[mh3f]

I found a Kindle 3, model d00901, with a broken screen in the e-waste bin at work. I took it home and replaced the screen and battery. Unfortunately, those weren't the only issues. It's currently stuck at "Please wait a moment while your Kindle starts up".

I can get to the reset screen by holding the power for 30+ seconds and then pressing Home. I can type at this screen, but pressing DEL or RESET does nothing but go to the "Please wait..." screen indefinitely.

I ran the Kubrick program on it, but it didn't seem to fix it. When it copies the main partition, it completes in 10 seconds while it indicates it may take one to three hours.

I suspect the nv memory may be corrupt. This is the output of the serial port after doing a hard reboot.

Any thoughts on how to get this working again?

mmcblk0: error -110 sending status comand<3>mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/wr0
end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 556611                              
EXT3-fs error (device mmcblk0p1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode bloc1
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty"                                              
mmcblk0: error -110 sending status comand<3>mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/wr0
end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 556610                              
mmcblk0: error -110 sending status comand<3>mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/wr0
end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 556611                              
EXT3-fs error (device mmcblk0p1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode bloc1
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty"                                              
mmcblk0: error -110 sending status comand<3>mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/wr0
end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 556611                              
EXT3-fs error (device mmcblk0p1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode bloc1
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty"                                              
mmcblk0: error -110 sending status comand<3>mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/wr0
end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 556610                              
mmcblk0: error -110 sending status comand<3>mmcblk0: error -110 sending read/wr0
end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 556611                              
EXT3-fs error (device mmcblk0p1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode bloc1
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INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel