06-15-2012, 04:44 AM | #16 |
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How do you know if the seller got it legally or not?
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06-15-2012, 04:57 AM | #17 |
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Do you have any news?
I have bought Demo DX also and i want to reprogram it via serial port. Are you succeded with it? THe main problem is to obtain valid serial number for global wireless |
06-15-2012, 05:02 AM | #18 | |
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06-15-2012, 10:57 AM | #19 | |
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In general (where I live) you can copy anything for your own use, but you cannot sell or distribute your copy. It gets complicated with encrypted stuff, because cracking the encryption to modify the image can violate the DMCA, but using an unmodified encrypted image is okay (as long as you do not distribute copies of it). The kindle images are not encrypted, so for personal use you can modify them and use them on your own devices. The "legal" way is to copy an image from another device that you own (or borrow a donor device from a friend). I did that to debrick one of my K4s with an image from my other K4. I had problems registering it with amazon, but a tech at amazon registered it for me (which somehow made the special offers go away). The only problem I see with that on your demo DX is the serial number may be registered at amazon as a demo device, and that serial number may not be allowed to use 3G until you register it. Registering it may require technical assistance from amazon. You may need to "talk nice" to the amazon tech to achieve success. Last edited by geekmaster; 06-15-2012 at 11:02 AM. |
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06-15-2012, 11:08 AM | #20 | |
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Where the issue lies here is that a Demo Kindle has never been licensed to run the retail firmware. Does the buyer have the legal right to install the retail firmware on it? It's a grey area, at best. It may very well not be legal to do so. |
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06-15-2012, 11:17 AM | #21 | |
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Another possible problem is that demo units sometimes contain defective hardware that is not used by the demo software. They need to do SOMETHING with factory rejects, after all... And the 3G modem card may be missing as well. You may need to remove the back cover to check. P.S. I have noticed that some recent store demo eInk readers (Kindle Touch and Nook Simple Touch) do not even have an eInk display in them. They just have a sample screen printed on PAPER mounted behind the glass display surface. Last edited by geekmaster; 06-15-2012 at 01:33 PM. |
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06-15-2012, 05:23 PM | #22 |
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You're right. Any ideas on how I can get Duokan up and running without accessing the Kindle to complete the install?
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06-15-2012, 05:39 PM | #23 |
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I'm not interested in making this demo model fully functional. All I want is to get it to read PDF files, no wireless, no 3G, no Amazon/Kindle account. I just received Michael Hart's (inventor of the e-book in 1971, and founder of The Gutenberg Project - passed away recently) Kindle DX this morning, so I don't need another fully functional DX. I'll be working on the demo DX this weekend, and let you know about my progress, if any...
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06-15-2012, 07:52 PM | #24 | |
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I already have a 7" kindle, and found it very inconvenient to read pdf files. All I need is a kindle dx that reads pdf files, so I am currently considering the same thing as you do, which is to get a demo kindle dx just working for pdf files. I am wondering if we can just install jailbreak or duokan to make it work? |
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You may need to use the serial port to export the USB drive. |
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06-16-2012, 02:29 PM | #26 |
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Guys, did you tried to connect to 3g using Demo Kindle? On my Kindle Demo 3g works flawless. |
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It also means that you should be able to install a normal firmware image (plus the kernel image, if needed), using the serial port with ymodem protocol. See the "seaniko7 unbricking" youtube video (linked in the Dev Corner master index sticky) to see how to do this. |
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06-16-2012, 04:15 PM | #28 |
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Thank you.
Did you mean this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OCpJbkGb7M It`s for kindle 3, not for dx. |
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Before the "simple debricking" method was developed for K4 and K5, the serial port was the ONLY way to debrick or flash kindle firmware backups (even for the K4 and K5). Last edited by geekmaster; 06-16-2012 at 05:19 PM. |
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