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kindlethai · 05-23-2009, 07:13 AM

Hi all,

This is my first post on mobileread so my apology if you've already know about it. Anyway, I have an unregistered Kindle2 and supposedly have no way to register it via Whispernet as I live in Bangkok. The "setting" menu won't allow anything beyond "registering your kindle" - including the update firmware command- to be usable unless you've registerd the thing first. So by defalut, I can't get the new firmware (2.0.3-mine was 2.0) to be installed on it. Right?. Well, may be not.

Today I accidentally found a workaround. I downloaded K2 Firmware 2.0.3 and transferred it to my K2's root directory via USB. Then I unmounted the K2 disk, putting it out of disk mode. I disconnect the microUSB socket and re-connect it. This time the Kindle won't access disk mode immediately. I left it there for a couple of minutes until the Kindle went to sleep. This is when the seemingly weird thing happened. After the Kindle went to sleep and the screensaver showed (in my case, Mark Twain) imagery, then the screen flickered once and the firmware update process begun all by itself! I was a bit surprised but I let the process go on anyway. After a few minutes, the update was complete and the unit restarted. Voila! it shows 2.0.3 (32761024) and the bottom the "setting" page. Everything works fine.

So that's how it happened. I supposed after you unmount the Kindle disk from your computer, you can just reconnect it and put it to sleep to force the update to start without having to wait for it to go to sleep by itself.

Any of you dare try this and success, let me know too. Thanks everyone!

05-23-2009, 07:13 AM	#1
kindlethai Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Device: K2	Updating an unregistered K2 Firmware Hi all, This is my first post on mobileread so my apology if you've already know about it. Anyway, I have an unregistered Kindle2 and supposedly have no way to register it via Whispernet as I live in Bangkok. The "setting" menu won't allow anything beyond "registering your kindle" - including the update firmware command- to be usable unless you've registerd the thing first. So by defalut, I can't get the new firmware (2.0.3-mine was 2.0) to be installed on it. Right?. Well, may be not. Today I accidentally found a workaround. I downloaded K2 Firmware 2.0.3 and transferred it to my K2's root directory via USB. Then I unmounted the K2 disk, putting it out of disk mode. I disconnect the microUSB socket and re-connect it. This time the Kindle won't access disk mode immediately. I left it there for a couple of minutes until the Kindle went to sleep. This is when the seemingly weird thing happened. After the Kindle went to sleep and the screensaver showed (in my case, Mark Twain) imagery, then the screen flickered once and the firmware update process begun all by itself! I was a bit surprised but I let the process go on anyway. After a few minutes, the update was complete and the unit restarted. Voila! it shows 2.0.3 (32761024) and the bottom the "setting" page. Everything works fine. So that's how it happened. I supposed after you unmount the Kindle disk from your computer, you can just reconnect it and put it to sleep to force the update to start without having to wait for it to go to sleep by itself. Any of you dare try this and success, let me know too. Thanks everyone!