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Lanark1982 · 06-02-2015, 10:31 AM

Background - I have a kindle paperwhite with the screensaver hack. It got drowned after a coffee accident. I dried it out (or thought I had) and a few days later managed to get it to reboot from a reset by holding the power button in for a minute.

It worked for a very short while, but it's now stuck on a screensaver (with a darker line down the left side).

I've tried attaching with a usb cable to a laptop and it can find and search the kindle contents, so I was wondering if there was some way to initiate a hard reset via a USB cable to jump the screen into working again.

Any ideas? I'd hate to have to buy a new one.

06-02-2015, 10:31 AM	#1
Lanark1982 Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2014 Device: Kindle PW2 and a Meebook P78	Help - can I do a hard reboot from usb? Background - I have a kindle paperwhite with the screensaver hack. It got drowned after a coffee accident. I dried it out (or thought I had) and a few days later managed to get it to reboot from a reset by holding the power button in for a minute. It worked for a very short while, but it's now stuck on a screensaver (with a darker line down the left side). I've tried attaching with a usb cable to a laptop and it can find and search the kindle contents, so I was wondering if there was some way to initiate a hard reset via a USB cable to jump the screen into working again. Any ideas? I'd hate to have to buy a new one.