Thread: Tutorial boot kindle into android
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Old 08-14-2021, 09:16 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by thewindowsteam View Post
Can anyone help me know what those commands mean?
Cool stuff, thanks for sharing. After a quick read of the link you provided, it looks like you need to mount the filesystem image on your PC, patch out some verification checks then flash the modified filesystem to the device. You should have done this instead of flashing the unmodified filesystem - it's going to be a pain (but not impossible) to recover your device now.

You probably need to create a mount point if you're stuck mounting the filesystem image:
Code:
mkdir /tmp/system
sudo mount -o loop -t ext4 esystem.bin /tmp/system
It's always interesting to see what the Kindle hackers over in China are capable of. Creating an entire replacement operating system takes a lot of skill and they're way ahead of us in that regard - we could learn a lot from them.

I've got a spare KT2 that should be compatible with this project so I'll give those instructions a go. The android version is ancient and I wouldn't be surprised if the filesystem is riddled with malware but I'm very curious about how it all works.
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