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				How to repair kpw1 with rescue mode?
			 
			
			
			My kindle paperwhite 1st gen shows it need to be repaired. 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
	I can still enter rescue mode, and I tried update firmware with 5.4.4.2 and 5.3.5,5.3.1. They do not help.  | 
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			I repaired it with this magic command 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0p3 bs=4K count=1K from https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=170929  | 
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			What did you mean by "rescue mode"? Diags and enable USB store for file transfer?
		 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
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