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How to unbrick an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite™

This guide instructs you in how to unbrick an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. The consequences of following it are your own responsibility. This method (opening the Kindle and using the serial interface) should be a last resort and should only be considered if other methods fail

The Guide

0. Pry open Kindle using a prying tool
1. Unscrew the screen and remove it from the base. Note that there's a screw hidden under the adhesive at the top in the middle
2. Solder tin wire to serial ports on the bottom
3. Attach tin wire to USB TTY device (order is ground, RX, TX, from the kindle's perspective, where GND is the smallest pad) and plug USB TTY device into your computer
4. Open Putty on your computer in serial mode, with the serial port specified as your USB device and baud configured to 115200

AnatomicJC

Backup android app, data included, no root needed, with adb

Note: This gist may be outdated, thanks to all contributors in comments.

adb is the Android CLI tool with which you can interact with your android device, from your PC

You must enable developer mode (tap 7 times on the build version in parameters) and install adb on your PC.

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chaitunya

#!/usr/bin/bash
pgrep -f /app/extra/share/spotify/spotify
if [ $? = 1 ]; then
    /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=spotify --file-forwarding com.spotify.Client $*
    # Non-flatpak version of spotify:
    # spotify $*
else
    wmctrl -x -a spotify
fi