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Originally Posted by zacherry
I have a Paperwhite 2.
I have a soldering iron and some know-how.
Is opening it up and doing the npoland thing helpful at this point?
Can I contribute to a breakthrough here whatsoever?
Instead of asking what I can do, tell me candidly what needs to be done and I'll do it if I can.
Thanks, everyone in this thread.
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Thank you for your offer.
One of the reasons for adding a serial port is for access to the complete firmware image.
npoland has done that for us.
Another reason is to give yourself access to the complete firmware system.
This allows you to:
* Make backups of the images in case you need them in the future.
* Add the 'device Jailbreak' certificate so that your Kpw2 can be updated with our add-in packages.
After adding the 'device Jailbreak' certificate, you probably will not need serial port access again.
Well, at least until Amazon pushes their first update to 5.4.0.
No one can guess in advance what they might do with that update.
NiLuJe has started a thread that consolidates all of his add-in builds. All built to include the Kpw2.
tidklass recently posted a pictorial illustrated description of how to add a connector for the serial port to the case.
I.E: Doing that or similar allows the case to be closed after the addition.
Contributions to the community effort?
As always, testing, testing, testing -
For instance:
The KUAL launcher and its prerequisites are tested and ready for the Kpw2.
But there are a lot of add-in 'Buttons' and only a very few of them have been tested on the Kpw2.
Reports on what has been tried and what the results where on each of them would be a big help to the authors of each.
None of the major sized applications that twobob has (or is in the process of) porting have only been tested on the KT and Kpw1.
He does not have access to a Kpw2.
When (if ever) an end-user Jailbreak vector for the Kpw2 is found, there will be a sudden demand for add-ins (tested on the Kpw2).
So additional 'testers' will be a big help in getting ahead of that demand.
The #kindle-dev IRC channel (chat channel) is your best source for help and guidance.
We (the developers at Mobilread) have stopped giving the lab126 crew public lessons in how to do their job of frustrating end-user control of the device better.
Big dream:
Someday the accounting department of Amazon will total up how many millions of dollars they have spent, and are spending, to frustrate a few people who are only investing big junks of their "hobby time" to keep the Kindle an "open platform".
Bigger dream:
Collect enough volunteers to begin the effort of porting Tizen to the Amazon Kindle hardware.
(Tizen is 110% Open Source and would allow saying bye, bye to Amazon firmware forever.)
I would rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
The sinners are much more fun.