Thread: Kindle PW3 with 5.12.4 firmware - problems and solutions
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Old 07-11-2020, 09:57 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
Presumably if 5.12.4 is really bad for PW3, then Amazon ought to produce a special 5.12.3.1 or something that is recognised as an upgrade to 5.12.4 so the "victims" can go "back". There are reasons to do with databases why you might need a special version of an older FW to be able to go back, one that at install "understands" a later database and fixes up somehow so it will work with older FW.

So it doesn't surprise me that you can't load earlier FWs, unless there was a delete database and everything, an "ultimate" factory reset.
Not every update uses a different database. So not every downgrade would need a reset.

The solution would be for Amazon to come out with 5.13.1 for the PW3 and if it's OK, then EOL the PW3.
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