01-23-2013, 06:41 PM | #1141 |
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01-23-2013, 06:50 PM | #1142 |
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Lies!!!! He is a machine.
omnipotent... he see's everything.. *insert the opening credits from person of interest here* hehehe who knew that little guy with the glasses was the inventor of the kindle!!! |
01-24-2013, 07:55 PM | #1143 | |
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I have had an iPhone since the very first version, and I remember all the hassles we had to go through to jailbreak it (not me - people much much smarter than me who worked out how to do it) to get what I thought was some pretty basic functionality into it.....I recall I had a list of 5-6 things that I needed it to do, which it didn't. However, over time, all of these things were gradually incorporated into the OS, and now I am running iOS bog standard, unjailbroken, and it does all the things I need it to do. I don't know, but I strongly suspect that Apple kept an eye on boards like this and made a note of why people were jailbreaking and what functionality they were installing.....and eventually they incorporated this functionality into the OS. Of course, they also fought a running battle with the jailbreakers, plugging jailbreak holes with each new update, which is fair enough....but the point is, they seemed to be taking note of the functionality that MOST people were looking for and incorporating it into their own OS, thus removing the need for jailbreaking for MOST of their client base. Of course, also, there will always be people who need or wish to jailbreak devices, either simply because they can, or because they need it to do something totally obscure, (to most of us) but that they see as necessary functionality. So, I am surprised that Amazon hasn't incorporated things like ixtab's hyphenation hack, or NiLuJe's screensaver hack or some of the other popular ones (and you can easily see what they are simply by reading through this thread) into the OS. They've all been out there long enough for Amazon to have noted how popular they are and to have been able to incorporate them, if they'd been paying attention. Anyone from Amazon reading this? Just my (slightly off-topic, and for that, I apologize) opinion. Hendrix |
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01-25-2013, 03:55 AM | #1144 |
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: Shock:: Shock:: Shock: ¿Ixtab not God?
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01-25-2013, 06:01 AM | #1145 |
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ixtab,
Thank you so much for correcting the margins on my kindle paperwhite! The device is much better now! Tom p.s. I donated a few bucks to your Laos charity. |
01-25-2013, 02:54 PM | #1146 |
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01-25-2013, 03:05 PM | #1147 |
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01-25-2013, 03:19 PM | #1148 |
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01-28-2013, 08:38 PM | #1149 |
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Short update: support for Paperwhite FW 5.3.3 (with the 4 supported patches) is actually implemented and working , but I'm still trying to enhance the hyphenation patch (for all firmwares). Should be available within a week, at most.
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01-28-2013, 09:04 PM | #1150 |
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01-29-2013, 04:50 AM | #1151 |
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I have registered only to thank you for your work, ixtab.
I have made a little donation of 10$ for the Laos Literacy Project. Thanks again. Excuse my bad english. |
01-29-2013, 01:45 PM | #1152 |
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ixtab, thank you for your work.
Today my PW updates itself to 5.3.3 and jbpatch stop working =( Is there some technique for disabling future OTA updates? |
01-29-2013, 01:56 PM | #1153 | |
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Obviously, keeping wifi permanently switched off is a solution, but having an auto-update disabler of some kind would mean a lot less paranoia for users like me who love JBpatch. |
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01-29-2013, 02:18 PM | #1154 | |
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Download from Amazon the 5.3.1 update package to your PC - Put a copy of that at the root of USB storage - right next to 'documents' - (NOT IN, NEXT TO) - Eject, unplug USB, home -> menu -> settings -> menu -> update Kindle. Now report your results at that point. Keep 'airplane mode' enabled until the JBpatch for 5.3.3 is released. Q? Do you have the new Launcher installed? If so, there may be an update enable/disable 'helper' available in the future. |
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01-30-2013, 05:47 AM | #1155 |
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me too
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