So you know how you've all read a thousand posts that start with "I used to have a Kindle 3 and......sat in a drawer for a long time.....tried to start it up again.....only shows the empty battery screen.....tried soft reset......had to do a hard reset.....etc..."?
Just substitute one of those. For the first part of this post. You've heard it all before.
Now for the (somewhat) novel stuff--I've done, so far as I can tell, about ten thousand different troubleshooting and recovery things to try to get this darn thing working again. Some of my greatest hits:
- called customer support -- no dice
- replaced the battery and charged it -- nope
- ALL the resets -- did nothing
- shorted across the reset terminals on the PCB for the device -- bupkes
- put .bin files GALORE in the root directory in recovery mode and restarted -- NO
It will go to recovery mode. When I exit recovery mode it starts to restart, I get the progress bar, and then before it gets halfway full it goes back to the empty battery screen.
I've been trying to figure out how to jailbreak the thing to see if I can get SOME use out of it (I don't have the necessary TTL cable for any of those methods), and the non-serial options involve modifying the existing filesystem. But here's the thing: it doesn't seem to have a filesystem. When I open the device to view files when it's connected to my computer in recovery mode, the drive is empty.
I've checked for hidden files and even tried looking at the partitions. There's one visible partition that is 3GB, and that's it. And it's empty. (Well
there's your problem, you might be saying...)
What I'm trying to figure out is if I can get ahold of a disk image or something of ALL of the files that would normally be on that primary partition and copy it over manually. Does that exist? Is it even possible? Would it even work?
Or did I miss something else?
Thank you for any insight you may have.