Newbie kindle user needs some help

[MOSJ]

Hi folks...


I just got my brand new Kindle 4 Black (5th gen) and decided to jailbreak it to put some nice screensavers.

Due some lack of knowledge and excitation, I tried to follow this guy's tutorial to root it, but I didn't care for the fact that the guy's kindle is a 4th gen and its firmware is probably diferent of mine. I was able to follow all the steps until the putty part, where it should connect to the kindle and do some command line stuff. Then the error "network error - connection refused" appeared.

So, I tried to get out of the diagnostic mode by pressing power button for 20secs, and now my screen is black and when I press the power button the screen flicks for some seconds and becomes black again.

I have some middle-knowledge about computers, and have had rooted some android devices in the past. I thought I was good enough for jailbreaking it easily, but brick'd my new favorite gadget.


Help me please

[knc1]

Carefully read the comments attached to that video.
Do any of them sound familar now? All of them maybe.
(When that author first changed a file on the Kindle's fat32 file system and then unplugged the cable **without** doing the "safely remove" step was the time to close that video.)

You both have what is called a "K4" on this forum, but probably different firmware versions.

The quick and easy way out for you at this point: Use Kubrick on it to get back to the "factory stock" image + plus a few of the MR basics (all of which are harmless).

Note: Your device isn't actually "bricked" - but the process of recovery from that condition takes longer and more skill than to just use the Kubrick wizard.

[MOSJ]

Originally Posted by knc1

Carefully read the comments attached to that video.
Do any of them sound familar now? All of them maybe.
(When that author first changed a file on the Kindle's fat32 file system and then unplugged the cable **without** doing the "safely remove" step was the time to close that video.)

You both have what is called a "K4" on this forum, but probably different firmware versions.

The quick and easy way out for you at this point: Use Kubrick on it to get back to the "factory stock" image + plus a few of the MR basics (all of which are harmless).

Note: Your device isn't actually "bricked" - but the process of recovery from that condition takes longer and more skill than to just use the Kubrick wizard.

Yeah, I ended up by using Kubrick (excellent software, btw) and it jailbroke my kindle after flashing it. But thank anyway for answering me

But now I've just had another problem. It was working ok, so I decided to go on with the screensaver change and rebooted the kindle. Guess what? It has now came back to the system diags screen.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by MOSJ

Yeah, I ended up by using Kubrick (excellent software, btw) and it jailbroke my kindle after flashing it. But thank anyway for answering me

But now I've just had another problem. It was working ok, so I decided to go on with the screensaver change and rebooted the kindle. Guess what? It has now came back to the system diags screen.

OK -

There is a file that is created by running any of the diagnostics, that is required to exit the diags mode.

Also, you need to remove that ENABLE_DIAGS file from the user storage.

Sorry - don't have one of those devices running in front of me at the moment - so I have to be a bit inexact . . . .

1) Fumble around in the diags menu and sub-menus until you see the "export file system" (or "export usb" or somesuch) -
Select that ;
Plug cable into pc ;
Delete the ENABLE_DIAGS file;
Safely remove and/or eject ;
Remove cable.

2) Once again in the diags menu . . .
Pick one of the "harmless" diagnostics to run (battery report should be safe at all times) ;
Follow the on-screen directions to step through the diagnostic

**NOW** the missing file will have been created and you can use the usual "exit diags" menu path and it will really exit.

99) Use one of our K4 screen saver hacks.
I think there are several for the K4 - check in the forum master index sticky under "K4".

[knc1]

Originally Posted by MOSJ

Yeah, I ended up by using Kubrick (excellent software, btw) and it jailbroke my kindle after flashing it.

PS: on behalf of ixtab: Thank You

Yeah, he writes some of the really good stuff here.
Everything that people post here is well tested and commented on.

A lot of the stuff here is "better than commercial quality" firmware (and I include the stuff that lab126 sometimes ships).

[MOSJ]

Well, after all, I managed to make it work and was finally able to change the screensavers...


Thank you again, knc1.

And now that I know how to deal with the gadget, I'm able to help another guys

I think I'll do some tutorials in portuguese. There is almost nothing 'bout kindle hacks in PT.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by MOSJ

Well, after all, I managed to make it work and was finally able to change the screensavers...


Thank you again, knc1.

And now that I know how to deal with the gadget, I'm able to help another guys

I think I'll do some tutorials in portuguese. There is almost nothing 'bout kindle hacks in PT.

The KUAL launcher works on all models of the Kindle other than the K1 - - -
That launcher gives the end-user a wide choice of "button" (screen gui) add-ins - - -

That would probably be a good target for translations.

This forum does not support translations, but our Wiki does:
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/KUAL_What%27s_New

And since it was only recently that Amazon started distributing the Kindle in your country; You have lots of topics to choose from to write about.