2.5 update = 2.5.2!

[Luvmy4brats]

I have a question that I'd like clarified if anyone knows the answer:

I currently have 2.3 on my K2.  Do I have to manually update to 2.3.3 and then 2.3.4 before I will get 2.5.2?  It's never been downloaded automatically to my Kindle, and I've read conflicting opinions here about the need to be running 2.3.4 before the file will download.

Thanks.

If you want to manually update it using the bin I uploaded, then yes, you'd need to update to 2.3.3 and then to 2.3.4 before you could update to 2.5.2

BUT, if you're waiting for the automatic download, you shouldn't need to. They'll send out a version for 2.3.

It just happens that mine is 2.3.4 and the update bin I have will only work on that.

[chilady1]

Cindy416 - here's answer to your question:

This will only work for the K2i since that is what Luvmy has  

If it says version 2.3 then you need to do 3 updates to get you up to speed
If it says 2.3.3 then you need to do 2
If it says 2.3.4 then you only need to do one update.

Go here http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86316 and scroll to message number 5 which has the 3 files you need to download

For each one you need to do follow these steps and in order - i.e. you must do 2.3.3 then 2.3.4 then 2.5.2

1) Connect your kindle to the computer and copy that file to the top level directory on your kindle.
2) Disconnect from the PC and click on menu, settings and then menu again - you should have the option to `update'.
3) Click update and it will update and restart your Kindle.

Repeat this process for 2.3.4 and then the one in the 2.5.2 zip.
You will be then completely up to date!

[cmdixon]

Georgia here, and very confused.  I have no idea how to tell if this thing is a K2i or K2US.  It's version 2.3 with a long bunch of numbers after it in parenthesis.  I did a restart and a synch/check for items and now under menu, under settings, menu again it has an option to disable annotations backup, but it is still version 2.3.  That is the only new command or whatchamajigger I have seen.  I have 108 items and I very much would like to begin to organize them before the flood is too big to handle. 

I am sure my brain will explode just from trying to figure out if it's an international or US kindle, let alone doing a manual update.

Wow. I'm also from Georgia and just came here to post the same question!  Just read the responses and I have the K2i. Yay!  I'll be manually updating in just a little while - gotta take the kids out for an hour or so.

Colleen

[ginaf20697]

My Kindle has no hacks, is still on version 2.3 YET has the rotating screen feature which I'm pretty sure is from a later update so I have no idea WHAT to think.

[Luvmy4brats]

My Kindle has no hacks, is still on version 2.3 YET has the rotating screen feature which I'm pretty sure is from a later update so I have no idea WHAT to think.

That was from 2.3

[Cindy416]

Cindy416 - here's answer to your question:

This will only work for the K2i since that is what Luvmy has  

If it says version 2.3 then you need to do 3 updates to get you up to speed
If it says 2.3.3 then you need to do 2
If it says 2.3.4 then you only need to do one update.

Go here http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86316 and scroll to message number 5 which has the 3 files you need to download

For each one you need to do follow these steps and in order - i.e. you must do 2.3.3 then 2.3.4 then 2.5.2

1) Connect your kindle to the computer and copy that file to the top level directory on your kindle.
2) Disconnect from the PC and click on menu, settings and then menu again - you should have the option to `update'.
3) Click update and it will update and restart your Kindle.

Repeat this process for 2.3.4 and then the one in the 2.5.2 zip.
You will be then completely up to date!

I knew that I'd have to do the manual updates if I were upgrading a K2i, but since I have a K2, I still am not sure. I'm going to wait patiently for mine to be upgraded, am am going to assume that the 2.5.2 upgrade will take place even though my K2 is running 2.3.  If anyone knows for sure that I need the other versions of 2.3 for my K2, please advise me.  (I could go ahead and do the updates manually and then wait for 2.5.2, but I hate to tamper with something that's working perfectly if I don't need to.

[k2reader]

I was one of the (I guess) lucky few who actually recieved the 2.5 update.

