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Just want to report a just completed use of the Kubrick recovery process and that the process is still working fine!
And to say thanks for your good work too!
I have a K4NT that was jail broken and that had Duokan 2013 installed and upgraded to Duokan 2014. I want to get rid of the Duokan software and am going to give KO Reader a try.
I made a Live USB Stick using the download identified in post #1. I am using Mint Linux on a Lenovo T520 laptop and set up a SanDisk 8GB Cruzer USB flash drive as a Live USB Stick using the downloads and process identified in post #1 of this thread.
Mint Linux has an Accessory application named USB Image Writer that was used to make the bootable USB flash drive and I used that to make the bootable flash drive, then I copied the boot.iso image file for debricking K3, K4, and KT devices (also downloaded from post #1) onto the flash drive.
I booted from the flash drive and the Kubrick process unfolded and was pretty easy to follow. If there was a challenging step it was that of manipulating the neccessory Power and 4 Way buttons simultaneously as needed to get the K4NT into the Diagnostics mode. I need more hands and or skinnier fingers...
I followed the step by step instructions carefully, didn't make any choices until I was signalled that the Kindle is ready for it, and it was easy to step through the process. I let it re-write the Kindle 4 image and firmware (4.1.1) and also did the jail break again. Writing the image took a little over 4 minutes and the process went without any hitches and was finished less than 10 minutes.
When I disconnected the Kindle and re-booted the laptop I also powered the K4NT off and then back on again and all my books were still there and all traces of Duokan were gone from the startup process.
When I connected the kindle to the laptop all eight of the folders that had DK_ preceeding their names were still there. And they still contained data and subfolders in some cases and the DK system files.
I assume that I can now delete the DK_ folders, they take up about 127MB of space and if not needed I'll get rid of them.
So I am now back to a K4NT with a jail break. Next I'll install KUAL and then the KO Reader. I tried to install KUAL when I was installing Duokan 2013 but somehow messed up that part of the process and it did not get installed as I moved on to the Duokan install.
Are there any other candidates for software for managing and reading books with a K4?
Jack
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