Hacks My Kindle 3 Teardown Video

[kacir]

Originally Posted by brecklundin

funny he had no idea what those "mystery ports" were on the side that are wired in...those are where the hinge connects and they provide power to the light in the Kindle brand case with the integrated reading light. It's an interesting concept.

One of these ports ALSO works as a 1.8V TTL serial console connector, see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=kindle+serial
so that hacker guy isn't *that* ignorant ;-)

[911jason]

Originally Posted by jangell2

No, in the video review he does that and with win7 it is still not available to use. I believe it was mentioned that it works with XP.

Originally Posted by Tiersten

You need to eject from the Computer explorer window if you're using Vista/7 which Dave doesn't do in his review. On XP you eject from the Safely remove hardware window in your notification area. Section 8.1 in the Kindle manual. It works here on multiple Windows 7 machines and others have reported it works as well.

Just in case it wasn't clear from Tiersten's reply, you need to eject it from the Windows Explorer program, on the left side where you see all of your drives, find the Kindle "drive" and right-click on it, then choose EJECT. Your Kindle will now exit the USB mode and will continue to charge while allowing you to use it. If you use the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" icon in the system tray next to the clock, it will not be usable until unplugged.

[brecklundin]

Originally Posted by kacir

One of these ports ALSO works as a 1.8V TTL serial console connector, see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=kindle+serial
so that hacker guy isn't *that* ignorant ;-)

cool...thanks...very interesting. I hope you did not take my comment to imply they guy had no clue, he just was not familiar with the purpose of the connectors which I found funny because he was so excited to crack the thing open he didn't figure stuff out before the video...gotta love his enthusiasm for sure!!

[kacir]

Originally Posted by brecklundin

I hope you did not take my comment to imply they guy had no clue,

Well, he really didn't have clue about lighted cover ;-)
He just rightly identified one of hinges as an interesting unknown data connector.

[wurzel]

My Gawd - his voice !! And that knife blade !!

[curstpriest]

Looks like you review a lot of stuff, and have really good knowledge of electronic devices.

Good job.

I saw the original review a while ago, and thought it was pretty classy subjecting the device to environmental tests @ the lab.

[ode]

Good stuff Dave!

Really enjoying checking out some of your other videos too

[pboss]

Very nice! Wish I knew more about electronics and stuff. I'll check out your other videos when I got some more time.

[joshwaG]

Originally Posted by altzone

My Kindle 3 Teardown video for those interested to see inside their Kindle:



Regards
Dave.

Hi,

Is it possible to remove the processor, memory like you can in a PC or would you need to pry them off?

[MrWizardNJ]

Thanks to your video Dave, I was able to lightly lubercate my wife's kindle, knowing the on/off micro switch was off to the side of the slider. (Be careful with these things at the beach!)