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Originally Posted by yifanlu
I hope your tool is properly coded and does not depend on sb_loader/mfgtool. USB hid is a powerful and dangerous tool. I lead you step by step into fixing your device. You sure you can make a tool to do it again without help?
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I am using modified versions of sb_loader and u-boot, which are both open source and freely distributable in modified form. Unlike fastboot, my recovery tool for k4 an touch will not expose potentially dangerous functions.
Software development and debugging are very much like solving a maze puzzle, which requires exploring all possibilites until a solution is found, making educated guesses (i.e. assumptions) to reduce the time needed to solve the puzzle. Although I occasionally spend some time in local minima (i.e. dead end paths), I eventually exhaust those and reach the correct path, leading to a verifiably correct solution. I do my explorations from the bottom up, preferring to build my foundations of knowledge first. This is the way old-school programmers were taught. Modern programming schools usually teach top-down OOP style. Both types are programmers are needed.
I really do appreciate your tips and pointers, and letting me know when I am on a dead end path, so I can save time by changing to an adjacent unexplored path in my quest for understanding and solution of the technical problem that I am studying.
Although your fastboot tool still needs some work, I am very thankful that it works as well as it does, and that it helped me to repair my bricked kindle.
Please make less derogatory questions and comments in the future, to minimize hostility between us. Thanks.