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Originally Posted by baalajimaestro
Would recommend not downgrade on that grounds. You may end up with a bricked kindle like me!
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Well, maybe we now talk massively at cross-purposes?!
The one and only topic in this thread is software jailbreaking touch kindles. This is only possible if the given device isn't already on a fw version 5.8.8 and up. E.g. I've bought my KT3 running on 5.8.0 (the consumer version of course, not the special factory build). As I've heard, they're "out of the box" now on 5.8.2 or so generally if bought in electronic marts. If bought via Amazon or more specifically in the case of "refurbished" devices at a discount price, they're often on 5.8.7.0.1 - and this is still fine, because below 5.8.8.
Then you
downgrade to the special initial factory testing fw: in the case of KT3 to "5.8.0 initial" (this has a lower build version than the production fw!) and can do the jailbreak via ;installHtml command and install the hotfix. After that you
may upgrade to any newer official fw, even to the very latest 5.8.9.2. This is up to your decision. In principle you
might also stay on the very early factory test version if you don't neeed any new features, but like still to have the very special internal semicolon-commands present only in these test builds.
But you could also upgrade to 5.8.7.0.1 (irrespective of the primarily installed version, which, BTW, completely has gone via the mentioned first downgrade to the test build) to be able to still again make the downgrade. Or you say: "No, I'd like to have the very, very latest firmware running!" and upgrade to 5.8.9.2 - the jailbreak will survive. And this will also be true for all and any version between the initial version number to the latest. If, in the case of a KT3, one says "I'd like to run fw 5.8.5 and no version later" productively after jailbreaking, he's free to do so.