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Old 10-02-2012, 06:53 AM   #1
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My Kindle 3g +wifi is bricked for some time and I'm trying to debrick it using k3flasher. I was albe to upload partition table and kernel, but I'm not able to upload rootfs.bin

After some time I'm getting:
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sudo ./k3flasher mx35to2_mmc.bin program 0x003C1000 ../kindle/rootfs.bin
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I: writing 0x00200000 (=2097152) bytes to address 0x161c1000, waiting for completion...
I: wrote 0x00200000 (=2097152) bytes, waiting for completion...
I: flashed 0x00010000 (=65536) bytes
I: flashed 0x00020000 (=131072) bytes
I: flashed 0x00030000 (=196608) bytes
I: flashed 0x00040000 (=262144) bytes
I: flashed 0x00050000 (=327680) bytes
I: flashed 0x00060000 (=393216) bytes
I: flashed 0x00070000 (=458752) bytes
I: flashed 0x00080000 (=524288) bytes
I: flashed 0x00090000 (=589824) bytes
I: flashed 0x000a0000 (=655360) bytes
I: flashed 0x000b0000 (=720896) bytes
I: flashed 0x000c0000 (=786432) bytes
I: flashed 0x000d0000 (=851968) bytes
I: flashed 0x000e0000 (=917504) bytes
I: flashed 0x000f0000 (=983040) bytes
I: flashed 0x00100000 (=1048576) bytes
I: flashed 0x00110000 (=1114112) bytes
I: flashed 0x00120000 (=1179648) bytes
I: flashed 0x00130000 (=1245184) bytes
I: flashed 0x00140000 (=1310720) bytes
I: flashed 0x00150000 (=1376256) bytes
I: flashed 0x00160000 (=1441792) bytes
I: flashed 0x00170000 (=1507328) bytes
I: flashed 0x00180000 (=1572864) bytes
E: reading data from device: LIBUSB_ERROR_NO_DEVICE
E: flashing data
E: aborting. It is suggested you power-cycle the device.
It happens everytime I'm trying to flash rootfs.bin. Each time I was charging my kindle for 3 days before this operation. Before flashing battery is showing 3.6V and after this error it is showing 2.98V.

Could you tell me if there is a way to flash kindle without battery or is there a way to charge battery while flashing?
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Old 10-02-2012, 06:59 AM   #2
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LIBUSB_ERROR_NO_DEVICE was the error I got when the RAM kernel was being flaky and giving out....
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Old 10-02-2012, 07:04 AM   #3
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I do not suspect RAM kernel, because I was able to flash kernel.bin and uboot.bin
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Old 10-02-2012, 07:13 AM   #4
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I dunno the solution.

but this has to be at least the fourth report of this "device bombs during long operation", not limited to k3flasher users either

perhaps there really is a defect raising it's head in some of these devices, or perhaps is is charge related? I assume you charged it to green battery first. you did.

Another thought is USB power cutting off after a certain time in windows, turn that off if you haven't already and you use that OS. (EDIT: also not really relevant reading back but I'll leave it here in case it does apply to someone)

I run out of ideas there. Good fortune

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hmm.... your battery is dying really quickly...... You could try using a high powered USB port(my 3 year old motherboard has 10) if you have one... that might be able to power the Kindle....
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Old 10-02-2012, 08:13 AM   #6
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We really need to add battery condition monitoring to K3Flasher.
The battery management is in the same chip as the UART, so we know the support is there.

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Until then, just do the obvious -
Divide up the huge file you are trying to flash into pieces small enough to flash between battery re-charges.
The posted report tells you where to re-start the download at in both the flash address and the file.
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Old 10-02-2012, 09:06 AM   #7
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If you are running ubuntu, I suspect that nmcli is dropping your USB connection. I uninstalled mine to avoid dropped connections (but now I must manually connect to the network after reboot). Alternatively, check out my mntusb script...
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Old 10-05-2012, 06:05 AM   #8
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Do you know any nice tool to divide image file?
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Someone posted an image of attaching batteries to a completely dead 3 to fix exactly this issue. might be worth a search for that.

Not sure how to fulfil your slicing idea but doubtless it could be done. with the right numbers, but I have to say: I like the way you think : )

The battery thing looked pretty easy.

EDIT: Found it https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=584

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Old 10-05-2012, 06:19 AM   #10
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Thanks, I will try with replacing battery Great idea!
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well... be careful to test the values and don't short it out or spill tea on it.

My best advice good luck
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Do you know any nice tool to divide image file?
dd is the traditional *nix tool.
just use the "skip" and "seek" options as required.

The posted log tells you where to make the first cut - a few transfers before something times out. The log also lists the updated starting address(es).
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