Hi, first post here. I'm trying to jailbreak a Kindle PW1 but ran into an issue. (I tried to jailbreak my Kindle PW2 yesterday, but alas! It had one of the cursed firmware versions. So I had to trade for this PW1
Following the initial instructions and the
Legacy devices, jail breaks link in the OP, I was able to successfully downgrade the PW1's firmware to 5.3.3.
Now I'm on step 5 of the OP's instructions. I got main-htmlviewer.tar.gz from the
Factory Image Jail Break link and placed it on the Kindle's top-level directory next to 'documents/'. Then after ejecting, removing the USB cable and entering ';installHtml' into the search bar (and hitting the return button), nothing happens! The screen doesn't flash, it doesn't reboot, and when I check the Kindle's files again there is no 'Jail Broken' document under the 'documents/' directory.
Any ideas for how to troubleshoot this and get the jailbreak working?
I'm amazed by the elaborate hacks and scripts put together here by volunteers to help people get control of their devices. Thanks for all the great work!
Update: I just noticed that after downgrading the firmware, maybe now I should no longer be using the OP's instructions, but rather I should turn to the
Kindle Touch/PW1/PW2 5.0.x - 5.4.4.2 JailBreak. Plus FW 5.x USBNetwork. instructions. Is that right?
Update 2: Hunch from first Update was right - I just successfully got the jailbreak from that link working! So sorry for the noise and please disregard my earlier question above.