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Old 05-04-2012, 09:36 AM   #1
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Unhappy strange issue of KT

I update my KT to 5.1.0 and it was fine at the begining, (with jailbreak,luncher 1.1.0 and simple screen saver hack)
After several hours ,it's touching control suddenly became mad—— I press the menu and it goes to search, I select books and has no feedback. Clean the screen is no helping. Since the diag mode works fine, I figure it's software issue,so I use dd to clean /var/local and downgrade to 5.0.0, then upgrade to 5.1.0 again.

After these procedures everything works fine for 3 or 4 days then the touch screen became mad again, this time dd is not helping anymore, I try fastboot flash kernel kernel-kt-5.0.0.img and with no luck. The diag mode still works fine so the hardware should be ok, is there any other thing I can do to save my KT? (It can reboot normally,every thing is working other than touching control)

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Old 05-04-2012, 09:48 AM   #2
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everything I have try is here:

================================================== =====
D:\kindletools\debricking\fastboot_win_public>fast boot flash kernel kernel-5.0.0.img
downloading 'kernel'...
OKAY [ 0.345s]
writing 'kernel'...
OKAY [ 0.635s]
finished. total time: 0.979s

D:\kindletools\debricking\fastboot_win_public>fast boot setvar bootmode bootloader
setting 'bootmode' to 'bootloader'...
bootmode bootloader:
finished. total time: 0.012s

D:\kindletools\debricking\fastboot_win_public>

================================================== ============================================

[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0p3 bs=4K
dd: writing '/dev/mmcblk0p3': No space left on device
8193+0 records in
8192+0 records out
33554432 bytes (32.0MB) copied, 0.276325 seconds, 115.8MB/s
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# dd if=/mnt/us/mmcblk0p1-kt-5.0.0.img of=/dev/mmcblk0p1 bs=4K
89600+0 records in
89600+0 records out
367001600 bytes (350.0MB) copied, 145.847002 seconds, 2.4MB/s
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# fsck -text3 /
fsck 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
e2fsck 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
Superblock last mount time (Mon Dec 19 00:55:36 2011,
now = Thu Jan 1 01:08:28 1970) is in the future.
Fix<y>? cancelled!

Superblock last write time (Mon Dec 19 00:55:36 2011,
now = Thu Jan 1 01:08:28 1970) is in the future.
Fix<y>? cancelled!

[root@[192_168_15_244] root]#
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]#
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]#
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# date -s 2012.05.04-21:33
Fri May 4 21:33:00 UTC 2012
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# fsck -text3 /
fsck 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
e2fsck 1.41.10 (10-Feb-2009)
/dev/mmcblk0p1: clean, 5092/11352 files, 219264/350000 blocks
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# exit
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Old 05-04-2012, 11:15 AM   #3
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You need matching partitions and kernels. To go back to 5.0.0 mmcblk0p1 you also need to flash main 5.0.0 kernel (using fastboot).

In the new 5.1.0 main kernel, in the gpl source code there were a lot of changes to the touchscreen driver code. Perhaps there is a bug?
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Old 05-04-2012, 11:40 AM   #4
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I'm using imgs from here
http://gitbrew.org/~dasmoover/kindle/touch/forensic/

kernel-kt-5.0.0.img.gz
mmcblk0p1-kt-5.0.0.img
mmcblk0p2-kt-5.0.0.img

and reset mmcblk0p3 using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0p3 bs=4K

still the same....
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Old 05-04-2012, 11:50 AM   #5
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Wonder if 5.0.4 will be helpful.There's kernel-kt-5.0.4.img.gz in http://gitbrew.org/~dasmoover/kindle/touch/forensic/
but without 5.0.4 p01 & p02,is anyone got dumps of 5.0.4?
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Old 05-04-2012, 11:59 AM   #6
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(It can reboot normally,every thing is working other than touching control)
In your following post, it shows that the system clock is not set.

@GM: Could the mis-set system clock be causing timing problems in resolving the events? (I am only guessing here.)
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Old 05-04-2012, 12:07 PM   #7
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I've set the time,just few lines below.

[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# date -s 2012.05.04-21:33
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I've set the time,just few lines below.

