Hi!
We just received today our brand new kindle touch from taobao (Chinese ebay!) and well, the kindle was in Chinese. Seems like it was running some kind of modified firmware (no previous experience with Kindle, so hard to tell if it was far from stock or not...)? Anyhow, it was possible to change the language to English.
That didn't turn out well, now everything is just squares or even nothing at all. As the vendor couldn't provide any information on what he/she did to the poor Kindle, I tried the following:
- Do a factory reset => no change
- Install official 5.1 update from Amazon website. It seems that went well... except that it was still only showing squares
- Get to the diags menu ... and did nothing
Language is OK there
- Try to install the alternative freetypelib from this website, disregarding the warning that it wasn't ready for 5.1 (at this point, I am just assuming we are in 5.1, as I cannot read anything from any menu), but got an update error #3.
I have really no idea what to do. It's not bricked, but obviously, completely unusable.
Thanks for your help, anything would be greatly appreciated!
Guillaume