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Originally Posted by geekmaster
I have seen discussions of that, but it seems they could easily defeat that method. They have deleted books off people's kindles, after all. And it may be dependent on firmware versions (and they have modified downloadable firmware without changing the URL or the filename). However, while it works now, perhaps airplane mode can be off. The only risk is that you may need to brush up on your soldering skills, eh?  |
1) The command to delete (unlink) a file and to delete a directory are not the same.
2) Yes, this is not proof against being over-ridden.
In fact, some firmware's can defeat it, most can't.
3) Since it depends on the firmware version **installed** (not the firmware version to be installed) - we find people willing to test this for each version.
They make this file addition and then intentionally expose their Kindle to the OTA update process.
No chance of needing soldering skills, the worst that can happen is the Kindle will OTA update.
So the testing is done by people who are intending to update (later) anyway but are willing to give this a try for a period of time.
You want to see your Kindle really get its panties in a bunch?
Put a directory named:
testWrite.txt
in the highest level of visible USB storage.
Then watch the logs (;dm).
No chance of needing soldering skills for that one either - -
The system is built to survive not having a writable /mnt/us/*
It is just that it doesn't like it very much.