Guess i bricked my Kindle Touch - Help needed :)

mars77 · 03-24-2012, 01:24 PM

my kindle touch is stuck at the screen with the tree saying "please wait while your kindle is being launched". holding down the power button does nothing.

however i can connect it to MFG tool and using the "main" profile i can reboot/awake my kindle and after disconnecting it from usb i can use it as long as i dont restart the kindle, then it is stuck again.

any advice for me? im using a windows pc if that matters, no linux.

ixtab · 03-24-2012, 01:31 PM

Hello again

try this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=170929 . You're much more likely to find the required information there, or to get answers to further questions. BTW, this is also prominently linked from https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kind...ing#Unbricking

Good luck!

mars77 · 03-24-2012, 01:42 PM

thx

dont understand much about what is going on there but posted anyway, maybe someone has the patience to help me out

geekmaster · 03-24-2012, 10:02 PM

If you can boot to main by TEMPORARILY setting bootmode to main, then your bootmode idme var is set to something else (probably fastboot mode).

You can accidentally set it to fastboot mode in diagnostics by selecting the fastboot package in the exit menu.

Previously, the only way out of fastboot was using the fastboot tool to change the idme bootmode var, but now you can do it from diagnostics, either in an SSH shell, or from a RUNME.sh that is launched from diags.

In diags, you can change your bootmode var permanently (until you change it to something else) with:

idme -d --bootmode main

you also need to remove your ENABLE_DIAGS file if you have one, and reboot. You can do these commands:

rm -f /mnt/us/ENABLE_DIAGS
reboot

After you set bootmode to main, it should boot to main without needing to use MfgTool to do a tethered boot.

03-24-2012, 01:24 PM	#1
mars77 Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: kindle touch	Guess i bricked my Kindle Touch - Help needed :) my kindle touch is stuck at the screen with the tree saying "please wait while your kindle is being launched". holding down the power button does nothing. however i can connect it to MFG tool and using the "main" profile i can reboot/awake my kindle and after disconnecting it from usb i can use it as long as i dont restart the kindle, then it is stuck again. any advice for me? im using a windows pc if that matters, no linux.

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03-24-2012, 01:31 PM	#2
ixtab (offline) Posts: 2,907 Karma: 6736094 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: K3, K4, K5, KPW, KPW2	Hello again try this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=170929 . You're much more likely to find the required information there, or to get answers to further questions. BTW, this is also prominently linked from https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kind...ing#Unbricking Good luck!

03-24-2012, 01:42 PM	#3
mars77 Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: kindle touch	thx dont understand much about what is going on there but posted anyway, maybe someone has the patience to help me out

03-24-2012, 10:02 PM	#4
geekmaster Carpe diem, c'est la vie. Posts: 6,433 Karma: 10773670 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Multiverse 6627A Device: K1 to PW3	If you can boot to main by TEMPORARILY setting bootmode to main, then your bootmode idme var is set to something else (probably fastboot mode). You can accidentally set it to fastboot mode in diagnostics by selecting the fastboot package in the exit menu. Previously, the only way out of fastboot was using the fastboot tool to change the idme bootmode var, but now you can do it from diagnostics, either in an SSH shell, or from a RUNME.sh that is launched from diags. In diags, you can change your bootmode var permanently (until you change it to something else) with: idme -d --bootmode main you also need to remove your ENABLE_DIAGS file if you have one, and reboot. You can do these commands: rm -f /mnt/us/ENABLE_DIAGS reboot After you set bootmode to main, it should boot to main without needing to use MfgTool to do a tethered boot.

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