init.d services
Hi, I am new to forum --and a new kindle owner. I have rooted my kindle, and trying to write a script that will run periodically. I was planning to use cron for this, but I don't have it. I have...
View ArticleUsing Kindle as a Writers Editor
I like the easy reading experience of a Kindle and would like to use it as I am writing a book. Having the text display in book form would be more realistic and aid the creative spirit. My initial...
View ArticleBanner
My KindleSO shows a banner below the collections, saying "Please ensure your Kindle is registered and connect wirelessly to receiver the latest Special Offers". Is there a way I can change this?...
View ArticleK4 Really struggled
Hi everyone. I have just got my Kindle 4 NonTouch (silver) and I am a total newcomer for Kindle. Please DO NOT be annoyed by my silly questions..., as I really really need your help I want to run the...
View ArticleLibrerator - multi-format e-reader, fork of KPV
Hi, I made my own fork of KindlePDFReader, called Librerator. It can be downloaded here: https://github.com/kai771/kindlepdfviewer/downloads Full list of changes can be found here:...
View ArticleK4 how to enable USBnetwork in k4nt
I have tried to read the wiki K4 index page many times, but I can't find an answer. After I install the usbnetwork in my K4NT. How do I suppose to active/enable it????? Because in K4, there is no...
View ArticleKindlet Java DjVu Viewer
http://javadjvu.foxtrottechnologies.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/javadjvu/?source=dlp does anyone try to port this program to kindle?
View ArticleK5 Time synchronization on the Touch and PW
I noticed a funny thing about how the Kindle Touch and Paperwhite do their time synchronization. The system calls the shell script /usr/sbin/updatetime (identical on the Touch and the PW). This script...
View ArticleWill automatic FW update from Amazon funk my jailbreak?
Hello I've had Kindle 3GB for a year now and only finally gotten around to jailbreaking it. In that time I noticed once when I turned my 3G on, I received an update to 3.4. I'm wondering then, as...
View ArticleFlashing Demo Units of Kindle DX and Kindle (Ink?)
Hi everyone! I'm new to the forums. I'm a dumpster diver and on one of my trips I fished out two Kindle units. I was ecstatic. But now I'm hoping to turn these demo units into fully functioning units....
View ArticleK5 Paperwhite: ssh page turn?
Has anyone worked out how to turn pages from the shell via ssh? I've experimented with some incantations of lipc-set-prop trying to send a message to the reader. i.e. Code: lipc-set-prop...
View ArticleBricked-Freezed PW
I am a new kindle user, I own a PW for a while. I have it jailbroken using ixtab's jailbreak. It was all fine until today, when I prepared 4 books, and transferred to my kindle using calibre. Then I...
View Article(PW) Location of waterstones screensaver image
I have unpacked the paperwhite 5.3.1 update.bin image and looked through all of the .png files. I have not found the image that is used as the waterstones screensaver image. does anyone know where this...
View ArticleK5 Emulate refreshOnTurn
Good evening to all!! :) I'm trying to figure out a way to emulate the full page refresh option using shell commands. I "need" this because the current option provided by Amazon doesn't affect WAFs...
View ArticleK4 Removing ads from Jailbroken K4.1.0
Hi there everyone, I was just given a new Kindle as a gift - I'm pretty sure it was the cheapset version, as it has ads, but I'm not complaining ^_^ I just jailbroke it (fwiw, it was running 4.1.0 from...
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hi. Pity on me. Cross compile request. Jnotify
Hey. I just am having no fun with my cross compiler again. Pebcak. Don't suppose some kind fool out there could cross compile these measly two files for me could they? Jni.h hates me. Target Kindle 3...
View ArticleK5 How to add *.pobi in one directory to one tag
I've wrote a script to download many .pobi (in fact .mobi) files that are created by calibri on my VPS to /mnt/us/documents/Issues/ daily, but how to put them in Issues tag on Kindle automatically? I...
View ArticleHowTo IRC from the kindle
This is actually a guide! yay! To use IRC from the Kindle 3, you need to have optware or debian set up. then just install irssi and launch it with this: Code: TERM=ansi ; irssi -d -c...
View ArticleK4 Display ncurses on the kindle - Other things
Hello ! Is it possible to display ncurses application, like htop, on the screen of the kindle 4 non touch version (I want to keep its ebook reader usage) ? How can I install ncurses, if possible ? The...
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