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Old 03-15-2009, 11:27 PM   #1
Osen
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Device: kindle 2
Kindle 2 fried, please help!

Short version:

How can I update my Kindle 2 under recovery mode? I tried the official 2.0.1 update and updates made by igor's tool. None of them worked. Basically after I press 1 in the recovery mode, the firmware update screen was just briefly appeared (<1/2 second), with no advances in the progress bar. And the kindle went back to reboot again. And then it tried to update the firmware and fell into a infinitely reboot loop. The only way out is by forcing into the recovery mode and delete the update bin file.


Long version:

So I was using igor's script to play with my kindle 2. Then I made a bad modification of /usr/java/lib/font.properties. After the update/reboot, it seems that the mobireader app/front GUI kept crashing and reloading, probably due to the bad font.properties definition. I had access to the kindle's disk via usb during all this. So I figured that the main os was still working fine.

Then I thought, no big deal, I'll just update it with another script to roll back the font.properties. Then I was bumped into the aforementioned question. I found that I couldn't update my firmware, despite that I have access to the recovery mode.

Many thanks for any of your input!!

Last edited by Osen; 03-20-2009 at 03:49 PM.
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