Noob's guide to debricking through ATK :D - Page 34

Wibber · 02-27-2013, 04:47 PM

Well and update I had reflashed my demo kindle and accidentally overwritten the area of the MMC that stores the S/N and MAC. I don't have the box any more so thought I was screwed!

While trolling the forums for ideas I found a thread where someone had a cracked screen and need to find out the serial number and someone suggested connecting it to the PC and reading the serial from device manager - which game me an epiphany!

I used USBDeview to lookup up the data of all USB devices installed on my computer and there it was! yay!

Using the MAC from another kindle the device is able to connect to Wifi but it is unable to register, or possibly it is unable to register due to the previous incorrect serial number being deregisted where this serial hasn't been resulting the kindle thinking it is deregisted when it isn't.

now I just need to figure out how to update the PCBA ID, and hopefully get the MAC from Amazon Support!

term1nat0r · 02-27-2013, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wibber

but it is unable to register

I guess that Kindle can not to register, because some information still lost. Go to settings 411 and look for the "certificate". Is it "missing"?

Wibber · 02-28-2013, 01:44 PM

Yes it is! What does that mean and can I replace it?

Cheers

term1nat0r · 03-03-2013, 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wibber

Yes it is! What does that mean and can I replace it?

Cheers

I do not know what that means.
I have the same problemm... Can not find the heart to write to tech support Amazon. I'm afraid my knowledge of English is not enough to explain it right.

knc1 · 03-03-2013, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wibber

Yes it is! What does that mean and can I replace it?

Cheers

It is a public certificate - it should be in every de-brick image ever posted.
Just mount the de-brick image of your choosing, find and copy the certificate.

hawhill · 03-03-2013, 02:01 PM

Well, there is data in the device dependent configuration stored in the flash section that also has MAC and serial number. I didn't bother to investigate yet, but that's basically why I've chosen to never publish the device config from my device even with blanked MAC and serial number (and if I zeroed out everything, it would not be of much worth anyway...).

CaelThunderwing · 03-08-2013, 12:58 AM

actually hawhill i've noticed that if the other ID's are missing/garbled it'll refuse to register, i duplicated that by flashing the Bad dump i hadfrom my dead (and now gone) kindle to teh new one. Sure as ***t it would error durring reg but everything else worked. restored the backup and it resumed like it was just turned off all this time.

ChaosZeroX · 05-16-2013, 01:29 PM

Trying to unbrick my kindle but I messed up

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/K3noobdebrickatk
Following this guide I was rushing and not reading everything on every line and I put "0x00041000" in the address instead of "00041000"

I then tried to do it correctly with 00041000, but now I'm getting "Failed to initial flash or Do not support this Flash, please reset the target"

Help please

twobob · 05-16-2013, 01:37 PM

Ouch.... Try kubrick.

top sticky.

Cheers.

knc1 · 05-16-2013, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChaosZeroX

Trying to unbrick my kindle but I messed up

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/K3noobdebrickatk
Following this guide I was rushing and not reading everything on every line and I put "0x00041000" in the address instead of "00041000"

I then tried to do it correctly with 00041000, but now I'm getting "Failed to initial flash or Do not support this Flash, please reset the target"

Help please

try Kubrick
It might be able to recover your K3

ChaosZeroX · 05-16-2013, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knc1

try Kubrick
It might be able to recover your K3

Tried it twice, carefully following the instructions each time, to no success.
When it got to flashing the kernel it spent a long time on 'waiting for device'
then changed to success without any progress or anything in between, then when it went to flash the main partition it stayed on 0% for a couple mins then said finished...It was suppose to take 1-3 hours.
From the little I've gathered I think I broke the bootloader. (how to fix if so?)
I haven't gotten the screen to do anything for a while and nothing ever happens with the LEDs without it being plugged in (turns orange).

It's a kindle 3 keyboard by the way (wifi only). I had some hacks installed ages ago but I haven't messed with it in a long time since.

twobob · 05-16-2013, 03:26 PM

Jimminy.. That does sound bad. Err...
I'm a bit rusty on restoring utterly mangled devices.
Maybe one of the others will have a bright idea. Apologies

Personally I use k3flasher to fix up mangled k3's

ChaosZeroX · 05-16-2013, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by twobob

Jimminy.. That does sound bad. Err...
I'm a bit rusty on restoring utterly mangled devices.
Maybe one of the others will have a bright idea. Apologies

Personally I use k3flasher to fix up mangled k3's

Thank you for caring

I'll check out k3flasher

twobob · 05-16-2013, 04:51 PM

sure. it's a powerful tool. Good fortune.

hawhill · 05-17-2013, 03:01 AM

But I think it is also what's being used in Kubrick. So it will probably expose the same behaviour. I don't think that breaking the device via ATK is easily possible. Then, I'm skeptical why the poster was able to use "0x..." in the ATK input field - the "x" isn't a valid hex char and I think ATK wouldn't work in such a case. So I guess the error report misses some parts. Maybe they involved frying the USB port on either the Kindle or the Host, maybe it's just a bad USB cable. Don't know. Or it might simply not been put into USB downloader mode properly again. I'd suggest to hang on to Kubrick (to rule out other error possibilities) and try with other USB ports and cables.

