PW4 How to enter recovery mode
U-Boot 2016.03 (Oct 16 2018 - 22:28:07 -0700) CPU: Freescale i.MX6SLL rev1.1 996 MHz (running at 792 MHz) CPU: Commercial temperature grade (0C to 95C) at 48C Reset cause: POR Board: MX6SLL Rex I2C:...
View ArticleK5 Can a Kindle Touch battery die without triggering the "Critical Battery"...
My Kindle Touch has died all of the sudden, even though its battery was at 100%. (I was doing some "dev" experimenting, but I took a break and used it as a normal Kindle in the few days prior to this...
View ArticlePW3 Kindle doesn't start - stuck after autoboot counted to zero
Hi I got an freezed Kindle from ebay. the screen was frozen as the desciption told me, and the backlight was working. I managed to connect the serial and the output was the following. It was stucked...
View ArticlePW3 Help - it's now 5.12.1
My bloody kids must have switched on the wifi and my PW3 has been updated to 5.12.1 It was previously jailbroken with no problems. Am I screwed or is there anyway I can get back to previous? BTW, I...
View ArticleKV Anywy to check if my KV is still jail broken?
Some context first: I'm on 5.12.1 fw so no jail breaking possible. But it occurs to me that my KV might already be jaibroken. I'm at a loss as to how to check this. Here's why I think all might not be...
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Kindle Composite Poster
This is my proof of concept: I want to create a status display for my classroom. The admin likes to know what the students are doing and where they are. They like that info to be posted outside each...
View ArticleKV down grade to 5.11.x?
So, I have a Voyage which is jb and was working fine, but I wanted to update the SW. However when I went to 5.8.1 it did not have the features I wanted so I downloaded the latest, which happens to be...
View ArticleCan /etc/hosts be used to block OTA updates?
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=322093 Quote: Originally Posted by PoP (Post 3879464) #metoo :angry: I conclude that 5.11.2 is update.bin.tmp.partial evil. Good that I had the hotfix. My...
View ArticleK3 Attempting to root a K3 with 3G in 2019
Hey, so I have a Kindle 3 with 3G, and I am wanting to root it, pretty much just so I can get a terminal with a SSH client on it. I do a lot of Linux work, so, having something I can toss in my pocket...
View ArticlePW2 Help debricking PW2
Hi, I have a Paperwhite 2 that shows the kindle logo on the screen and doesn't respond to turning on/off or hard reset. I opened up the kindle and connected to the serial port and this is the output I...
View ArticleChanging my current reading book without using touchscreen?
Hi.:help: My voyage was in my back pocket, I sat on it, The screen is broken. It works fine, I can read, PagePress buttons works fine. But I'm stuck in the current book, I can't change it to another...
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Native kindle-abfahrt Public transportation depature times
Recently I finally got into hacking my Kindle PW3 and after a few experiments I thought it was time for a more useful project, thats why I wrote a tool which displays departure information for public...
View ArticleFirmware Upgrade Error
Hi, Got my hands on an older kindle so I can jailbreak and use Collections Manager. IT came with 5.6.1.1 software, and I'm trying to update the firmware to use the above JB in...
View ArticleHelp: VNC touchscreen input
:help: I have a jailbroken Kindle Touch onto which I've downloaded hawhill's Kindle VNC viewer (native app, GPLv2). I've managed to get most things working but I'm unable to get touchscreen input to be...
View ArticlePW2 Help Unbrick
My friend have a PW2 stop on tree, so i used serial to figure out if can be unbricked, when i try to follow the guide for this guide https://gist.github.com/ramast/58633...on-update-file to enter...
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getopt problems when compiling with TCC on kindle 3
Hey everyone - new forum member, I'm using the tinycc (tcc) package created by geekmaster to compile a small C program which plays the game oware in the console (MyTs) on a kindle 3. Everything seems...
View ArticleK5 Is my Kindle Touch completely toast?
A few weeks ago, I started a thread here about a Kindle Touch that freezes intermittently, then flatly refused to start at all. Initially, I thought it was a battery issue, but after buying another...
View ArticleK5 Help: Battery replacement Kindle Touch
:help: After several years of use, the battery in my beloved kindle touch is dying and it can no longer hold a charge. According to ifixit, it should be a fairly easy procedure to replace the battery....
View ArticleK4 How to find root password on firmware 4.1.3?
Hello! i am using a kindle NT4 and decided to jailbreak it. Now i want to SSH into it to make everything easier for me, however all of those "Root Password Tools" were made for versions 4.0 and 4.0.1,...
View ArticleU-Boot compilation issues
I'm trying to compile U-Boot and the i.MX6SL Kindle Linux kernel as to run them in qemu-system-arm. The Linux kernel compiles successfully, but the resulting Image and zImage won't boot in QEMU. I then...
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