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Originally Posted by arooni
Has anyone with a bricked Kindle 3 been able to do a recovery using this method? I'd love to know if this is something I should pursue or if I should just wait to get a broken screen Kindle and just swap mobo/parts.
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EDIT:Just thought i'd update this since GeekMaster threw in a reference to me in the debricking sticky thread.
Successful Debrick using ATK
I had a bricked Kindle I had given up on (would only boot into diags), and using Freescale's ATK program (windowsXP 32 bit, physical Hardware) I unbricked it by flashing the rootfs with an image i got from this forum somewhere that i renamed <imagename>.img.bin( i cant exactly remember where i got it...). To test ATK, i flashed Seaniko7's custom kernel (even though i already had it... lol) and then proceeded to flash the image. I left it running overnight, so sadly i can't give you a time estimate... In the morning, i booted it up, and it booted normally! the only problem i had was then that the FAT32 table was corrupted, so I did a factory reset which temporaily fixed part of it but unzipping an update file gave me errors so i got a friend to run mkfs.vfat (as i'm still a linux noob
) for me on my Raspberry Pi. now i have a completely functioning Kindle!
(the image below is the corrupted fat32 partition (/mnt/us) on the kindle when i plugged the kindle in to install usbnetwork on LinuxMint)