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Thank you so much ixtab for saving my Touch's life. This morning I cast what I thought would be my last forlorn look at the "Your Kindle Needs Repair" message on my three year old Kindle Touch before having to again part with more cash for at least a refurbished Kindle. Thanks to your guide however, my Touch is now back like new. And it was such a close call. I almost gave up on Kubrick before it went on to come up trumps for me.

I have a mid-2010 MacBookPro running Windows 7 32-bit via Boot Camp. I had already tried a number of debricking solutions to no avail. My Touch had been stuck for months on a full screen "Your Kindle Needs Repair" message. I'm convinced that what went wrong was that I used up too much of the Kindle Touch's storage space. The device was crammed full of the blogs and articles and books that I ceaselessly send to it but had never gotten round to clearing up or removing from it. There cannot have been more than about 100mb (at most) of its 3gb of memory still available when I last checked. Anyway, about six months or so ago, the Touch froze while I was using it. On that occasion my usual solve-all (the twenty second hold of the power button) did not have the desired effect and after restarting, the device informed me that my Kindle needs repair.

So it was that this weekend I finally set about trying to fix my Touch. My first port of call was Amazon Support, whose idea of help was to push me towards a refurbished or new device. I embarked instead on seeking out an unbricking solution from the community at large.

I downloaded the Kubrick Live CD ISO K4/KT image and used OSX's Disk Utility to burn it to a Verbatim DVD-R.

When I first tried Kubrick, I managed the first step of getting my Touch into USB Downloader Mode (green 'Device Ready' message). However on my first few attempts, I could not get anything except the red 'Waiting for Device..." message on the page "Putting device into Fastboot Mode". Eventually though I got the green "Device Ready' confirmation on this page. What I think I was doing wrong was to connect the Touch to my Kubrick-running computer while the "Your Kindle Needs Repair" message was still showing on the Touch. It eventually worked for me after I first long pressed the power button for twenty seconds (to cause the Kindle tree graphic to appear) and then (and only then) followed Kubrick's instructions for connecting the Touch.

The Paperwhite looks nice and all, but from a 'need vs. want' perspective, it is definitely more of a want than a need. My Touch meets my current e-reading requirements more than well and I treated it with care so it's in great shape. Again then, thank you, thank you so much ixtab. You earned your donation from me just now to Big Brother Mouse with flying colours.