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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Amazon terms of use of their software is described here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...B08637AAB6F586
"You may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble, or otherwise tamper with, the Amazon Software, whether in whole or in part, or create any derivative works from or of the Amazon Software." |
Irrelevant.
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Of course, Amazon reps may not even be aware of this and may not check any returns for firmware modifications.
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How utterly true. As the knowledgeable dev team here and anyone who has dealt with the issue knows very well.
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However, if jail breaking causes problems, one has still lost time going down this path.
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You are assuming for no reason whatsoever in the slightest (and that has already been explained to you) that the problem has anything to do with jailbreaking.
Le me clarify.
The problem has nothing to do with jailbreaking!!!
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If one knows what they are doing, then fine. If one is in doubt, the best way is to just use the Amazon firmware as is and not do any modifications.
I've owned five Kindles and never did any jail breaking. So far as I am concerned, they work just fine in plain vanilla.
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Then you are more than welcome to guide people IN YOUR AREA OF EXPERTISE, the vanilla Kindle.
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Finally, firmware may be UPDATED in the background and may cause real problems if old versions were jail broken.
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Firmware will and does get updated in the background all the time, and does indeed cause problems. It removes the hacks and modifications by flashing a pristine, fully-working vanilla firmware to the device, which is a damn big problem in my mind -- and has nothing to do with the OP's problem.