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Originally Posted by hjalfi
Good news! I scored a free Kindle PaperWhite!
Bad news! It's free because it's broken.
I believe this is a PW1; the pictures of the inside certainly match. It's third hand from somebody who got it from somebody. The screen's frozen at the book reader page (showing Atlas Shrugged...).
When connected to power, the orange light comes on, but nothing otherwise happens. If I hold the power button down for 30 seconds the light goes off, to come back on again when I release the power; and sometimes (but not always) the computer I plug it into show USB error messages indicating that it's on the bus but is not accepting an address.
My assumption, therefore, is that it's getting partway through kernel boot and then panicking.
The next step is to hook up the serial port and see what it says. However, given the unutterable tinyness of the serial pads, and my not-very-good soldering skills (do I *really* need to solder to the *bottom* of that surface mount resistor? https://www.mobileread.com/forums/att...8&d=1352503423) I thought I'd better check first:
* Has anyone figured out a way to get the PW1 into USB Recovery or Fastboot mode without needing serial port access?
The light going off after holding the power button down suggests it's waiting for someone to press the magic key. Which, of course, the PW1 doesn't have. Are there a couple of pads to short, or something?
(Also, if anyone can suggest anything else to do before I wreck the thing, I'd be very grateful --- it's probably suffered hardware failure and is beyond hope anyway, but it'd be interesting to try.)
(Also, is that an unpopulated micro-SD card reader on the edge of the motherboard? Hmm...) |
Don't guess at the model, it does make a difference.
*1 As suggested above, leave it on a wall charger for a few days.
**days**
(It may be trying to re-cover a bad file system, which on eMMC can be really slow.)
*2 Try forcing the "DO_FACTORY_RESTORE" trigger name onto the USB storage.
Examples posted here recently for Linux,Mac,Windoze.
*3 No, you don't have to solder to the resistor, you solder to the pad very close to it.
If your hot soldering skills are not up to the task, see my recent "Paint and Play" thread.
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And since I am in this thread, anyway, I might as well hijack it now rather than fix my broken signature link:
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Strange it is to be beside you
Many years and tables turned
You'd probably not believe me
If I told you all I've learned
And it is very, very weird indeed
To hear words like forever plead
Those ships run through my mind, I cannot cheat
It's like looking in the teacher's face complete
I can say nothing to you but repeat what I heard
That love hack is just a four-letter word
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