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rrrvxi · 01-03-2015, 03:07 AM

Hello everyone, I just want to share my experience so far. I bought the KP2 few days ago from a eBay seller, I check it and was shipped with the 5.4.3.2 firmware version. I realize that in order to unlock certain features I have to necessarily do the annoying registration process, however, I finally did it to download the dictionaries from the cloud to my kindle. I was aware that there was in the menu the option to update BUT I NEVER clicked it, I just waited to my files to get downloaded, they finished so I put on sleep the device.

To my surprise a few moments later I saw a flickering coming from the screen (it was in sleep) so when I checked the screen says something like "in updating process DO NOT turn off your device", I was scared to screw things up if I press down the power button so I let the process get finished (maybe my newbie error). I cannot believe that amazon FORCES the update silently, WITHOUT THE USER PERMISSION, for example on Android you always get first an notification and you have to agree before the device automatically update, I am so disappointed because of this.

The thing is, as I read in forums, that the current version 5.6.1.0.2 is NOT possible to jailbreak it, at least not without taking apart the kindle and make some soldering, I am totally fine with that since I mod a lot of devices before (TVs, cellphones, gaming consoles, etc), so I know how to solder, but I do not know where to find a guide step by step to what to do, I am completely a newbie with kindle, it is in fact, my first electronic reader I ever owned.

I think I will wait a little to see if something come up about the jailbreak to this version, but if not, I believe I will sooner or later put it by my own with the serial port option that everyone talk about, I will appreciate if someone that already did it could share their knowledge about this matter since I could´t find any videos, guides or tutorials.

Maybe a stupid question, but, is there any chance to get back to my 5.4.3.2 version that the kindle originally shipped with? I hope that someone more capable than me can jailbreak the device, for now I think the best is NOT upgrade anymore, I will never connect again to internet until someone figure it out how to block this annoying auto silently update, anyone knows how?

Well, that's all, I believe that maybe is all about give some time, same thing happen with Xbox 360 consoles for example, they have several MO BO revisions and all of them sooner or later was hacked, last version "corona motherboards" was a little tricky but they finally did it, now, the most recent MO BO called "winchester" is currently not possible to do it, but hey, it will... same thing will happen hopefully with this new kindle software version, that I repeat again, IT INSTALL BY HIS OWN, FORCED WITHOUT USER CONSENT, be aware of that.

01-03-2015, 03:07 AM	#8
rrrvxi Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2015 Device: KP2	Hello everyone, I just want to share my experience so far. I bought the KP2 few days ago from a eBay seller, I check it and was shipped with the 5.4.3.2 firmware version. I realize that in order to unlock certain features I have to necessarily do the annoying registration process, however, I finally did it to download the dictionaries from the cloud to my kindle. I was aware that there was in the menu the option to update BUT I NEVER clicked it, I just waited to my files to get downloaded, they finished so I put on sleep the device. To my surprise a few moments later I saw a flickering coming from the screen (it was in sleep) so when I checked the screen says something like "in updating process DO NOT turn off your device", I was scared to screw things up if I press down the power button so I let the process get finished (maybe my newbie error). I cannot believe that amazon FORCES the update silently, WITHOUT THE USER PERMISSION, for example on Android you always get first an notification and you have to agree before the device automatically update, I am so disappointed because of this. The thing is, as I read in forums, that the current version 5.6.1.0.2 is NOT possible to jailbreak it, at least not without taking apart the kindle and make some soldering, I am totally fine with that since I mod a lot of devices before (TVs, cellphones, gaming consoles, etc), so I know how to solder, but I do not know where to find a guide step by step to what to do, I am completely a newbie with kindle, it is in fact, my first electronic reader I ever owned. I think I will wait a little to see if something come up about the jailbreak to this version, but if not, I believe I will sooner or later put it by my own with the serial port option that everyone talk about, I will appreciate if someone that already did it could share their knowledge about this matter since I could´t find any videos, guides or tutorials. Maybe a stupid question, but, is there any chance to get back to my 5.4.3.2 version that the kindle originally shipped with? I hope that someone more capable than me can jailbreak the device, for now I think the best is NOT upgrade anymore, I will never connect again to internet until someone figure it out how to block this annoying auto silently update, anyone knows how? Well, that's all, I believe that maybe is all about give some time, same thing happen with Xbox 360 consoles for example, they have several MO BO revisions and all of them sooner or later was hacked, last version "corona motherboards" was a little tricky but they finally did it, now, the most recent MO BO called "winchester" is currently not possible to do it, but hey, it will... same thing will happen hopefully with this new kindle software version, that I repeat again, IT INSTALL BY HIS OWN, FORCED WITHOUT USER CONSENT, be aware of that.