The latest system jailbreak development progress?
The following is Google translation, please forgive me if there is any ambiguity ---------------------- I am from China and my device is KO3 First off, I've never been interested in piracy, the Amazon...
View ArticleTools Gathering requirements for Kindle Scribe Notebook Manager
I am starting to work on a script to leverage @jhowell's stellar work on KFX Input plugin, which is now able to convert Scribe's nbk files into FXL ePub files that contain SVGs for each page (one for...
View Articlebricked jailbroken PW2 on latest firmware
Hi everyone, it's been years since I jailbreaked my PW2. It was gathering dust in a drawer not so long ago, I plugged it, ended up on diag screen, exited the diag and... updated. It restarted fine, I...
View ArticleDo new Kindles tend to come with the latest firmware? Hoping to jailbreak.
Just curious if anyone knows whether a brand new Paperwhite is likely to come with the most recent firmware or not. I bought a Paperwhite yesterday because of that awesome deal and Im just curious if...
View ArticleUser-installed "main" fonts on Kindle Previewer...possible?
You can copy a font to the "/fonts" directory on a Kindle device to add custom user fonts that can be picked as a choice for the main reading font. Is there any way to do this on Kindle Previewer?
View ArticleK3 :help: Unable to jailbreak kindle 3g with firmware 4.3.4
I tried to jailbreak my kindle keyboard with 3g (sl no B006 AOAO with firmware 3.4.3) with the below file from Link: Update_jailbreak_0.13.N_k3g-3.0-to-3.2_install.bin i renamed the file to make it...
View ArticleBrand new PW5 is on 5.14.0.1. Is it possible to get it to 5.14.2 then jailbreak?
Is there a way to update to 5.14.2 and not the latest unbreakable firmware? Or should I just jailbreak as-is?
View ArticleNew PW5 came with 5.14.0.1 luckily. Do I update to 5.14.2 or 5.14.1.1 to...
I see there's some controversy about UI changes with 5.14.2. Any other issues? Stability? Features? Personal experience with either?
View ArticlePW3 acting different after registering with amazon account
I'm running a PW3 with FW 5.14.2, jailbroken. I spend almost all my time using KO Reader through KUAL. I've been using it (unregistered) for about a year, and it's been great. Last week I registered...
View ArticleHow to undo jailbreak on PW2 for trade-in to Amazon?
Okay, I did some reading on this. Just want to double check I've got the steps right. Step 1: Factory reset. Step 2: Manual firmware update. My question is... the PW2 is already on the latest firmware....
View ArticlePW2 I hope to obtain advice on developing Go plugins
I am trying to write plugins for kual using Golang. I deployed ubuntu22 amd64 using Docker (I tried using ubuntu22 arm32 as below), set up the arm kindlepw2 Linux gnueabi environment, and modified go...
View ArticleKindle for safe experiments?
I'm interested in experimenting more with the startup sequence of the Kindle. Unfortunately it seems that there are a plethora of ways to hang or crash during the boot process. If I have serial port,...
View ArticleHow to modify userAgent of Kindle webBrowser
We know that the Kindle browser is not very useful because it uses a desktop web layout. Nowadays, many websites have mobile-optimized web pages. Is it possible for us to modify the browser's userAgent...
View ArticleWhere can I download zip tool for Kindle
I need to compress some files into ZIP format on Kindle, but Kindle doesn't have a zip tool. I searched the entire internet but couldn't find a precompiled one. However, I found the source code for zip...
View ArticlePW3 update
hello, i just bought a PW3 and it's firmware is 5.6.1.1 and i want to upgrade it a little. can you explain to me how can i do to upgrade it until 5.9 or 5.10 ? thanks for your help
View ArticlePW3 Mag sensor (front cover) closed event
Hi there. I've got a PW3 with USBNetwork Hack installed. I am wondering if I can modify some docs/codes so that the mag sensor will stop triggering the screensaver? The problem is that there is...
View ArticleWatchdog timer and auto-starting a shell script?
I have just turned a Kindle PW3 into a calendar dashboard. Many thanks to this forum, and to NiLuJe in particular, for providing the amazing tools which have enabled this project, and sharing the...
View Articlecan I pipe an image to eips ?
Hello, I created a small script that loads an image from a local http server with curl Code: curl http://localserver:8808/pic -o /var/tmp/pic.png and the writes it to screen with eips: Code: eips -cfg...
View ArticleK5 Issues with jailbreak -- MR Installer
Kindle Touch Model D01200 running FW 5.0.4. I installed jailbreak via https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=186645 Then KUAL with KUAL-KDK-1.0.azw2 Then KUAL Helper to extensions folder Then...
View ArticleMonitor CPU load
Hello, what is a working way to monitor the system load on a jailbroken kindle? When I ssh into the device and run top I only get Code: 'xterm-256color': unknown terminal type. Any pointers?
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