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02-27-2013, 04:47 PM	#496
Wibber Member Posts: 12 Karma: 4836 Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Christchurch, NZ Device: kindle K3G	Well and update I had reflashed my demo kindle and accidentally overwritten the area of the MMC that stores the S/N and MAC. I don't have the box any more so thought I was screwed! While trolling the forums for ideas I found a thread where someone had a cracked screen and need to find out the serial number and someone suggested connecting it to the PC and reading the serial from device manager - which game me an epiphany! I used USBDeview to lookup up the data of all USB devices installed on my computer and there it was! yay! Using the MAC from another kindle the device is able to connect to Wifi but it is unable to register, or possibly it is unable to register due to the previous incorrect serial number being deregisted where this serial hasn't been resulting the kindle thinking it is deregisted when it isn't. now I just need to figure out how to update the PCBA ID, and hopefully get the MAC from Amazon Support!

02-28-2013, 01:44 PM	#498
Wibber Member Posts: 12 Karma: 4836 Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Christchurch, NZ Device: kindle K3G	Yes it is! What does that mean and can I replace it? Cheers

03-03-2013, 02:01 PM	#501
hawhill Wizard Posts: 1,379 Karma: 2155307 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Goettingen, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Mini	Well, there is data in the device dependent configuration stored in the flash section that also has MAC and serial number. I didn't bother to investigate yet, but that's basically why I've chosen to never publish the device config from my device even with blanked MAC and serial number (and if I zeroed out everything, it would not be of much worth anyway...).

03-08-2013, 12:58 AM	#502
CaelThunderwing Zealot Posts: 100 Karma: 73434 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: K3(Wifi+3G)	actually hawhill i've noticed that if the other ID's are missing/garbled it'll refuse to register, i duplicated that by flashing the Bad dump i hadfrom my dead (and now gone) kindle to teh new one. Sure as ***t it would error durring reg but everything else worked. restored the backup and it resumed like it was just turned off all this time.

05-16-2013, 01:29 PM	#503
ChaosZeroX Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Kindle 3 WiFi	Trying to unbrick my kindle but I messed up https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/K3noobdebrickatk Following this guide I was rushing and not reading everything on every line and I put "0x00041000" in the address instead of "00041000" I then tried to do it correctly with 00041000, but now I'm getting "Failed to initial flash or Do not support this Flash, please reset the target" Help please

05-16-2013, 01:37 PM	#504
twobob ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°){ʇlnɐɟ ƃǝs}Týr Posts: 6,586 Karma: 6299991 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: uti gratia usura (Yao ying da ying; Mo ying da yieng) Device: PW-WIFI\|K5-3G+WIFI\| K4\|K3-3G\|DXG\|K2\| Rooted Nook Touch	Ouch.... Try kubrick. top sticky. Cheers.

05-16-2013, 03:26 PM	#507
twobob ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°){ʇlnɐɟ ƃǝs}Týr Posts: 6,586 Karma: 6299991 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: uti gratia usura (Yao ying da ying; Mo ying da yieng) Device: PW-WIFI\|K5-3G+WIFI\| K4\|K3-3G\|DXG\|K2\| Rooted Nook Touch	Jimminy.. That does sound bad. Err... I'm a bit rusty on restoring utterly mangled devices. Maybe one of the others will have a bright idea. Apologies Personally I use k3flasher to fix up mangled k3's

05-16-2013, 04:51 PM	#509
twobob ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°){ʇlnɐɟ ƃǝs}Týr Posts: 6,586 Karma: 6299991 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: uti gratia usura (Yao ying da ying; Mo ying da yieng) Device: PW-WIFI\|K5-3G+WIFI\| K4\|K3-3G\|DXG\|K2\| Rooted Nook Touch	sure. it's a powerful tool. Good fortune.

05-17-2013, 03:01 AM	#510
hawhill Wizard Posts: 1,379 Karma: 2155307 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Goettingen, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Mini	But I think it is also what's being used in Kubrick. So it will probably expose the same behaviour. I don't think that breaking the device via ATK is easily possible. Then, I'm skeptical why the poster was able to use "0x..." in the ATK input field - the "x" isn't a valid hex char and I think ATK wouldn't work in such a case. So I guess the error report misses some parts. Maybe they involved frying the USB port on either the Kindle or the Host, maybe it's just a bad USB cable. Don't know. Or it might simply not been put into USB downloader mode properly again. I'd suggest to hang on to Kubrick (to rule out other error possibilities) and try with other USB ports and cables.

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