07-29-2012, 05:40 PM | #1 |
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Got a Demo Kindle (k5) from work, need to remove demo software.
at work we had a kindle demo but it has the demo software running.
Anyone know if i can wipe it and load the stock software? Thanks, I hate to throw out a perfectly good kindle. |
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It probably is user error but I've used fastboot before with android flashing and never had a issue before with flashing images so I don't think it's the command I'm using.
I'll attempt it again in a few and posts pics of the exact message. The files have not changed name, I downloaded them directly from the links and placed them in the folder. |
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Just saw I'm on the same page, I'm using the tool to get the kindle into fastboot mode.
Once it's in that mode I load up cmd and use fastboot to flash the file. |
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Nevermind, I foudn the reason, I did a DIR scan of the directory and saw that .img ends with .gz Once I added that to the command it flashed. on to the next step.
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hmmm, now i'm stuck on the tree logo. Awesome.
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Okay, so I can boot into the regular Demo mode and i can boot into fastboot, but when I try to boot into diags it just sits at the tree logo.
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.gz is a compressed file. Flashing that put the COMPRESSED file on your mmc, so of course it would get stuck.
You need to decompress it with a tool like 7-zip (or anything else that can extract a .gz file). The uncompressed file should end with .img, which is the file you need to flash. That is the diags partition. The boy under the tree is probably the main partition. You need to boot diags with MfgTool, or by setting bootmode to diags in fastboot. From diags you need to flash main with dd. All according to the instructions. |
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