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Originally Posted by lporter
Hello everyone,
So, during my attempt to port android to the kindle, I succeeded in destroying the little resistors/capacitors near the serial port on my paperwhite (don't solder with caffeine shakes )
When I shorted the pads and connected the PW to a terminal emulator, all I got was garbled text. I guess the kindle needed those little components. Anyone have any idea how to fix this/what those components were?
...now to try to fix the nuked system image another way...
-Lewis
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Which Kindle is this again? A K4?
Good photo of the damaged area of the circuit board please.
Somewhere here, I posted a link to a "HowTo" make a DIY hot air soldering tool - the thing you need for SMD parts.