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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
The challenge here is finding the right balance between "too much" and "too little" info, and avoiding spoon-feeding and reinventing the wheel. Which is why you can end up with pieces of info scattered in different places. It might look to some extent messy, but if exposed (and followed) properly, that ensures that you get up to date info at every step of the way.
Not everyone is knowledgeable with every cog involved, so deferring to the "tried and true" where applicable helps to ensure accurate info (... and helps keeping it that way as time marches on  ).
In this instance, we've (and by that I mean mostly @knc1 ) tried our best to make sure everything coordinated properly, but it's easy to miss something when you're too close to the thing .
That's one of the reason I've always been wary of third-party documentation: it's frickin' hard to do it right.
Which is why you'll often see @knc1 begin by asking what the user has been reading . |
I get writing and maintaining this is a lot of work and am very appreciative there is someone doing it and doing it so well. Just thought I'd share a couple of the spots where I got caught up - for whatever it is worth.
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Originally Posted by knc1
No.
See how easy it is to misread it?
It is how to get any firmware version for your device.
Getting the current version is as simple as allowing the Kindle to connect to the Internet, as you pointed out.
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Ya, fair enough. At the time, I did actually realize it was for 'picking' the version you want - which may not be the latest.
Honestly, it was combination of thinking I needed to complete step 7 (vs. just waiting for an OTA update), as you do for the first 6 steps and the lack of being able to find the download page mentioned in step 1 combined with seeing the tar.gz files in step 3 that threw me.
Not fully appreciating that only .bin file will 'self install', I just downloaded the tar.gz file and tried giving that a go. Rookie mistake, but we aren't all necessarily familiar with the extensions for the executable vs. source code. I'm guessing there is an explanation for this that I missed as well.
