Register Guidelines E-Books Today's Posts Search

Go Back   MobileRead Forums > E-Book Readers > Amazon Kindle > Kindle Developer's Corner

Notices

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 10-06-2015, 11:42 AM   #1
PiTRiS
Junior Member
PiTRiS began at the beginning.
 
Posts: 7
Karma: 10
Join Date: Mar 2012
Device: Kindle 4
Cloning Kindle - docs, collection, reading progress, recents

Hello,

I've just bought a new kindle PW3 and am wondering how to get ALL my data from PW2 to this one.
On Kindle I have a lot stuff, most of it are articles from around the web (DOCS) sent using Send to Kindle, some ebooks in mobi format and something from Amazon.
I tried both these options:
- copy just the documents folder
- copy documents, system and all other folders
from old to new one.

Seems like it's working, just have a few issues:
1) collections and according docs are gone (had to be synced from cloud and only contained books from amazon and converted by amazon using my kindle email
2) read progress is not shown in the main page - progress bar is just empty. After opening the book, the progress is shown right and after returning to the main screen, the bar is refreshed for the opened book and shows progress perfectly
3) sorting by recent is gone completely. The books are unsorted.

Especially issue 2 and 3 combined means I'm complete mess in articles - cannot see which ones I read and which ones i didn't. And there are tens or maybe hundreds of those.

I guess there is some internal database which cannot be copied, which stores these settings. Is there someone who can help how to get this right?

Thank you!
PiTRiS is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-06-2015, 12:50 PM   #2
knc1
Going Viral
knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
knc1's Avatar
 
Posts: 17,212
Karma: 18210809
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Central Texas
Device: No K1, PW2, KV, KOA
Are both your pw-2 and pw-3 running the same firmware release version? I.E: 5.6.5
This is so we can be sure there are not any database differences between the two devices.

The 'missing' information is stored in /var/local.
You will need either ssh/telnet access or kTerm.
For either of those, you will have to jailbreak both devices.

So be sure you have the most recent jailbreak installed on both devices **before** upgrading them to 5.6.5

Then it should be possible to copy the files in /var/local from one device to another.
knc1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Advert
Old 10-06-2015, 01:16 PM   #3
PiTRiS
Junior Member
PiTRiS began at the beginning.
 
Posts: 7
Karma: 10
Join Date: Mar 2012
Device: Kindle 4
Never jailbroke kindle before Ok, I'll look into that, at least now I know where to look.
And yes, both are on the same firmware.

Thank you very much. Guess there is no jailbreak-less solution? I'm going to study up on it

EDIT: FW is the latest 5.6.5
PiTRiS is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-06-2015, 01:49 PM   #4
knc1
Going Viral
knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
knc1's Avatar
 
Posts: 17,212
Karma: 18210809
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Central Texas
Device: No K1, PW2, KV, KOA
Quote:
Originally Posted by PiTRiS View Post
EDIT: FW is the latest 5.6.5
You will have to either wait for the 'closed Kindle' jail break to be released, or jail break over the serial port.

= = = =

Pushing everything on the one device to the 'cloud' and re-loading it from the 'cloud' with the other device **might** also sync your bookmarks, annotations, etc.
knc1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-07-2015, 03:18 AM   #5
eschwartz
Ex-Helpdesk Junkie
eschwartz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.eschwartz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.eschwartz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.eschwartz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.eschwartz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.eschwartz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.eschwartz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.eschwartz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.eschwartz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.eschwartz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.eschwartz ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
eschwartz's Avatar
 
Posts: 19,421
Karma: 85400180
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity
Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)
Annotations should sync through the cloud, as long as the books were sent through Amazon's PDOC service (or were purchased from them).

Also, if your Amazon books are DRMed, you will find they don't open on the new device
cf. https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com
eschwartz is offline   Reply With Quote
Advert
Old 10-07-2015, 06:07 AM   #6
PiTRiS
Junior Member
PiTRiS began at the beginning.
 
Posts: 7
Karma: 10
Join Date: Mar 2012
Device: Kindle 4
Quote:
Originally Posted by knc1 View Post
You will have to either wait for the 'closed Kindle' jail break to be released, or jail break over the serial port.

= = = =

Pushing everything on the one device to the 'cloud' and re-loading it from the 'cloud' with the other device **might** also sync your bookmarks, annotations, etc.
Was doing some research and went to this artile - http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...TxX5K9UAOD8CSZ

Isn't it possible to use kubrick (or other tool) to get to the file system via diagnostics?
PiTRiS is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-07-2015, 09:12 AM   #7
knc1
Going Viral
knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.knc1 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
knc1's Avatar
 
Posts: 17,212
Karma: 18210809
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Central Texas
Device: No K1, PW2, KV, KOA
Quote:
Originally Posted by PiTRiS View Post
Was doing some research and went to this artile - http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/forums/kindleqna?ie=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1GLDPZMNR1X53&cdThread =TxX5K9UAOD8CSZ

Isn't it possible to use kubrick (or other tool) to get to the file system via diagnostics?
Check the date on that article - it is about a K5.
Or, read the title of Kubrick, you claimed to have a PW-2 and PW-3.

Translation:
The only known way to get any of the touch screen devices newer than a K5 into downloader mode (or fastboot) is to use the installed u-boot.
Which in turn means having access to the serial port.

But if you have access to the serial port, you can fix it without the help of anything other than the available command line.
knc1 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-07-2015, 07:19 PM   #8
PiTRiS
Junior Member
PiTRiS began at the beginning.
 
Posts: 7
Karma: 10
Join Date: Mar 2012
Device: Kindle 4
Yeah, thought. Anyways thank you. Already passed the old one on, as this was not worth waiting/hussle. Hope it saves someone like me struggle next time
PiTRiS is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Converting AZW back to PDF and/or reading personal docs in Kindle PC app? Llleo Amazon Kindle 36 10-22-2016 03:11 AM
Update Kindle Paperwhite reading progress to goodreads KatieKaliber Plugins 5 03-02-2016 06:04 AM
Q: Kindle app cloning with diff package name qna Android Devices 3 07-19-2015 07:35 PM
Transferring all books and saved data/reading progress to new kindle? hydin Amazon Kindle 3 12-27-2014 03:25 AM
Kindle Reading Progress the_callant Devices 0 10-06-2013 04:32 AM


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 09:22 PM.


MobileRead.com is a privately owned, operated and funded community.