Thread: Rescue Pack for Paperwhite and Touch
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Old 11-02-2012, 04:56 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by eureka View Post
With someone brave and patient enough and proficient in electronics, it would be possible to take a bruteforce way from other side: disassembe PW, make sure that i.MX508 is stiill used, look into Reference Manual for a pin responsible for initiating USB Downloader mode, track the way from that pin to something. Then there will be a hard part find how to use this something to initiate USB downloader mode or finally confirm that this mode is practically "disabled for consumer" on PW.
That sounds like a job for supermanknc1!

EDIT: Now, if we can just convince knc1 to stop waiting for a free PW from amazon, and just fork over some of his spare cash...
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