help? please? i'm at a total loss here.

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help? please? i'm at a total loss here.

« on: May 25, 2010, 10:40:39 AM »

Last fall I took my son a K2 with the screensaver and font hacks installed. Oh, he's in the Air Force, stationed in Germany. Anyway, he's home on leave, so I decided to uninstall the hacks so he could get the latest update (with upwards of 900 books on his K2, he could really use the collections in the 2.5 update).

Anyway, I used the uninstall files I had so nicely stored. The fonts came off just fine, but the screensavers? I'm turning into a whimpering mess here! I've tried every uninstall file I've got and those I can find and nothing works. No matter what I do, it still says 2.0.3 (327610024) + SS 0.4. I tried and tried and nothing worked. Then I got desperate. I copied all the files off his documents folder, then tried to reset it to factory settings. That should have worked, right? All the books came off, it deregistered his K2, but that stupid +SS 0.4 is still there! It's like some sort of parasite that I can't get rid of!

Help, please??? I am not technology challenged. I have put on and taken off lots of hacks. This one has me stumped. I need to get this straightened out before he goes back to Germany!


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« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2010, 10:57:35 AM »

I had the same thing happen to me before - that's why I no longer use the hack on my Kindle. I don't remember how I fixed it, but I think I just kept running the uninstall until it finally worked.


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« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2010, 04:24:42 PM »

Did you try the file listed in the link at the bottom of my Kindle Hacks page for versions earlier than 2.3? Here's the link to that uninstall file: http://www.charles-reace.com/Kindle_Hacks/Update_kindle2_restore_default_screen_savers.bin.


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« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2010, 05:51:05 PM »

When you install a hack, you are altering the system files. Now the Kindle no longer recognizes what it used to be, so you need to uninstall the hack with the proper uninstall file to return it to its original state. I suspect that NogDog has the right solution for you.


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« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2010, 01:07:54 PM »

Thanks, everyone. I just kept fooling around with it and finally something clicked. Not sure what it was! Now, for the update!


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