K5 Kindle Touch/PaperWhite 5.1.x & 5.2.0 JailBreak

[NiLuJe]

Hello again

Like the title says, here's a FW 5.1.x & 5.2.0 JailBreak! (Yes, that means you, too, with your brand new PaperWhite)!

It's heavily based on yifanlu's jailbreak, with a few tweaks to make it more Touch/PaperWhite centric,
and an updated delivery method for FW 5.1.x & 5.2.0 . So, as always, thanks to everyone involved in Touch & PaperWhite hacking, particularly yifanlu, ixtab, geekmaster & eureka .

In addition, this is also the home of the K5 (Touch/PaperWhite) port of the USBNetwork hack .


Help! My Kindle is running FW 5.3.x!

PaperWhite: Don't Panic! You too can now enjoy a jailbroken device! Check ixtab's thread HERE .

Touch: Check ixtab's HowTo OR downgrade your device.


Latest Updates (01/19/2013):

JailBreak v1.7.N (Tries harder not to be screwed by the 5.3.0 update), USBNetwork v0.7.N (Updated binaries).

INSTALL:

Jailbreak:

Spoiler:

Note for Kindle (Touch) 5.0.x Users:

Please use the "data.tar.gz" file instead of the "data.stgz" one .

Download the attached kindle-jailbreak-1.7.N.zip file, and unpack it. In here, you'll find a few files and directories.
Leave the directories alone, and upload the data.stgz file to the root directory of your Kindle.

Now, eject your Kindle, and go to [HOME] -> [MENU] > Settings -> [MENU] > Restart. During the reboot you should see a pretty Jailbreak image, and a new 'book' will appear in your Home screen to confirm that the device is jailbroken (You can safely delete this 'book' ).

And that's it, your Kindle is now ready to install custom hacks!

Bridge:

Spoiler:

This is designed to workaround the utter annihilation of everything custom by the 5.3.0 update. (In case you weren't aware of it yet, the 5.3.0 is a full update that basically reflash the full system, killing every hack in the process).

The purpose of this simple package is to try to preserve the jailbreak through all this.

The instructions are pretty simple, but only apply to people still on 5.2.0, and/or already jailbroken. (If you're running a vanilla FW 5.3.x, check out ixtab's new JailBreak HERE ).
In the attached kindle-jailbreak-1.7.N.zip archive, you'll find an update_jailbreak_bridge_1.7.N_install.bin update package. Upload it to the root directory of your Kindle.
Now, eject your Kindle, and go to [HOME] -> [MENU] > Settings -> [MENU] > Update Your Kindle. It should take a few seconds.

Once your device has rebooted (after a successful update), you can then run the official 5.3.0 update. Once that's done, you should be able to reinstall every hack you used (because the official update wiped them).
Keep in mind that some stuff might not yet be compatible with FW 5.3.0, and that you'll have to reinstall the developper certificates for custom Kindlets.

ChangeLog:

Spoiler:

• Jailbreak:
  • v1.2.N:
    • Works on firmware <= 5.1.2 .
  • v1.3.N:
    • Minor tweaks for robustness.
  • v1.4.N:
    • Proper PaperWhite support.
  • v1.5.N:
    • A few minor model detection fixes.
  • v1.6.N:
    • Proper support for the UK 3G PW.
  • v1.7.N:
    • Implement a 'bridge' to carry the JailBreak over the 5.3.0 update (following a suggestion from eureka, thanks!). (See the Bridge section)
• Doc: $Id: MR_THREAD 9046 2013-01-27 17:14:01Z NiLuJe $

[NiLuJe]

* Reserved *

The Wiki has been updated (I hijacked the 'simple' jailbreak section, since this is essentially its ugly duckling).

[eureka]

So it means you've found the key for updates accepted by kernel/initramfs?

[ixtab]

Thanks for finding and releasing this!

Just a small suggestion: you may want to reformat the "Jailbreak" spoiler a bit, right now it looks as if all of it only applied to 5.0 users.

[NiLuJe]

@eureka: Nope, it's essentially the same good old thing, except with an updated delivery method for the data.tar.gz changes introduced in 5.1.0 . [PM me if you want the full boring details ].

@ixtab: Yep, I was just thinking the exact same thing when looking at it...

@all: And before someone asks, the interest here over the current usual JB method is user-friendliness: a single file, a single reboot, no need to play with the diags tools .

[eureka]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@eureka: Nope, it's essentially the same good old thing, except with an updated delivery method for the data.tar.gz changes introduced in 5.1.0 .

Aha, have now found the foundation of new method. Thanks for pointing. Nice work (I mean, overall jailbreak making work).

[NiLuJe]

@eureka: Yeah, the date in the 'Latest Updates' in the first post is not a typo, it's roughly when we first discussed it over PM with GM & ixtab, and when the accompanying backend stuff was released

[eureka]

Nice to know about inner circle of developers. Secrets, conspiracy... Not sure if paranoid or just visitor of Kindle Developer's Corner

EDIT: oops, it could be misread. I'm not accusing anybody here, it's a self-irony joke (I'm the visitor). Not sure if paranoid or just have a valid concern

[NiLuJe]

@eureka: Proves that we're evil! ^^

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by eureka

Nice to know about inner circle of developers. Secrets, conspiracy... Not sure if paranoid or just visitor of Kindle Developer's Corner
...

[NiLuJe]

@GM: That reminds me of an IT Crowd ep., the one with the head of dpt. meetings that Jen's never invited to... ^^

[aditya3098]

Originally Posted by geekmaster

"Black Circle"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Circle


P.S The quote button is still GM's avatar

[aditya3098]

Spoiler:

[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by aditya3098

Spoiler:

That is weird. I do not see that in any of my web browsers. It looks like you have a corrupted browser cache.

Did you try viewing it with a different web browser?

Did you try deleting your browser cache files?

I remember years ago needing to also manually delete a windows .DLL file that was really a renamed icon cache archive file. Perhaps you have a similar problem?

What web browser are you using when you see this problem?

http://ask-leo.com/whats_a_browser_c...i_want_to.html

For reasons that I simply can't explain - other than by saying "stuff happens" - the cache can sometimes get confused. This seems to happen to most browsers, and at random times. What you'll see are partially loaded web pages, badly formatted web pages, incomplete pictures, or in some cases, the wrong picture in the wrong place.

It's not always a caching problem, but since it happens often enough, "clear your browser cache" is often one of the first diagnostic steps you'll hear from people like me.

The web page above shows how to clear browser cache to fix that problem on various browsers.

This page shows a similar "wrong icons on web page" problem being fixed by removing malware from the computer:
http://community.norton.com/t5/Norto...es/td-p/192852

[drati71]

Hi,
I`m novice in this sections, and please tell me, i install this jailbreak on my KT5 - 5.1.2 device, i have possibility install this launcher . I need this launcher because i like install some extensions like this - CollectionSync, Removing Ads, 24-hour clock and Screen Savers.
Thank you in advance.