[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# date -s 2012.05.04-21:33
Once the system time is set correctly (as above),
then set the hardware clock from the system time:
hwclock --systohc

There are (or should be) system initialization scripts that take care of these settings, but you may have to poke them in yourself, at least once.

Note: The (very few) Wifi models I have seen get the system time from an Amazon time server - but of course, that takes a Wifi connection.
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Old 05-04-2012, 02:06 PM   #9
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thx for the tip
just have a go:

Code:
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# hwclock -systohc
hwclock: invalid option -- 'y'
BusyBox v1.17.1 (2011-11-03 11:08:48 PDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: hwclock [-r] [-s] [-w] [-l] [-u] [-f FILE]

Query and set hardware clock (RTC)

Options:
        -r      Show hardware clock time
        -s      Set system time from hardware clock
        -w      Set hardware clock to system time
        -u      Hardware clock is in UTC
        -l      Hardware clock is in local time
        -f FILE Use specified device (e.g. /dev/rtc2)
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# date -s 2012.05.05-2:01
Sat May  5 02:01:00 UTC 2012
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# hwclock -w
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# date
Sat May  5 02:01:11 UTC 2012
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]#
Not sure if I'm doing right,still not working.
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Old 05-04-2012, 02:19 PM   #10
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thx for the tip
just have a go:

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[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# hwclock -systohc
hwclock: invalid option -- 'y'
BusyBox v1.17.1 (2011-11-03 11:08:48 PDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: hwclock [-r] [-s] [-w] [-l] [-u] [-f FILE]

Query and set hardware clock (RTC)

Options:
        -r      Show hardware clock time
        -s      Set system time from hardware clock
        -w      Set hardware clock to system time
        -u      Hardware clock is in UTC
        -l      Hardware clock is in local time
        -f FILE Use specified device (e.g. /dev/rtc2)
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# date -s 2012.05.05-2:01
Sat May  5 02:01:00 UTC 2012
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# hwclock -w
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# date
Sat May  5 02:01:11 UTC 2012
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]#
Not sure if I'm doing right,still not working.
My bad - I wasn't referencing the busybox version of hwclock,
but I see you figured out my mistake.

Now the hardware clock (whatever that is in a Kindle SoC) should keep the time between restarts.

May not fix the event recognition but at least fsck should no longer complain about the file system being out of date.

I was working off the observation that the problem only developed after hours or even days of use.
(Clock drift or other clock problems came first to mind.)

Hmm...
What else can change over "normal" operation of hours or days?
Some part of the filesystem "filling up"?

Check the filesystem usage with:
df
You may want to cut&paste the result, some areas will probably report 100% as their "normal" use, making the problem area hard to spot.
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Old 05-04-2012, 02:43 PM   #11
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I actually believe the clock issue is the key before I try since the issue not happen immediately after the flash... sadly it's not working.
driver space seems ok for me..

Code:
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]# df -m
Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                   62        54         6  91% /
tmpfs                      125         0       125   0% /dev
tmpfs                      125         0       125   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p3              31         9        21  30% /var/local
fsp                       3295       607      2688  18% /mnt/us
/dev/loop/0               3295       607      2688  18% /mnt/base-us
[root@[192_168_15_244] root]#
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the first time I got this issue is after I accidently copy someth big to KT and fill it up.It looks fine after I del some files reflash & reupgrade,so I though it's some kind of conf file problem when the /var/local is full.

After that I keep about 1G space empty, but it happen again after days. Not sure if dd will fix filesystem's problem(if there's any), maybe filesystem had broke when I fill it up? I use fsck and diskscan under windows(for /mnt/us) , but it seems ok.

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the first time I got this issue is after I accidently copy someth big to KT and fill it up. It looks fine after I del some files reflash & reupgrade,so I though it's some kind of conf file problem when the /var/local is full.
That looks normal to me also.
I am out of guesses.

Need to wait for GM to review this thread again.
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That looks normal to me also.
I am out of guesses.

Need to wait for GM to review this thread again.
Nothing obvious. This needs a deeper look, but no time right now... Anybody else have clues?
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My guess is on the hardware, sadly. I don't have a touch, but I think I would try and debug input events in diag mode. Is there evtest or a similar tool in the diag mode?
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