Totally Bricked?

[nicnic2001]

Hello there,

I'm Nick and I'm new to this kind of stuff, I first jailbroke my Kindle Touch 2 yesterday night and already I think I have bricked it. I have researched over the internet for my situation but I cannot find a fix.

I was looking around diags and went into a sub-menu and clicked something along the lines of "EXIT-DIAGS" this bought my kindle to the boy under the tree screen with text: "DIAGS EXIT Please use serial port". I researched this and found that holding down the power button gets you out of this, which it did.

This is where my problem starts.

Then I was looking around diags again and I accidentally clicked something like "EXIT-DIAGS FASTBOOT". It came up with "DIAGS EXIT Please use serial port"
This time the holding-down-power-button-for-40-seconds did not work. I connected my kindle to my PC and nothing, then while my Kindle was connected to my PC, I held down the power button and this is what happened:

The Power/Charging LED flashed 5 times then my computer detected the Kindle as an unknown device. The Kindle stays 'detected' for a few seconds then it disappears from device manager along with the windows disconnect sound. I tried this again and the LED blinked, stayed alive for a few seconds and then disappeared as if it was disconnected.

I tried KuBrick which did not work and I don't know what else to do. Probably all of you in here know more than me so what are my options?
And am I permanently bricked?

Really, any help appreciated

Nick

[Cinisajoy]

Can you please plug it into a wall charger until one of the experts arrives?
Thank you.

[nicnic2001]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Can you please plug it into a wall charger until one of the experts arrives?
Thank you.

Plugged in. Thanks.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by nicnic2001

Hello there,

I'm Nick and I'm new to this kind of stuff, I first jailbroke my Kindle Touch 2 yesterday night and already I think I have bricked it. I have researched over the internet for my situation but I cannot find a fix.

I was looking around diags and went into a sub-menu and clicked something along the lines of "EXIT-DIAGS" this bought my kindle to the boy under the tree screen with text: "DIAGS EXIT Please use serial port". I researched this and found that holding down the power button gets you out of this, which it did.

This is where my problem starts.

Then I was looking around diags again and I accidentally clicked something like "EXIT-DIAGS FASTBOOT". It came up with "DIAGS EXIT Please use serial port"
This time the holding-down-power-button-for-40-seconds did not work. I connected my kindle to my PC and nothing, then while my Kindle was connected to my PC, I held down the power button and this is what happened:

The Power/Charging LED flashed 5 times then my computer detected the Kindle as an unknown device. The Kindle stays 'detected' for a few seconds then it disappears from device manager along with the windows disconnect sound. I tried this again and the LED blinked, stayed alive for a few seconds and then disappeared as if it was disconnected.

I tried KuBrick which did not work and I don't know what else to do. Probably all of you in here know more than me so what are my options?
And am I permanently bricked?

Really, any help appreciated

Nick

First, do as Cinisajoy wrote - hook it to a wall charger now.

The Kindles only have a few hours of battery run-time, so don't take a chance of the battery being over-discharged.

- - - - -

You are faced with several choices -
Sell it as needing repair -
Sell your Windows installation -

Run a Linux LiveCD on your computer if you can, if you don't have Linux already installed.

First, try putting the DO_FACTORY_RESTORE flagname file at the top of visible USB storage during the few seconds the Kindle has USB storage exported during its boot sequence.
All uppercase, no extension, no contents.
Ref: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=223067

Note 1: Windows may not respond quickly enough for you to do that.
Note 2: The Kindle has a boot retry counter, probably set to 4 tries.
You exceed that number of retries - you no longer have any choices.

If the above does not work, or you can't get the empty filename written in time, then follow the directions, use the serial port to exit diags.

Lots written here about using the serial port.

Avoid off-site Kindle directions, they are usually out of date.

[nicnic2001]

Originally Posted by knc1

First, do as Cinisajoy wrote - hook it to a wall charger now.

The Kindles only have a few hours of battery run-time, so don't take a chance of the battery being over-discharged.

- - - - -

You are faced with several choices -
Sell it as needing repair -
Sell your Windows installation -

Run a Linux LiveCD on your computer if you can, if you don't have Linux already installed.

First, try putting the DO_FACTORY_RESTORE flagname file at the top of visible USB storage during the few seconds the Kindle has USB storage exported during its boot sequence.
All uppercase, no extension, no contents.
Ref: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=223067

Note 1: Windows may not respond quickly enough for you to do that.
Note 2: The Kindle has a boot retry counter, probably set to 4 tries.
You exceed that number of retries - you no longer have any choices.

If the above does not work, or you can't get the empty filename written in time, then follow the directions, use the serial port to exit diags.

Lots written here about using the serial port.

Avoid off-site Kindle directions, they are usually out of date.

Thanks for the quick reply, because Windows doesn't have the drivers for the kindle, it doesn't detect USB storage so would Linux be any different?
Nick

[knc1]

Linux has no problems recognizing Linux.

[nicnic2001]

Originally Posted by knc1

Linux has no problems recognizing Linux.

Fair enough

Will get back to you.

[nicnic2001]

knc1, thank you!. My kindle is now unbricked.

For anyone with same problem this is what I did:

1. sudo apt-get install mono-complete libmono-2.0-1
2. Go follow this: http://www.mobileread.mobi/forums/sh...d.php?t=231823