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Originally Posted by Tiersten
The hacks themselves are mostly working.
The jailbreak itself which allowed the installation/uninstallation of the hacks however has been broken. This means any hacks you had installed prior to 3.1 can not be currently uninstalled.
The worry is that if an easy method of uninstallation isn't found then a future update may have issues due to the presence of these hacks. Another worry is that these hacks may cause some warranty issues with Amazon but that hasn't actually been proven either way at the moment.
As you're already on 3.1, there is nothing else to do done for now.
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I don't want to go back to a vanilla Kindle, but... I take it that the consensus is that the safest thing to do is to uninstall the hack/s and jailbreak before installing the 3.1 firmware, just in case keeping the older jailbreak/hack files (which can no longer be uninstalled after the update) interferes with future firmware updates and/or causes problems with getting warranty service from Amazon?
Personally, I am not that concerned with the warranty issue, but if keeping the old jailbreak/hack on my Kindle and then upgrading to 3.1 might cause problems with future updates I do find that worrying.
Silly conspiracy theory thoughts
- do you think Amazon's Kindle developers deliberately added in some sort of script to build in the "can't uninstall jailbreak/hacks" feature to cause problems with those of us naughty enough to want our own screensavers and fonts, or was this just an unintentional consequence?
That would teach us and prevent others from going down this same dark path!
To my (limited) knowledge, this is the first firmware update that disables the ability of the end user to go back to a "vanilla" set up....
Holly