Quote:
Originally Posted by matko
There is one last thing I'd like to try:
Code:
fastboot flash system rootfs.img
(using rootfs.img extracted from 5.10.0.1 factory package)
but this is a one-way step. If it fails, my Kindle will probably be bricked ... |
I was brave/stupid enough to try this today. My kindle is already bricked and amazon have given up on fixing the bug that killed it and refunded me so I'm happy to do risky things if it helps the community.
Code:
mint@mint:~/Downloads/Fastboot-Kindle$ sudo ./fastboot flash system rootfs.img
downloading 'system'...
OKAY [ 27.323s]
writing 'system'...
FAILED (remote: locked command)
finished. total time: 27.331s
& the serial output:
Code:
Starting download of 460800000 bytes
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downloading of 460800000 bytes finished
locked command: flash:system
Seems to me that 'flash' is in fact locked. So unless we can unlock some of these commands somehow, I'm running out of options.
(Maybe fastboot oem unlock / fastboot flashing unlock would work?)
So I'm back to a state where I can mount my FAT32 partition and feed it an update but little else.
I foolishly updated it to 5.11.2 this way (should have tried the latest factory image in hindsight) - so I think I'm out of options unless/until a later factory image comes along.
A bit of a bummer that they're making these things harder to repair. I don't really want to toss this thing in to landfill over a software bug.
Code:
<12>[ 6.686323] ERROR:OTA version is less then current device version
<12>[ 6.686345] ERROR:do_unbundle: validate_version failed.
<12>[ 6.694565] INFO:No uboot image found! skipping uboot installation.
<12>[ 6.694594] INFO:No sbios image found! skipping sbios installation.
<12>[ 6.694612] INFO:No fbios image found! skipping fbios installation.
<12>[ 6.694644] ERROR:Could not unbundle /mnt-us/update_pw4_5.10.1.3_factory.bin,error_code=12
<12>[ 32.108506] /mnt-us/update_pw4_5.10.1.3_factory.bin MD5SUM: 21275d9845c2edd358780df555db3328