Kindle touch debrick (next steps?)

lec · 03-15-2014, 06:23 AM

I'm trying to debrick my kindle touch. I tried the Kubrick live system to debrick it. Kubrick runs fine and it succesfully flashes my kindle. However, when rebooting the kindle it only gets to the first bit of the boot progess bar and then seems to reboot again. This happens ~3 times and then the need repair screen shows up again. (When I wipe the settings it asked for the device language after the reboot.)

My question is what can I try next? i.e., what can I do what the Kubrick live system not already has done automaticallly? I already wiped mmcblk0p3:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0p3 bs=4K count=1K
but without success.

NiLuJe · 03-15-2014, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lec

(When I wipe the settings it asked for the device language after the reboot.)

Err, that's the normal bring up process for a 'fresh from factory' device, so I'm not sure I quite got the issue you seem to be having?

lec · 03-15-2014, 04:34 PM

yes, thats not the problem, just wannted to say that it works normal to a certain degree but then hangs at the "need repair" screen

lec · 03-16-2014, 12:04 AM

Ok, here is how I (accidentally) fixed it:

- I booted into diags with kubrick and before the actual flashing and after the usb connection has been established I switched the konsole (ctrl+alt+f2)
- locked into the kindle:
ssh root@192.168.15.244
- mounted /dev/mmcblk0p2:
mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/main
- in the file in /mnt/main/upstart/ (i forgot the name, something releated gui server) i changed the start count from 2 to 0
- disable diags, reboot, done :-)

03-15-2014, 06:23 AM	#1
lec Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: kindle touch	Kindle touch debrick (next steps?) I'm trying to debrick my kindle touch. I tried the Kubrick live system to debrick it. Kubrick runs fine and it succesfully flashes my kindle. However, when rebooting the kindle it only gets to the first bit of the boot progess bar and then seems to reboot again. This happens ~3 times and then the need repair screen shows up again. (When I wipe the settings it asked for the device language after the reboot.) My question is what can I try next? i.e., what can I do what the Kubrick live system not already has done automaticallly? I already wiped mmcblk0p3: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0p3 bs=4K count=1K but without success.

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03-15-2014, 04:34 PM	#3
lec Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: kindle touch	yes, thats not the problem, just wannted to say that it works normal to a certain degree but then hangs at the "need repair" screen

03-16-2014, 12:04 AM	#4
lec Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: kindle touch	Ok, here is how I (accidentally) fixed it: - I booted into diags with kubrick and before the actual flashing and after the usb connection has been established I switched the konsole (ctrl+alt+f2) - locked into the kindle: ssh root@192.168.15.244 - mounted /dev/mmcblk0p2: mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/main - in the file in /mnt/main/upstart/ (i forgot the name, something releated gui server) i changed the start count from 2 to 0 - disable diags, reboot, done :-)

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