Will I get the 2.5.2 update and if so, what does it include that 2.5 doesn't?

[Carol Collett]

K2US w/WN on for several days-no 2.5.2 yet.  Are there any K2US with the update yet? I've just read the last six pages of this thread and I don't see the answer?

I'm in Nashville, TN.

I'll leave WN on until Wraith updates or until Amazon (or someone w/the K2US .bin file) posts it. I really want to organize my 16 pages of books!

Edit: just noticed this is my 200th post!

[tiggeerrific]

Dont know where my posts went but when I went to the website to download they wanted me to pay is this right

[Luvmy4brats]

Dont know where my posts went but when I went to the website to download they wanted me to pay is this right

No, you don't need to pay. Click on the circle to the right that says FREE USER

[Crystalmes]

I contemplated bringing my cable to work, and didn't. I am regretting that desicion. BOO! Can't wait to get home.

[SimonStern2]

I have my cable, but a K2US, so nothing I can load with it. 

[jpmorgan49]

For my k2i owners. (I had upgraded to 2.3.4)

Please try this file and see if it works

http://www.mediafire.com/?nqy2qmnmyjm

I downloaded the file and placed it in my Root directory of the Kindle but the "Update your Kindle" is still Greyed out.
jp

[Luvmy4brats]

I downloaded the file and placed it in my Root directory of the Kindle but the "Update your Kindle" is still Greyed out.
jp

The bin file I uploaded last night is for the K2i

[jpmorgan49]

Ahh, I see that now, so it's not available for the K2?
jp

[Steph H]

No one appears to have captured the bin file for the K2US yet -- I'm anxiously awaiting the file or the update also! *pouting*

[Luvmy4brats]

Maybe somebody who has a K2 (US) can put their hacks back on. What happens is that with the hacks on, the bin file will download, but can't install so it will just sit there. You'll know you have it if you pick up your Kindle after a few hours and it's on the home page (not asleep) because for some reason, having the bin file on there makes it unable to go to sleep.

Once you see that, hook up your Kindle to your computer and copy the bin file over to the computer. Upload a copy for others to use, then remove the hacks and install the bin.

[jpmorgan49]

Good idea, Now what did I do with those Hack files..
jp

[Ann in Arlington]

Just going to jump in here and remind all you folks who have Heather to thank for your 2.5.2 that she is walking in the Komen 3-Day. . . .links in her signature to help her meet her donation goals!  

[adkinsn07]

Hey, FYI they're rolling out the update again!!! I got mine this morning!!!

[Luvmy4brats]

May I make a suggestion. Those of you that removed your hacks and are waiting for the US version or DX version. Please put your hacks back on.

Here's why:

With the hacks on, the update will download to your Kindle, but because of the hacks it won't install. It will just sit there. You will know it's there because your Kindle will not go to sleep. As soon as I picked my Kindle up and saw that it was on the Home page, I KNEW I had the update (the same thing happened with the 2.3 update) I hooked up my Kindle computer and there it was.

Once it's there, all you need to do is copy it to your computer, upload the file for others to share, then remove the hacks and install the update. It's REALLY easy!

[Luvmy4brats]

Just going to jump in here and remind all you folks who have Heather to thank for your 2.5.2 that she is walking in the Komen 3-Day. . . .links in her signature to help her meet her donation goals!  

Thanks Ann!!

[tiggeerrific]

I am really dumb at this i have no idea how to down load the 2.5 .I guess I will just have to be happy with my 2.3.2

[Luvmy4brats]

I am really dumb at this i have no idea how to down load the 2.5 .I guess I will just have to be happy with my 2.3.2

Try going here and downloading these files:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=950763&postcount=5

[BTackitt]

Luvmy, thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU!
Patience with electronics is not something I have much of, I know how to use them, and make things with/for them, but actually mucking around inside them, I get nervous. Installing the update was SIMPLE, and now I'm off to play with Collections.