my TODO list for Kubrick 3.5

NiLuJe · 07-11-2013, 02:39 PM

IIRC, the factory reset script does it.

knc1 · 07-11-2013, 02:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

IIRC, the factory reset script does it.

Oh, that would make it even easier.

elenablue · 07-14-2013, 05:51 AM

Thank you everybody. My kindle is unbricked.

knc1 · 07-14-2013, 08:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elenablue

Thank you everybody. My kindle is unbricked.

How did you do it?

elenablue · 07-14-2013, 05:24 PM

I reinstalled Duokan and after with Kubrick!

07-10-2013, 06:31 PM	#1
elenablue Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: Kindle touch	I need help! Kindle touch bricked! Hello, I've got a problem with my Kindle Touch; I bought it from a friend of mine, and he installed Duokan. I gave it to my mother and she has deleted something; the device doesn't turn on, only appears progress bar but nothing more. I've tried to unbrick by using Kubrick, but when the process has ended, the Kindle wasn't unbricked. Can I unbrick the devide by any other process? Can I reinstall the OS someway? I've tried too reset the Kindle by pressing power button for 20 seconds. The Kindle is out of garanty. Thank you very much for your help, and sorry for my english, hope you understand me!

07-11-2013, 07:59 AM	#3
elenablue Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: Kindle touch	Ok, thanks. Anyone can help me, please? Last edited by elenablue; 07-11-2013 at 08:15 AM.

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HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Moved to the dev forum.

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elenablue Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: Kindle touch	Thank you everybody. My kindle is unbricked.

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