First time I actually entered a raffle and won anything. And I've wanted an e-book reader for months
So I'm apparently staring at
Xfbdev and
awesome when I look at the UI on this thing. Wow. That really messes with my head, partially because I've never thought of
awesome in this kind of context, and partially because using that approach just feels... really, really messed up in a "nothanksI'llpassoneverworkingatLab126" kind of way.
Anyway, I guess my first instinct was "Meh. I can haz
real access?"
I don't want to physically open it up all at once though, not without taking a bit of time to consider everything first and make sure I don't ruin or break anything.
On the other hand, I have something of a bit of time on my hands generally speaking, so it makes most sense to me to add to the list of eyes who've looked through the firmware, and due to the diametric absence of risk in this endeavor this is obviously favorable to reaching for a guitar pick. :P
So, does anyone already have some dumps of 5.6.1.0.6 around?
I'm not sure how this works; if you share via PM by all means go ahead and send me a message. :P
Some info about vintage/lineage:
- Its serial number starts with 90C6
- "Firmware version: 5.6.1.0.6 (2588930001)"
- I won it at CeBIT Australia
Also, when I did the first reboot,
after I finished setting up an Amazon account and registering it to that account, it was all like "Hi Deepak!"
One
and a
2nd reboot later, it successfully figured out my name. :P
So obviously it was either a QA pull, refurbished, or similar. The case, display, etc are all in perfect condition though, so I have zero problem with that.
Also, ENABLE_DIAGS isn't working. Specifically...
# mount /dev/sd_ /mnt/tmp
# touch /mnt/tmp/ENABLE_DIAGS
# umount /mnt/tmp
That ^ (where _ is intended to represent a token placeholder) does zero. No noticeable effect. I'm supposed to see a menu, right?
Oh... and... I'm reasonably sure it
wasn't running the absolute-latest firmware in the box...... eheheh. I never thought to learn the jailbreak scene before feeding it Wi-Fi. Go me!
- i336_