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Old 10-04-2014, 06:16 PM   #1228
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Originally Posted by dejanrecek View Post
I came across a Kindle PaperWhite v1 on a beach, tried to find the owner locally and via Amazon, without luck. So I thought I might as well use it. Of course Amazon does not let me register so I thought I could change the serial and avoid the blacklist.

I installed the jailbreak and usbnetwork without problem. In Mac Terminal via ssh root@192.168.15.244 and idme -d --serial B023170123760047 I managed a serial change. As you might think no luck with Amazon since the number is a typo... But PW is still working.

Then I foolishly wanted to make a quick cleanup and performed a factory reset.

PW still works i.e. I can still sideload books and read them. However I do not have USB root access nor can I apply any other hacks...

I can live with that however would be nice to have it back.

Hope this sheds some light to my wrongdoings.

Regards, D
It is only the factory reset that killed your add-ins.
Not the serial number change.

The serial number change only locked you out of the PW1 update_*.bin files (since B023 is a K4).

So just take the KindleTool and in the source, swap the locations of B023 and B024 in the code, re-compile.
If I recall correctly, everything you need is in the KindleTool package.

Then use your modified KindleTool to open the USBnet update_*.bin file for the PW1 and then re-create the package specifying the transposed K4 names.

The device Jailbreak is not in an "update_*.bin" style package, but you may have to do some model number swapping in it just the same.

Take everything from the "NiLuJe's snapshots" thread.
(Including the cross-compiler)

Directions for everything are in the packages and/or in our wiki.

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PS: Just changing the serial number is not enough to get Amazon to accept your device.
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