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Old 05-03-2010, 10:41 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by JohnnyTToxic View Post
It's funny you should ask; I was thinking of putting up a post explaining how you can do it very easily in the hopes that someone who got the K2i update for 2.5 would stumble across it and contact me.

All you have to do is run a file recovery program "Recuva" by Piriform works best. When you get the automatic update over the air, the .bin file is downloaded to the root of your kindle and when the update is installed, the .bin file is automatically deleted.

With any file system when things are deleted they are never truly gone until the physical location on the drive has another file written over it. When you delete something, the system just deflags that file location and file name, saying there is nothing here, feel free to put any new files at this location. Until that happens, you can run file recovery programs with a fair chance of recovering it.

In short, if someone gets the update for K2i, dl Recuva for free, snag the recovered .bin file (if you're not sure, snag all files with .bin at the end) as soon as possible so that location doesn't accidentally get a file placed on top of it.

If you can't figure it out, get in touch with me and I'll walk you through it and then post it up here for everyone else to enjoy.
Thanks, now I get it.
I thought you'd found it yourself on the web.
I can't use Whispernet (US versions) here in Germany. So either I have to wait for my next trip to the US or have to download manually from Amazon or someone else. Amazon, for whatever reason, doesn't seem to put the updates on their website anymore. Do they want to encourage all the non-US users to buy international versions? But what about the tons of Americans, who already stated being out ouf reach of any reliable connection?

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