As measured by download counts of tools and forensic images, the 'success reports' list is only about ONE PERCENT of all those who appear to have used this method. Of course, it took a HUGE effort on the part of myself and others to gather all the tools together and grow it, organize it, simplify it, and document it for use by beginners. So my bricked and damaged K4 should also share credit for this 'simple debricking' method. If not for my bricked K4 with a dead serial port, this method may not have become available to all those who used it successfully, and a lot of dead kindles would still be sitting in drawers and closets around the world. Together, we worked out how to use it to get my SEVERELY bricked K4 (with internal serial port pads ripped loose from the circuit board) working again during an IRC session spread out over a week. After all, it was his 'slip of the finger' that discovered the 'magic key' for USB Downloader mode on the K4, and how to boot a custom u-boot from USB using that special mode.

Geekmaster pretty much invented this method, so he knows it inside and outĪctually, I gave credit to yifanlu for the original push in the right direction (as can be seen in gray at the bottom of the first 'simple debricking' post).

How to use a kindle model d00511