A few days ago while charging my Kindle 4 via the USB port of my laptop,
the Kindle suddenly shutdown and restarted. To my greatest surprise, all the content on my Kindle
was gone, and my Ubuntu 12.04 PC no longer recognized it.
I realize that due to a defective USB cable, the filesystem of my Kindle got corrupted.
Performing a factory reset and formatting it using tools like Gparted didn’t fix the issue.
After looking around in various forums, I finally came up with a solution that worked for me.
First of all you need to know the mount point of your device that you can easily find typing:
sudo fdisk -l
In my case I could see something like
Disk /dev/sdc: 1457 MB, 1457520640 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 44480 cylinders, total 2846720 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 16 2846719 1423352 b W95 FAT32
meaning that I needed to format /dev/sdc1.
Next I formatted my Kindle using the command:
sudo mkdosfs -F 32 -I /dev/sdc1
This allowed Ubuntu to mount it as a generic device. To get it recognized as Kindle again, I followed these steps:
- Eject the device (from Nautilus)
- Your Kindle should now turn on. Leave it attached to your computer!
- Go in the Settings menu
- Press the menu button and select Reset to Factory Defaults
- When the reset has finished unplug and plug your Kindle.
Ubuntu should now have recognized your Kindle!
Hope this helped!
Source:
http://lucacerone.net/2013/07/13/how-to-get-ubuntu-to-recognize-again-your-kindle-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-get-ubuntu-to-recognize-again-your-kindle-4