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Old 01-11-2013, 10:16 PM   #10
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Update: Got serial to work. Tried the level converter, that didn't work for me. Used an arduino to read the serial - that works perfectly. Maybe my converter is dodgy. Stuck a socket on the chassis of my kindle so I can use the serial port all the time.

I have a question - If I have access to the serial port, is my kindle basically unbrickable? I ask this because I am doing all sorts of flashing to try to get android to boot and I don't want to toast my device.
Network boot the experimental kernel and use a network mounted file system.

No other method is safe on an embedded device.

With the serial port connection - you should be able to do the above using u-boot - - either the installed one or a modified one.
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