Thread: Request for BIN file that Disables Updating
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Old 04-10-2011, 07:05 AM   #26
agocs
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Originally Posted by dsmid View Post
If you want to disable even downloading of the update file to your Kindle, take a look at this.
fake_update.zip contains 10 MB file named FWUOupdate-10-553210206-558700031.bin.partdldtmp.partial. Put this file in the root of your user store. If your current firmware has different release number than 553210206, rename the file appropriately.

This 10 MB file with dummy contents will utterly confuse the downloader because the real update file size is about 7 MB. It won't be able to continue the download.
I have a jailbraked (Yifan Lu) 3.1 Kindle. So now I'm a bit worrying about later updates (3.2?). Do you think this fake update hack works for v3.1 too? Or does not?

Thanks!
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