Paperwhite 2nd Gen
Hello Guys and Girls, I am asking this in this forum rather than the normal Amazon Kindle forum because it is about future development especially with the way they keep obfuscating things making life...
View ArticleK5 How Do you actually write apps for the kindle?
Folks, Suspecting that there is going to be a slightly embarrasing answer to this question, but anyhow: here goes. I have a kindle 4 touch - I've been following along with the weather station hack...
View ArticleCalendar and chess for PW
Hello there! Few days ago i instaled KUAL to my precious kindle PW. I am looking for any calendar app, in best case calendar with "add note to date" option. Im also looking for good chess app. I use...
View Articlewhen is kindle sleeping?
Hello, I'm trying to get my weather hack working only when the kindle is in sleep mode. I have a cron job that runs the weather update shell script. Is there a way I can tell from the cmdln/bash when...
View ArticlePaperwhite: any way to lower the minimum brightness?
Hi all, Forgive me if this topic has been covered somewhere, though I have searched high and low: Is there a possibility of creating a hack that would reduce the Kindle Paperwhite's minimum brightness...
View ArticleI'm not smart enough to remove jailbreak 3.4
Hi all. I have a Kindle 3G US that I absolutely must permanently remove the jailbreak from. To cut the story short, I used Kubrick, and now I have a jailbroken K3G with fw 3.4. I am not able to find a...
View Articleroot password doesn't work
I have a jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite. usbnetwork is working and I had shell access working via ssh over usb. I'm not sure what changed, but after I installed KUAL, skipstone, backdoor lock, the root...
View ArticleNew Kindle Touch missing home button -> no usb downloader mode possible?
Hi all, I recently bought Kindle Touch and I am trying to jailbreak it. My device is running firmware 5.3.7, and I understand I should follow the Kubrick live-cd procedure. My problem is that my device...
View ArticleKindle KDK PNG support + autostart?
Hi Folks, would anyone have a code example lying around to show a png on a kindle? secondly - is there a recommended way to auto start an application on a kindle? I guess you can just use the java...
View ArticleKindleEar, the Calibre running on GAE, deliver RSS to your kindle automatically.
I modified and ported the Calibre to run on GAE two months ago, the web application can aggregate RSS to generate a MOBI file with images, then deliver to your kindle automatically. The KindleEar is...
View ArticleKT Cannot get to USB Downloader mode
Hi. I am not sure how, but I borked my KT so that it only ever displays whatever the screen was when it turned itself off. So I tried the obvious solution, Kubrick. Which is brilliant, although not...
View ArticleEdit Default Kindle PW Font Sizes
How can I edit the default kindle PW font sizes? I am looking for some middle ground in font size between two of default sizes. Any help on which files i need to edit or where to start would be...
View ArticleK3-- not detected
Team Kindle-- I've been studying and can't root this out. (this is not a bricked unit-- afaik... but im beginning to suspect). Help cousin move and I find a kindle K3+wifi+3g in a waste bin --I charged...
View ArticleKT doesn't last long in fastboot
As I wrote in topic, I've got a problem with processing my bricked KT into fastboot mode. I'm doing this combination of buttons but when passed into fastboot by mfgtool, it disappears and disconnects...
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K5 galculator 2.1.2 (Kindle ver)
http://galculator.sourceforge.net/ upstream raw code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/galc...r.bz2/download Tested on KT & PW NOTES: Paper mode is elided and a few awkward selection dialogs......
View ArticleTo programmers: help for a little "battery Report" app improvement
Hi there! I'm not a programmer so I need a little help for a Kual App... I really like the Battery Report app (it is the only one that shows me the battery charge percentage at the moment)... but I...
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K5 aOSD_cat OSD thingy.
https://github.com/atheme/libaosd an on screen display tool which uses libaosd aosd_cat is an advanced on screen display tool based on libaosd. It can be used for OSD-style notifications in shell...
View ArticleHow to convert linux apps for running in kual?
Hi, can anybody explain me what kind of apps can i covert for running under kual (in which language must be written, for example, or for which OS), and how to make the conversion?
View ArticleHardware i.MX50 Boot mode
The information in the following linked thread may lead to a way to get the K5-Paperwhite (i.MX508) into USB-HID downloader mode: https://community.freescale.com/message/271552#271552 That process may...
View ArticleK3 Deleted kual by accident from home menu, proper way to get it back?
Hi all, just got my first kindle and actually jailbroke, screensaver hacked, and installed kual and koreader without a hiccup(thanks to all the wonderful tutorials) which is quite an achievement for me...
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