Kindle Basic Stuck in DIAGS

[Mentolathum]

Hello everyone.

I managed to leave my basic kindle in Diagnostic mode, and I do not know how to restart it in normal mode.

* Can someone give me instructions to start in normal mode?

It is an 8th generation basic kindle with the initial firmware 5.8.0, to which I manually installed the rescuepack "Update_rp_20131220.N_install.bin"

Thank you

[hius07]

Send the below commands via usbNetwork:

idme -d --bootmode main 
reboot

[Mentolathum]

Originally Posted by hius07

Send the below commands via usbNetwork:

idme -d --bootmode main 
reboot

the ssh server does not start when the Kindle is started, I attach the diagnostic screen

[knc1]

"Reboot or Disable Diags"
You might have to search the forum or use the master index to learn how to use it.

[Mentolathum]

Originally Posted by knc1

"Reboot or Disable Diags"
You might have to search the forum or use the master index to learn how to use it.

Hello, inside "Reboot or Disable Diags" only options are:

• Delete test logs
• Fastboot mode
• Rebbot system
• Shipping mode

the option to disable diagnostics is missing.

I read some threads of the forum about DIAGS and Debricking, but I have not been able to solve it.

Any ideas?

PD:
This did not work (https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Touch_Hacking#Exiting_Diags_Mode)

[knc1]

Have you tried the Rebbot choice? I think there is another menu level there.
OR
Put it in fastboot mode and then use fastboot from a PC to reset the bootmode value you changed.

[Mentolathum]

Originally Posted by knc1

Have you tried the Rebbot choice? I think there is another menu level there.
OR
Put it in fastboot mode and then use fastboot from a PC to reset the bootmode value you changed.

Yes, I tried the Reboot option, the kindle restarts in diagnostic mode again.

The Fastboot mode option leaves the kindle stuck, showing the message "Reboot and enter fastboot mode", but does not restart.

I think a paperweight was born.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Mentolathum

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The Fastboot mode option leaves the kindle stuck, showing the message "Reboot and enter fastboot mode", but does not restart.
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It is not stuck.
Kindle in fastboot mode does not have any visible on-screen feedback.

Use the Kindle-specific version of fastboot (available on this forum).
Also, the directions of the Kindle PC fastboot has built-in help.
Plus, there are numerous examples of its use posted here.

It is not a Paperweight -
It is just in "educate the fool trying to change things" mode.

[Mentolathum]

Originally Posted by knc1

It is just in "educate the fool trying to change things" mode.

Thank you for your patience

I'm still looking for a cure for my nonsense.

I put the kindle in fastboot mode, then execute:

fastboot setvar bootmode main

I get:

< waiting for device >

nothing happens.

Then I try:

fastboot -s G000K9XXXXXXX setvar bootmode main

I have tried with the serial number of the kindle, PCBSN, FSN from Device_info.txt generated by the diagnostic utility

fastboot is executed as root on mac os high sierra 10.13.2

I've tried with the forum binary and compiled it from here (Yifanlu Git)

Thanks again

[theol0403]

This also happened to me. I was stuck in diags and I couldn't exit and didn't have ssh or to so I copied geekmasters data.tar.gz https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=169645
and his sample runme to the userstore
after 2 reboots to se if the runme worked(one to install the data and one to run the runme), I removed the runme.done and replaced the contents of the runme with "idme -d --bootmode main; reboot"

[knc1]

Originally Posted by theol0403

This also happened to me. I was stuck in diags and I couldn't exit and didn't have ssh or to so I copied geekmasters data.tar.gz https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=169645
and his sample runme to the userstore
after 2 reboots to se if the runme worked(one to install the data and one to run the runme), I removed the runme.done and replaced the contents of the runme with "idme -d --bootmode main; reboot"

PS: You have to use the "USB device mode" entry of the menu to export the USB storage.
PS2: Bad link, you copied the visible, contraction of the URL, not the full URL.
But not a show stopper, it isn't hard to invent the URL to a specific thread id here.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=169645

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[Mentolathum]

Hello again, I managed to solve it thanks to the suggestion of theol0403.

Many thanks to both (theol0403 and knc1).

It was necessary to try a couple of times (the first one did not work) but finally it did.

Thank you very much.

[theol0403]

No problem, glad to see it worked. The reason it took multiple tries was because it takes one reboot for the data.tar.gz to extract and another for the runme to run.
Sorry for the bad link. I am using my Kindle to write these after all 😁. Don't have a phone yet since I'm 14, so been using my Kindle for everything.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Mentolathum

Thank you for your patience

I'm still looking for a cure for my nonsense.

I put the kindle in fastboot mode, then execute:

fastboot setvar bootmode main

I get:

< waiting for device >

nothing happens.

Then I try:

fastboot -s G000K9XXXXXXX setvar bootmode main

I have tried with the serial number of the kindle, PCBSN, FSN from Device_info.txt generated by the diagnostic utility

fastboot is executed as root on mac os high sierra 10.13.2

I've tried with the forum binary and compiled it from here (Yifanlu Git)

Thanks again

Somewhere here, within the past few days, someone posted a fragment of the boot-up messages -
There, fastboot mode was mentioned as having mmc1 as the root device.
Customer Kindles do not have an mmc1 device, only the Amazon/Lab126 development boards have an mmc1 device.