K5 Kindle Paperwhite Jailbreak (5.2.0 - 5.3.1, 5.3.4, 5.3.5)

[ixtab]

Originally Posted by iq161

I know, take your time. I was just surprised how easy and flawlessly the jailbreak worked as it was released today

"Easy" and "flawlessly" are good words. Of course, the jailbreak *procedure* is meant to be as simple and intuitive as it can be, because it should be usable by everyone.

But the effort to get there was anything but easy or flawless. There is a reason why it took almost a month to come up with that method. I'm not going to disclose the details publicly, but rest assured that the Paperwhite is extremely difficult to crack, and that I was about to give up more than once.

Just because the jailbreak method is easy to understand doesn't mean that it was easy to find. In fact, finding this jailbreak method was the most difficult venture I ever tackled.

[jscris]

I, for one, appreciate your work immensely! I really had thought you'd given up.

[Raye]

Good job !! I'd like to see those ads but I really want to enhance my device.

[kacir]

Originally Posted by jscris

Thank you so much!! I uninstalled the previous jailbreak and hacks and this one went flawlessly. USE_ALT_FONTS is working well, too. Happy dance!!

USE_ALT_FONTS works on 5.3.0 even without jailbreak.

[awh_tokyo]

Well, I must say that it was fun doing it through the serial port, but I'm glad that the software-only hack is back so that more people can enjoy it. Great work!

[iluvllulu]

thank you so much! i was about to give up on my paperwhite and buy the kobo glo. you just made my day!

[bartveld]

ixtab, though I have abandoned Kindle altogether, I'd still like to congratulate you on your achievement!

[cristbo]

Grande el Maestro ;-))

Ahora con más ganas de que me llegue

Cheers!
Crist

[back2iam]

Congratulation! I appreciate your work. Thank you.

[aceflor]

Originally Posted by ixtab

This is indeed an unexpected failure. The relevant part is in line 332 of jailbreak.sh:

cp -f "$current" "$backup" && log "Backed up diags passwords to ${backup_relative} on diags partition" || fail "Failed to backup original diags passwords"

It seems like the cp command failed - but it really, really shouldn't, and I have no idea why it did. Does anybody have a clue?

@aceflor: do you keep getting this error every time? As said, you can re-install the jailbreak as many times as you want. Maybe the failure just miraculously goes away on the second attempt...

Yep, I keep getting this error every time.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by aceflor

Yep, I keep getting this error every time.

What firmware version?

@ixtab: Did the build of busybox change between 5.2 and 5.3?
"Change" as in: Not bitwise identical binaries.

[aceflor]

5.3.0, which updated while I had my WiFi on, before that I had a jailbroken 5.2.0 with ixtab Collections Manager on it.

I will now empty my Kindle, reset it, and try again.

[Akirainblack]

Just to add, thank's ixtab. I wasn't in the position of needing this at the moment, due to being on 5.2.0 and then using NiJuLe's bridge to move to 5.3.0.

However I've flashed it anyway, just in case I could bring any further information forward to help. Flashed without a problem and perfectly. Well, minor problem it took a few tries to get my finger to recognise, but the screen does say it might.

[aceflor]

Still Failed after emptying it, resetting it and trying to Jailbreak it again.

[hawhill]

I'm not sure what you mean by "emptying", but my suspicion is that you cleaned your document partition. There was no need to do that in the first place and it likely won't help. As described above, probably your settings partition is full. How that happened is still open for speculation, but yes, it can happen. But you cannot access it via USB mass storage, and I'm not sure if I should really suggest USB networking since that requires you to know very well what you are doing with the shell access.