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Originally Posted by fulltimer
I am not going to do a Factory Reset on my K3 to test it out but....When I was preparing my wife's K2 to return for warranty replacement the factory reset removed the jailbreak, screensaver, and font hacks as well as all the folders the hacks created and when it restarted was just as it was when we recieved it from Amazon.
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No idea about the K2 but the K3 factory reset doesn't touch the firmware itself and just blows away your settings and contents of the Kindle user store. Some of the hacks which rely on files or directories within the user store will get disabled when this happens but the parts within the firmware area stay there.
The script that gets called to do the factory reset is /usr/sbin/factory_reset
It does the following steps:
1. Stops all the apps.
2. Deletes the test/diagnostic files.
3. Resets the 3G modem to automatically select the correct network.
4. Deletes the contents of /var/local which is where settings are stored.
5. Deletes the contents of /mnt/us which is your user store and what you see when you plug in your Kindle in USB drive mode.
6. Disables diagnostics.
7. Sets the flag that signifies that this Kindle is from the factory and empty.
8. Turns itself off or restarts as requested.