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Old 12-03-2013, 12:12 PM   #1603
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Originally Posted by levante View Post
Well, after updating to 5.4.2 and all the stuff I install fonthack and I get... a nice "your kindle needs repair"

But connecting to pc, the usb drive works for a few seconds and thanks to ixtab's trick https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=223067 the kindle is Ok again

I am jailbreaking again
Congrats! You survived your Near Brick Experience.

I wonder: if you pre copy several copies of amazon's firmware update bin in a subfolder and if/when your kindle semi bricks you move it to /mnt/us during the USBMS window (idea being the window may be too short to copy over a large file), will it successfully update and hopefully restore whatever you were messing with?

I don't know why amazon does not have something like iOS DFU mode. Apple is like the biggest control freak in the world and even they provide a way to restore firmware. Ok, maybe they're not doing it for "testers" but personally I've never known anyone who needs to do DFU restore who was not "testing".
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