I have a bricked Kindle - it does not seem to boot anymore and would gladly accept advise. Hope this is the right place.
What did I do?
Short: I played around with the wifi daemon, caused an infinite reboot loop, got into reset mode and left the kindle sitting like that for a time. When I picked it up again, it was unresponsive.
Long:
1) After rooting the K3 Keyboard, first
2) I tried to connect it to a wlan without internet connection and followed this solution: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=237799 - however after adding the "-n" to the call of wifid in /etc/kdb.src/luigi/system/daemon/pmond/wifid/start_cmd the wifi selection would not pop up in the kindle ui anymore.
3) I inspected the logs and found a Java Exception (which I do not have anymore) that lead me to believe the wifi daemon I just messed with was no longer working.
4) I removed the '-n' (and booted again), but that had no effect. Then I started it manually in foregroung (-f), which worked (it put messages to stdout/stderr about not being able to kill sth. and a missing parameters, but these had been there I believe even before I messed with it)-
5) Then I edited start_cmd and removed the -f to see if that would work - which was a bad idea. The following reboot ended in the already mentioned boot loop.
6) I tried resetting (holf 30 sec on/off, hold 1 min Home), aborted it once (did not help) and reentered it. At this point I did not have time anymore and let it sit in this state for a couple of days (seemed better than an endless boot loop).
7) When I picked it up again, it was completely unresponsive, neither typing del, the reset characters or trying to soft reset showed an effect on the screen.
8) I tried Kubrick, which seemed to find and flash it correctly, at least it did not report any errors. However, this probably does no good as I still could not reboot at that (last?) step of the unbricking process.
9) Recharged for a day, repeated Kubrick, same result. It seemed the flashing (2nd flashing step) took longer, but I am not sure about that.
State description:
- No response on the screen itself at all, no flashing, still shows the reset page.
- Connecting it to a USB power source lits up the orange LED.
- in this state holding the power switch for 30 seconds switches this LED off, it lits again after releasing
- When not connected, holding the power switch turns on the green LED for some time, sometimes it blinks after this for short 3 blinks, sometimes it does not.
- I checked the cable that is not locked to the mainboard, seems to be fine.
- Another kindle in an online source had a reset button (http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/kindlehack.html), mine does not have it (blank space on mainboard there).
- Removing battery, holding power switch and reattaching the battery had no effects detectable by me.
Any tips to get it booting again?
What did I do?
Short: I played around with the wifi daemon, caused an infinite reboot loop, got into reset mode and left the kindle sitting like that for a time. When I picked it up again, it was unresponsive.
Long:
1) After rooting the K3 Keyboard, first
2) I tried to connect it to a wlan without internet connection and followed this solution: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=237799 - however after adding the "-n" to the call of wifid in /etc/kdb.src/luigi/system/daemon/pmond/wifid/start_cmd the wifi selection would not pop up in the kindle ui anymore.
3) I inspected the logs and found a Java Exception (which I do not have anymore) that lead me to believe the wifi daemon I just messed with was no longer working.
4) I removed the '-n' (and booted again), but that had no effect. Then I started it manually in foregroung (-f), which worked (it put messages to stdout/stderr about not being able to kill sth. and a missing parameters, but these had been there I believe even before I messed with it)-
5) Then I edited start_cmd and removed the -f to see if that would work - which was a bad idea. The following reboot ended in the already mentioned boot loop.
6) I tried resetting (holf 30 sec on/off, hold 1 min Home), aborted it once (did not help) and reentered it. At this point I did not have time anymore and let it sit in this state for a couple of days (seemed better than an endless boot loop).
7) When I picked it up again, it was completely unresponsive, neither typing del, the reset characters or trying to soft reset showed an effect on the screen.
8) I tried Kubrick, which seemed to find and flash it correctly, at least it did not report any errors. However, this probably does no good as I still could not reboot at that (last?) step of the unbricking process.
9) Recharged for a day, repeated Kubrick, same result. It seemed the flashing (2nd flashing step) took longer, but I am not sure about that.
State description:
- No response on the screen itself at all, no flashing, still shows the reset page.
- Connecting it to a USB power source lits up the orange LED.
- in this state holding the power switch for 30 seconds switches this LED off, it lits again after releasing
- When not connected, holding the power switch turns on the green LED for some time, sometimes it blinks after this for short 3 blinks, sometimes it does not.
- I checked the cable that is not locked to the mainboard, seems to be fine.
- Another kindle in an online source had a reset button (http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/kindlehack.html), mine does not have it (blank space on mainboard there).
- Removing battery, holding power switch and reattaching the battery had no effects detectable by me.
Any tips to get it booting again?