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Original "Simple" debricking methods for K5-Touch, K4-Mini, & K3-Keyboard
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03-03-2012, 06:15 AM
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Thanks! You are good!
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03-03-2012, 09:39 AM
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 -- my role models while I was growing up were Jesus Christ (for compassion and kindness) and Spock from Startrek (for hard science and the analytical approach). I selected other role models as well, but those two stand well above all the rest.  And thank you for the positive feedback. It is good to know that my posts are appreciated enough to make it worth the effort for me to continue to contribute my valuable and limited time to these forums. Last edited by geekmaster; 03-03-2012 at 09:44 AM. |
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03-03-2012, 11:09 AM
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Amazing work! I wish I'd waited for this, I'll bet it would have fixed mine up in its earlier, non-black-screen-of-death state immediately!
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03-03-2012, 12:04 PM
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I pretty much described the entire recovery process for even a severely bricked kindle in that one sentence. It takes a little linux knowledge to fill in the missing details. |
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03-03-2012, 03:22 PM
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Thanks for this.
 Finally we have a well described way to fix Touch. (BTW: links to the corresponding threads are missing here  )
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03-03-2012, 04:05 PM
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And now, that first post (above) even contains those mysterious "missing links". Last edited by geekmaster; 03-03-2012 at 04:16 PM. |
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03-03-2012, 05:16 PM
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Thanks again for your efforts on this so far. ( I'm the first person who unbricked his Touch with your new tool and really thankful for that) |
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03-03-2012, 05:24 PM
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@geekmaster: Nice. I think a short note on unmounting should be added. Otherwise, some repair tries might fail - depending on how the device is being restarted. Another thing would be a short information that in the case of dd'ing a backup image no mounting is needed (and might even be harmful).
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03-03-2012, 09:13 PM
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Last edited by geekmaster; 03-05-2012 at 09:59 PM. |
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03-03-2012, 09:16 PM
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I do not know if it would be better to tell people to always unmount the disk, or just unmount it before doing a hard reset. The problem is that if you document all the corner cases, it begins to look like the posts that this simplified version was meant to replace. EDIT: Rather than specifically saying to unmount it, I changed the order of restoring, and mount and repair, to eliminate that confusion. Last edited by geekmaster; 03-03-2012 at 11:53 PM. |
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03-03-2012, 10:12 PM
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03-03-2012, 11:57 PM
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I am glad you like it. I added a "generic" verision of it as a "summary" to the top of the first post in this thread. Regarding dropping out when unplugged, mine does that too. So it would seem that it should not be unplugged then. dasmoover had that problem when moving his kindle between his windows and his linux computers. I do not remember how that was solved, but the complete IRC conversation was placed into a post if you wish to read it to see how he solved that problem. I will go look for it now... EDIT: Found it. Post #87. Some of my threads are getting rather large. Read this: Last edited by geekmaster; 03-25-2012 at 11:53 AM. |
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03-04-2012, 10:27 AM
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That's good reading! But it looks like the solution the two of you came up with was to boot into fastboot from diags mode, and diags mode isn't working for me. So I think I will try getting linux running in a virtual machine to run the fastboot tool, unless someone can get the PC fastboot tool working.
I wonder if things would change if I could charge it all the way. It only seems to want to charge when it's in "plug-me-in" mode - no matter what state it's in with a black screen, and whether wall-charger or computer charging, it always seems close to running out of batteries. Of course this would be easier to investigate if I had a way of querying the battery state - very hard to infer from the limited information given by its behaviour. |
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03-04-2012, 12:15 PM
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Not gonna work on Linux like that, would need the corresponding Linux USB libraries instead. In advance of the question: No, I don't know which libraries. I have not (yet) tried to build it myself. |
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