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Originally Posted by Titano
Maybe someone should make a script to do this. (I think something interactive like the [crappy] one I wrote, to bad dd does not have a verbose mode....  ) That way when someone with a 5.1.1 kindle is willing to do it they just have run it and upload the files. (We could even make a gui launcher for it so they don't need to use xterm or the like.) I would do it (following what you guys have said.) but I think it would turn out really bad. (I only know what I have learned first hand.) What do you guys think? Also maybe we should open up a new thread because this is getting a little  . |
The problem with these "user-friendly" approaches is that in order for the user to execute them, they will already need to have a modified device. In other words: we will never get completely pristine images using such methods.
Anyway, I guess that at least having something is better than not having anything at all, so I quickly wrote something user-friendly. It's not beautiful, and the code is quick and dirty, but it works. Tested and working on 5.1.0 (note: the extractions may take quite some time, i.e., more than 10 minutes for the main partition).
Requirements:
Installation: unzip the attachment, then copy the .azw2 to the documents folder of the device, then run it. It will produce the following files on the device:
- mmcblk0p1.img.gz : main partition image
- mmcblk0p2.img.gz : diags partition image
- main_kernel.img and diags_kernel.img: kernels
Again, I know that this is not the best solution, but
maybe it will finally convince someone with 5.1.1 firmware to make those images available to us.
Edit: There was a serious bug in version 1.0.0 which caused the tool to dump unusable kernels under certain circumstances (
full story here). Version 1.0.1 (now attached here) fixes this bug.