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Old 03-17-2016, 03:44 PM   #877
jsheahawk
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Quote:
Originally Posted by knc1 View Post
Thanks, I think I have it now -

You started at (which has the jb.zip attachment):
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=273

You stopped following that post before you reached:


You then installed the initial part of the complete jailbreak using kaznelson's off-network method:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=769

At which point you should have gone back to the second half of BD's post (quoted in part above - note that I swapped the two sentences).
Ah, but you didn't . . . (story starts to turn downhill about here).

Then you went ahead and did an Amazon (full) image update.

At which point, yes, you are SOL.

= = = =

The first half of the instructions did just the very minimum to have a working jailbreak.
The second half of the instructions **would have** install the "survival kit" for the jailbreak.
Then the Amazon (full) image update over-wrote what you had done in the first part of BD's instructions.

Translation of all of the above:
Your device is in the same state it would have been in if you had never done the first part of the jailbreak instructions.

(It could have been worse, you could have pressed: "Erase All" somewhere along the line.)
That's what I figured. Thanks for the reply. And if anyone who is about to try this jailbreak is reading this...READ MORE!
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