Be careful what hacks you install on a jailbroken Paperwhite. Debricking still requires using the serial port, until we discover how to get it into USB Downloader mode.
The compatible K5 (touch) hacks need to be repackaged for the Paperwhite, because of its different serial number prefix. I have
yifanlu's "simple usbNet" hack installed (repackaged for the Paperwhite by
NiLuJe). After searching for ";un" to toggle usbNet, I can ssh into my Paperwhite. Now I need to go lookup my root password:
http://members.ping.de/~sven/kindle.html
It works! I have a root shell on my Paperwhite:
Code:
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.15.244' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
root@192.168.15.244's password:
#################################################
# N O T I C E * N O T I C E * N O T I C E #
#################################################
Rootfs is mounted read-only. Invoke mntroot rw to
switch back to a writable rootfs.
#################################################
[root@kindle root]# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type ext3 (ro,noatime,nodiratime,data=writeback)
none on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /var type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=32768k)
/dev/loop/2 on /lib/firmware/cyttsp type cramfs (ro,noatime,nodiratime)
/dev/loop/3 on /usr/share/X11/xkb type cramfs (ro,noatime,nodiratime)
/dev/loop/4 on /usr/java/lib/fonts type cramfs (ro,noatime,nodiratime)
/dev/loop/5 on /etc/kdb.src type cramfs (ro,noatime,nodiratime)
/dev/loop/6 on /usr/lib/locale type cramfs (ro,noatime,nodiratime)
/dev/loop/7 on /usr/share/keyboard type cramfs (ro,noatime,nodiratime)
/dev/mmcblk0p3 on /var/local type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=writeback)
fsp on /mnt/us type fuse.fsp (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0)
/dev/loop/0 on /mnt/base-us type vfat (rw,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
[root@kindle root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 340.2M 229.4M 93.7M 71% /
tmpfs 125.1M 60.0K 125.0M 0% /dev
tmpfs 125.1M 0 125.1M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 32.0M 428.0K 31.6M 1% /var
/dev/loop/2 216.0K 216.0K 0 100% /lib/firmware/cyttsp
/dev/loop/3 2.5M 2.5M 0 100% /usr/share/X11/xkb
/dev/loop/4 72.9M 72.9M 0 100% /usr/java/lib/fonts
/dev/loop/5 1.3M 1.3M 0 100% /etc/kdb.src
/dev/loop/6 7.9M 7.9M 0 100% /usr/lib/locale
/dev/loop/7 7.7M 7.7M 0 100% /usr/share/keyboard
/dev/mmcblk0p3 62.0M 17.7M 41.0M 30% /var/local
fsp 1.4G 49.2M 1.3G 4% /mnt/us
/dev/loop/0 1.4G 49.2M 1.3G 4% /mnt/base-us
[root@kindle root]#
It is sure mounting a lot of stuff...
But at least the persistent user store (/var/local) is now 62MB instead of 30MB, so having too many books will be much less likely to brick your kindle. That is a good thing. 