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blamwham · 01-28-2014, 10:55 AM

Hi,

I have a PW2 90D4 with firmware 5.4.2. Bought in Australia.

I tried to get a grip on how to do the Jailbreak before I even turned on my new toy. I lost track of where I read what (I had to start way back at 'what can a Kindle can do'). Then I decided I will have to see if it all becomes clear while I actually do the jailbreak (and steps after that).

My first question is should " **** JAILBREAK **** " remain visible?

It appeared on my Kindle screen as expected. I restarted my Kindle, looked in Settings, and the Jailbreak text was gone. I plugged the Kindle back into my Linux laptop. The 'Kindle' directory appeared to be as it was before I extracted the files into it.
So I did a 'Reset Device' and repeated the above with the same result. During this second time I also enabled wi-fi and registered my device (not sure on the order I did these things - it was one whole hour ago

).

I decided I should probably ask silly questions before I brick my new toy.

If by chance I am on target, could you please point me to the steps to back-up my kindle in case I do brick it? Part of my confusion is around what I should be doing regarding the rescue pack, my version, and the scary 'README_FIRST' in the kindle-usbnet-0.15.N.zip file.

Thank you for reading. Sorry if I have missed the obvious.

01-28-2014, 10:55 AM	#659
blamwham Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2014 Device: Kindle PW2 5.4.2	'Jailbreak' sign and then back-up Hi, I have a PW2 90D4 with firmware 5.4.2. Bought in Australia. I tried to get a grip on how to do the Jailbreak before I even turned on my new toy. I lost track of where I read what (I had to start way back at 'what can a Kindle can do'). Then I decided I will have to see if it all becomes clear while I actually do the jailbreak (and steps after that). My first question is should " ** JAILBREAK ** " remain visible? It appeared on my Kindle screen as expected. I restarted my Kindle, looked in Settings, and the Jailbreak text was gone. I plugged the Kindle back into my Linux laptop. The 'Kindle' directory appeared to be as it was before I extracted the files into it. So I did a 'Reset Device' and repeated the above with the same result. During this second time I also enabled wi-fi and registered my device (not sure on the order I did these things - it was one whole hour ago ). I decided I should probably ask silly questions before I brick my new toy. If by chance I am on target, could you please point me to the steps to back-up my kindle in case I do brick it? Part of my confusion is around what I should be doing regarding the rescue pack, my version, and the scary 'README_FIRST' in the kindle-usbnet-0.15.N.zip file. Thank you for reading. Sorry if I have missed the obvious.