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Originally Posted by rea5245
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More complications: I had installed Kite earlier, and it looks as if it's still there. If I delete ondrop and onboot directories and reboot, the directories are re-created. Basically, I'd like to get this Kindle back to it's factory state.
Can someone offer some advice? Why won't it go into USB download mode? Is there another reason SSH might not have worked?
Thank you,
Bob
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"USB downloader mode" is burned into the on-chip rom during manufacture of the SoC.
It is hard to hurt it, but the switches you have to use may be broken or stuck.
The symptoms you list seem like you had SSH set-up incorrectly.
I.E: you where pinging your own PC.
There are two ends to the USB cable, each end has a different address, re-read the directions to sort out what you did differently.
Kindles will often not "switch modes" from USB mass storage to USB networking while the cable is plugged in.
That is probably also part of your problems.
Have you tried the directions about putting a Kindle back into the 'as shipped' state?
Doing a 'factory reset' will get you close to that condition.
But of course, the people at the factory do not know how to 'reset' the things of ours that you put on it.
Also, the problem with 're-appearing' directories very likely means the flash chip is bad.
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K4's are old devices, you may just have one that is worn out.