Hi All,
Just recovered my PW2 from the repair needed screen following bits of advice from the forums here, Thanks to you all
I tried several different ways as I was trying to not lose any personal data, only my last attempt was actually successful and that wiped the device. Trying other methods resulted in various states in which the device was unresponsive to anything other than the serial port. My advice is accept the data loss and recover using the factory image.
BEWARE - FOLLOWING THIS
WILL RESULT IN DATA LOSS AND MIGHT STILL NOT WORK FOR YOU.
ATTEMPT THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK
Here is what eventually worked for me:
1. Solder serial connection
2. Use a USB to TTL adapter and realterm to connect to the Kindle
3. Boot to diagnostic menu: uboot>bootm 0xE41000
4. Download update bin from Amazon
5. In the diagnostic menu start USB mode
6. Rename the update to update.bin and transfer to Kindle over USB
7. Reboot Kindle
8. Setup as new
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