amazing! I found a kindle pw2 in the company e-waste with this error and thought it would be a simple battery replacement to fix. I've been "hacking" on it for days and was about to give up. Saw this post and sure enough the thermistor is long gone. I didn't want to order the part and wait a week to try it out so I just soldered a regular 10k resistor (the thermistor would be 10k at about room temp) and booted right up! Unfortunately it turns out there is other damage and the touch screen no longer works. But it's super cool to see it running again!
