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unabatedshagie · 07-29-2015, 09:12 AM

Below is long story of stupidity with a nice tl;dr at the bottom.

Got a hold of a Kindle PW2 from my aunt, it had only been connected to the internet during initial setup and was running FW 5.4.2.1.

When I got a hold of it I didn't initially connect it to the internet and I successfully jailbroke it and managed to get the collection manager on it (which is all I really wanted to jailbreak for).

Then I stupidly connected it to the internet. I wasn't aware that the Kindle would auto-update or that there was a way of preventing it.

So now I have a Kindle running 5.6.1.0.6 which I believe was still jailbroken.

I then (probably stupidly) went into the settings and chose the reset device option.

Fast forward a few weeks and I read this post by madagascaradam about a similar situation to mine in which he was able to downgrade to a version of the FW on which the collection manager works fine.

I've tried following the steps but haven't had any success in downgrading it though.

I can still access KUAL and I've got the mkk folder with five files in it.

So rather than derail the collection manager thread with potentially solving my problem I thought I'd make a new thread.

tl;dr
How to tell whether or not my device is still jailbroken so I might be able to potentially downgrade.

07-29-2015, 09:12 AM	#1
unabatedshagie Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2014 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2	How to tell if I'm jailbroken? Below is long story of stupidity with a nice tl;dr at the bottom. Got a hold of a Kindle PW2 from my aunt, it had only been connected to the internet during initial setup and was running FW 5.4.2.1. When I got a hold of it I didn't initially connect it to the internet and I successfully jailbroke it and managed to get the collection manager on it (which is all I really wanted to jailbreak for). Then I stupidly connected it to the internet. I wasn't aware that the Kindle would auto-update or that there was a way of preventing it. So now I have a Kindle running 5.6.1.0.6 which I believe was still jailbroken. I then (probably stupidly) went into the settings and chose the reset device option. Fast forward a few weeks and I read this post by madagascaradam about a similar situation to mine in which he was able to downgrade to a version of the FW on which the collection manager works fine. I've tried following the steps but haven't had any success in downgrading it though. I can still access KUAL and I've got the mkk folder with five files in it. So rather than derail the collection manager thread with potentially solving my problem I thought I'd make a new thread. tl;dr How to tell whether or not my device is still jailbroken so I might be able to potentially downgrade.