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curstpriest · 10-16-2010, 10:29 AM

Pretty sure the Kindle devices have a USB fallback which makes them virtually unbrickable, similar to apple's I-devices (i-pad/i-phone-i-pod)

Can't you just force recovery and format/copy new firmware and force reloading of it over usb?

I assume that firmware is just a binfile thrown on the the flash somewhere before the fat partition, you could probably extract/write it yourself if you knew the locations (not 100% sure of this), but that's how you can access firmware in most portable devices with nand/usb fat partitions.

10-16-2010, 10:29 AM	#12
curstpriest Confused Posts: 402 Karma: 5538 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Bay Area Device: Kindle DXG	Pretty sure the Kindle devices have a USB fallback which makes them virtually unbrickable, similar to apple's I-devices (i-pad/i-phone-i-pod) Can't you just force recovery and format/copy new firmware and force reloading of it over usb? I assume that firmware is just a binfile thrown on the the flash somewhere before the fat partition, you could probably extract/write it yourself if you knew the locations (not 100% sure of this), but that's how you can access firmware in most portable devices with nand/usb fat partitions.