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Originally Posted by abarthch
Thanks, but I wasn't successful.
However... something happened and now the boot loop is gone. But as soon as I touch the screen to enter the settings menu or try to open book it reboots again. Also the USB mode still doesn't work.
Is there a command I can send over in this state, e.g. to reset the device? I tried to send over the 'cat' line to at least reset the boot counter, but it asked for a password.
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Asking for a password is good. You can compute the password from the serial number (if you recorded it). Rebooting as you described could be low battery, or full /var/local, or a hardware problem. You could try swapping batteries with another device. I do not yet have a PW3 so I cannot easily figure other methods to get past such a problem. The serial number should also be in the log files on the user store partition (i.e. kindle USB drive), if you have momentary access to it during the boot process (but you may need a looping host script to grab it quickly), and you many be much more successful running linux on the host because windows always writes a readyboost temp file on a drive to ask you if you want to use it for readyboost (if it is fast enough), even before you have a chance to access the drive (which sucks if you plan to do data recovery on the device).