Thread: Firmware Update Amazon's Automatic Firmware Updates
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Old 09-23-2010, 12:06 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by flandroid View Post
And oof, really? It wouldn't run a checksum check (or whatever it uses to determine whether the files are kosher) before trying to do anything?
You might have added files which wouldn't be checked. All of firmware files will be checked and the update will fail if they've been altered but they can't guarantee that you've not done something weird to your Kindle.
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