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Originally Posted by SenorClean
It sounds like this is more of a mess than it was with the PW3..
This is the kindle that bricked when taken to PNG - something came over the cellular network and is preventing it from booting. It hadn't been flashed with anything wild - so I had hoped a factory reset would fix it. The PW3 I had which suffered the same fate is working fine after a 'fresh' flash.
DO_FACTORY_RESTORE doesn't seem to be doing anything - does this still work in the androidized models? Or is mine just crashing too early in the boot sequence?
Is there any other way I can factory reset? Nuke a particular partition from fastboot maybe?
There is also that mystery image from the PW3 thread - https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...3&postcount=10 - part of me wants to try flashing that, but I don't want to make things worse than they already are. |
You do have access to a Linux box (other than just Kindles), don't you?
Mystery image:
*) Use Kindletool to convert (just kindletool on command line gives help file).
*) Remove the rootfs.img file from the converted *.tar.gz compressed archive.
*) Create a new mount point (/mnt/pw4 would do nicely)
*) Mount that image (mount rootfs.img /mnt/pw4 <- all that is required of a modern Linux)
*) Make /mnt/pw4 the current directory (cd /mnt/pw4)
Everything in the file system below that new mount point is the Kindle's root file system image - enjoy.
If you want to actually RUN binaries of that file system image - -
Pick your favorite Linux distribution -
Enable qemu-user-binfmt and gemu-user-static of your distro -
(probably good to pick up a few how-tos at your local distro's forum)
How when you execute an ARMxx binary, the Linux system will just do it. Even if you are running an Intel x64 system.
And yes, you can also enable ARMxx-Java so you can play with the Kindle's GUI stuff.
But just viewing with a text editor scripts and such will give you a lot of information.
If you only have access to Windows, you are s.o.l. for any of the above.
(Yes, Virginia, there is a
but you will not find him on Windows)