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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
We are not talking special offers, we are talking updates.
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And the updates are installed by EXISTING code ALREADY in the kindle (which does NOT allow updates when that folder exists while you have older firmware installed). Amazon cannot install anything on kindles where this special file prevents them, UNTIL you install newer firmware for which this method no longer works.
However, after you install newer firmware that deletes that folder before continuing the update, then of course, this method will no longer prevent unwanted OTA updates. However, it still works for most firmware versions that we know of, at this time...
But lab126 seems to have hired somebody "smarter than the average bear" (probably aspie) recently, so who knows how locked-down future firmwares will become (and recent firmwares are already pretty darned tight, except for serial port access, and they may eventually lock that too) -- then we will need to shift our interests to non-amazon devices perhaps (the Nook crowd is quite active at this time). And of course, if you read my "
fastboot manifesto" thread (regarding earlier kindles with unlocked bootloaders), the older kindles will always be hackable, no matter WHAT firmware amazon pushes at them. Kubrick to the rescue!