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Old 04-29-2017, 09:04 AM   #18
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No.*
That only copies part of the USB user storage, as written in step 13.

Please wait before melting down your Kindle, it needs to still run to get the information you might need when you swap out the motherboards.

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*) That is how to recover the file used to install the initial, production line testing, firmware build. The ones found in step #3 of the current jailbreak.

Note: That method no longer works, Amazon/Lab126 protected themselves from our recovering the file.

Note 2: Scroll down to the second post.
See where the bundle and bundle type is displayed in the output of KindleTool?
The recovered file is a: "FB02 recovery" package - which is why it installs when used in the jailbreak.
The firmware versions: 5.8.8 and 5.8.9 can no longer install a "FB02" type of package.

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But thanks for the link, that (and threads it links to) has information I can use this weekend.

We (the developers) have decided not to give Lab126 any more of those detailed descriptions of what we know about their system.

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