Irreversibly Bricked? - Page 3

meeera · 06-11-2014, 12:01 AM

No flashing/rooting here; this was a factory unit used just for reading by my father-in-law.

colinsky · 06-11-2014, 03:32 AM

I have hit a similar/the same problem, without any rooting, simply by (attempting) to update the device firmware.

During the update process, the device hit a loop (left it overnight even) and no combinations of buttons or hard/soft resets changes the behavior.

On turning the device on, the starting screen shows but the bar does not advance. After 30-seconds to a minutes, the screen goes blank and repeats. As I said, no combination of recommended buttons will make the bar progress or the device boot into recovery mode.

Any ideas as to what i might try?

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06-11-2014, 12:01 AM	#31
meeera Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,794 Karma: 68145694 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2, iPadMini4, iPad4, MBP; support other Kobo/Kindles	No flashing/rooting here; this was a factory unit used just for reading by my father-in-law.

06-11-2014, 03:32 AM	#32
colinsky Addict Posts: 240 Karma: 3500000 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: Sony PRS-300, PRS-T1, PRS-T3	I have hit a similar/the same problem, without any rooting, simply by (attempting) to update the device firmware. During the update process, the device hit a loop (left it overnight even) and no combinations of buttons or hard/soft resets changes the behavior. On turning the device on, the starting screen shows but the bar does not advance. After 30-seconds to a minutes, the screen goes blank and repeats. As I said, no combination of recommended buttons will make the bar progress or the device boot into recovery mode. Any ideas as to what i might try?

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