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Old 11-29-2011, 09:12 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by akleiw View Post
... If you've got Kindle Keyboard, press Home, Menu, Down x 5 times, Center ...
My experience with navigating menus *blind* is that different kindles have different options greyed out, so this may not work.

A more reliable way to get the serial number (text and barcode) with a broken screen is to press Shift-Alt-period (press and hold Shift and Alt keys, press '.', release all keys). This screen displays the serial number in two locations so it *might* be readable even with a "classic" broken screen.

You can take a screen snapshot with Shift-Alt-G (think GIF), or Shift-Alt-H, or (with the launchpad hack installed) triple-shift (press and release shift three times in quick succession).

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