So, the 3G on my ancient Kindle 2 International stopped working, and I thought it might have been a problem with the device.
It turns out it kind of was, but not in the way I thought, and unless the server which the 411 page claims is DOWN,DOWN,DOWN magically comes back UP,UP,UP for me and gives me a radio serial number so that I can connect to Amazon via 3G again, I'm just going to have to live without syncing access, etc.
Unfortunately, in an effort to fix the problem before I realized that it really wasn't on my end, I ended up doing a factory reset out of desperation, which of course wiped out my registration info (and apparently killed my ability to try and switch networks using the 311 trick, which it seems is something that also requires a registered K2).
TBH, I'm not all that bothered about losing the 3G, which hasn't worked since the middle of last year and which I thought they'd just turned off the service entirely for the K2 models since it's been so many years. But I really want to be able to at least create and use Collections locally on the device, which of course now I can't since it's no longer registered and can't even phone into Amazon to do so.
I don't suppose there any hack which can fake-register the K2 again for me, or at least get it to use Collections? If it's any help, I did do a "dd" backup of my Kindle's entire data partition before I started trying to "fix" things, though if there's some hidden drive stuff somewhere that didn't show up in Mac OS X's Disk Utility, then those hidden "system" folder files probably aren't going to be of any use.
ETA: I came across this: Simplest method to register your Kindle w/2.5.x firmware, if you live outside US. But it seems to be for the Kindle 2 US versions only, and I have a K2 International model, and I'm rather wary of messing it up any further, since it otherwise works okay and I can live without the sync/shopping functions, but I really want my Collections back, and to be able to manage them directly from the device itself.
ETA 2: Well, it looks like it can probably be done via usbnetwork, if I'm willing to risk that (don't have nearly enough CLI knowledge to feel comfortable with it, though I guess I was meaning to brush up on my Terminal skills this summer), at least on a Kindle DX and hopefully the K2 reginfo should be the same.
But I was hoping someone with better knowledge/search-fu would know of an easier and less intrusive way. :fingersx:
It turns out it kind of was, but not in the way I thought, and unless the server which the 411 page claims is DOWN,DOWN,DOWN magically comes back UP,UP,UP for me and gives me a radio serial number so that I can connect to Amazon via 3G again, I'm just going to have to live without syncing access, etc.
Unfortunately, in an effort to fix the problem before I realized that it really wasn't on my end, I ended up doing a factory reset out of desperation, which of course wiped out my registration info (and apparently killed my ability to try and switch networks using the 311 trick, which it seems is something that also requires a registered K2).
TBH, I'm not all that bothered about losing the 3G, which hasn't worked since the middle of last year and which I thought they'd just turned off the service entirely for the K2 models since it's been so many years. But I really want to be able to at least create and use Collections locally on the device, which of course now I can't since it's no longer registered and can't even phone into Amazon to do so.
I don't suppose there any hack which can fake-register the K2 again for me, or at least get it to use Collections? If it's any help, I did do a "dd" backup of my Kindle's entire data partition before I started trying to "fix" things, though if there's some hidden drive stuff somewhere that didn't show up in Mac OS X's Disk Utility, then those hidden "system" folder files probably aren't going to be of any use.
ETA: I came across this: Simplest method to register your Kindle w/2.5.x firmware, if you live outside US. But it seems to be for the Kindle 2 US versions only, and I have a K2 International model, and I'm rather wary of messing it up any further, since it otherwise works okay and I can live without the sync/shopping functions, but I really want my Collections back, and to be able to manage them directly from the device itself.
ETA 2: Well, it looks like it can probably be done via usbnetwork, if I'm willing to risk that (don't have nearly enough CLI knowledge to feel comfortable with it, though I guess I was meaning to brush up on my Terminal skills this summer), at least on a Kindle DX and hopefully the K2 reginfo should be the same.
But I was hoping someone with better knowledge/search-fu would know of an easier and less intrusive way. :fingersx: