K5 FW 5.x ScreenSavers Hack

[NiLuJe]

@jscris: Not Yet Implemented. Patches welcome, this keeps getting thrown to the bottom of the pile of things to do .

[jscris]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@jscris: Not Yet Implemented. Patches welcome, this keeps getting thrown to the bottom of the pile of things to do .

Thanks. I'm sure there are plenty more important things to do. As long as I'm reading one book and not switching, it's possible to also put the same book in azw3 format on the kindle, open it once, and use cover mode so that cover will show while I'm reading the same epub with koreader. But it's a pita. Had I not discovered how much I like nightmode at night, I might not need koreader.

[mlepen]

I may be a bit over my head here, but I've come so far, and I'd be so grateful if someone would help me finish this. I've jailbroken my kindle paperwhite 2 6th generation, I've installed KUAL and MRPI. Using KUAL, I've installed the screensaver extension. I have the screensaver menu in the launcher, but I've never gotten the screensaver that indicates it's working. I just keep getting the standard screensavers (not special offers). I've flagged the screensaver extension for complete uninstall, and then reinstalled it again through KUAL. I've done multiple framework restarts through KUAL, as well as restarted through the kindle settings menu, and I always make sure that nothing is plugged in when I do that. I haven't put any of my own screensavers in the folder, so it can't be that my image files are wrong. Neither the last feature nor the cover feature work either. I've read through all the FAQs, etc. that I can find here, and I still can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. My thanks to anyone here willing to walk me through this!

-michelle

[knc1]

Have you installed Python?
Are you using the packages posted in NiLuJe's snapshots thread?
(prefix filter: tools, click: show threads)

[NiLuJe]

@mlepen: Did the install process through MRPI actually succeed?

Do you actually now even *see* a linkss folder at the USB root of the Kindle?

[mlepen]

Yes, I installed python. No, I did not got to the snapshots thread to install anything. The files I installed are:

kindle-jailbreak-1.14.N
update bin 5.8.1
kual v2.7
kual helper 0.5.N
kual mrinstaller 1.6.N
kindle linkss 0.24.N
kindle python 0.14.N-pw2_kt2_kv_pw3_koa_kt3

The install process appears to me to have been successful (apart from the fact that it doesn't work). Yes, I see the linkss folder at the root of my kindle.

[NiLuJe]

@mlepen:

Huh.

Well, let's check everything.

PM me the MRPI logs (extensions/mrinstaller/log/mrinstaller.log), as well as recent system logs (reboot the device, wait for it to settle, enter ;dm in the Homescreen's search bar, send me the *_system_* log that'll dump in the documents folder).

[foghat]

Hi, I assume this will work with PW3 using FW 5.8.1. I know it says 5.x on the first post, but just want to make sure.

Edit: Am actually reading on the jailbreak post that I would need to downgrade firmware.

Need to give some thought as to whether I actually want to do that...

[NiLuJe]

@foghat: Yup .

FWIW, if it's the downgrade part giving you pause, it's roughly the same process used for official firmware updates, so it's not as if we were doing some weird voodoo crap .
But do pause, read up and think about it, that's always a good approach .

[knc1]

Originally Posted by foghat

Hi, I assume this will work with PW3 using FW 5.8.1. I know it says 5.x on the first post, but just want to make sure.

Edit: Am actually reading on the jailbreak post that I would need to downgrade firmware.

Need to give some thought as to whether I actually want to do that...

If you are reading the correct (current and maintained, mine) jailbreak post:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=275877

Read all the way to step #7 (including the spoiler) before wasting too much time thinking about it while still uninformed.

[foghat]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@foghat: Yup .

FWIW, if it's the downgrade part giving you pause, it's roughly the same process used for official firmware updates, so it's not as if we were doing some weird voodoo crap .
But do pause, read up and think about it, that's always a good approach .

Originally Posted by knc1

If you are reading the correct (current and maintained, mine) jailbreak post:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=275877

Read all the way to step #7 (including the spoiler) before wasting too much time thinking about it while still uninformed.

Thanks.

I was indeed reading an older thread (linked from redit or something).

So long story short, one can jailbreak and then get the latest FW running again?

Bascially: downgrade, jailbreak, re-install fw 5.8.1 via amazon firmware link.

Once jail broken and again running the latest FW, can the screen saver hack be installed? Or should it be installed while after jail broken but still with downgraded FW?

[eschwartz]

After you update again.

The reason is because firmware updates completely overwrite the rootfs.
The jailbreak survives because of the "bridge", but all other update_*.bin style hacks must be reinstalled after a firmware update.

[foghat]

Thanks!

[foghat]

Okay, got jail broken and udpated to FW 5.8.1.

I am not having luck installing Update_python_0.14.N_install_pw2_kt2_kv_pw3_koa_kt 3.bin

I copy to my root (same level as documents).

When go to 'update your kindle' it is greyed out. Plug the device back in and I see the bin file has been deleted. Have tired this a couple of time with the same results.

Any thoughts.

Edit, I have a PW3.

[knc1]

Allow me to quote part of the hotfix post (from directly above where the attachment is at):

If you're coming straight from the 5.6.5 JB or the Factory Downgrade threads and you completely skipped the first post of *this* thread, be aware that on FW >= 5.5.x (i.e., you), using MRPI is REQUIRED to install every other custom packages!

Does that help you answer your question about why the install package disappears?