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B164D · 01-22-2012, 04:19 PM

OK, let me give some feedback on this. I was using a 32-bit Ubuntu 11.10 which gave the error above. Thank you to geekmaster for telling me I needed a 64 bit version. I made a cd for ubuntu-10.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso got it running, from the cd, on my son's Dinopc Gallant AMD 955 with CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition with Motherboard: Asus M4A87TD USB3. The Kindle was connected to the computer with the cable supplied with the Kindle. I extracted fastboot to the Ubuntu folder, since I couldn't copy it into the home folder. I opened up a terminal and the dialogue was as follows:-

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ./fastboot setvar bootmode main
setting 'bootmode' to 'main'...
bootmode main:
finished. total time: 0.013s
ubuntu@ubunt:~$

The screen on the Kindle then changed to the low battery warning screen. I disconnected the kindle from the computer and put it on charge at the mains. A few minutes later and the screensaver showed up and I was able to use it again. It's exactly as it was before I enabled fastboot.

giorgio130, thank you, your program works. This should help a lot of bricked Kindles come back to life. Would it be possible to compile it to work on 32-bit machines?

01-22-2012, 04:19 PM	#19
B164D Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Scotland Device: Kindle 4 NT	OK, let me give some feedback on this. I was using a 32-bit Ubuntu 11.10 which gave the error above. Thank you to geekmaster for telling me I needed a 64 bit version. I made a cd for ubuntu-10.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso got it running, from the cd, on my son's Dinopc Gallant AMD 955 with CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition with Motherboard: Asus M4A87TD USB3. The Kindle was connected to the computer with the cable supplied with the Kindle. I extracted fastboot to the Ubuntu folder, since I couldn't copy it into the home folder. I opened up a terminal and the dialogue was as follows:- ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo ./fastboot setvar bootmode main setting 'bootmode' to 'main'... bootmode main: finished. total time: 0.013s ubuntu@ubunt:~$ The screen on the Kindle then changed to the low battery warning screen. I disconnected the kindle from the computer and put it on charge at the mains. A few minutes later and the screensaver showed up and I was able to use it again. It's exactly as it was before I enabled fastboot. giorgio130, thank you, your program works. This should help a lot of bricked Kindles come back to life. Would it be possible to compile it to work on 32-bit machines? Last edited by B164D; 01-22-2012 at 04:32 PM.