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Old 12-01-2011, 09:30 PM   #148
ramirami
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Device: Kindle Touch
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Originally Posted by geekmaster View Post
It sure looks like Rx, Tx and GND (not necessarily in that order).

Those pins look like the spring loaded pins on a Palm m505 charging cradle (except not as many pins). They may be flexible to keep contact with a ribbon cable.

It even looks like a thin flat flex cable could be slid in the over those pins without removing the cover.

So, my "educated" guess is that you do not need a connector, but that you would slide between the cover and the connector pins a flat flex cable like this:
http://www.ocp.com/ffc/index.html
What happend when you were connected with serial connection in oldest kindle version.

What did you see?
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