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Originally Posted by emalvick
It's been a long time since I've been on this forum. I just bought a Kindle PW3, and it came with 5.8.9.2 on it. I was able to stop it from upgrading forward, but of course with 5.8.9.2, it was too late.
I can't complain. Years ago I jailbroke my Keyboard Kindle. I honestly didn't think I had used it much except the collection manager. I came here hoping I might be able to use it again, but alas it seems like I won't.
I'll be patient, but it sounds like there isn't much hope going forward. I see references to potential new releases, but I would expect that as long as Amazon know they've blocked further jailbreaking, they won't do anything to go backward. I'm only slightly saddened as my reading habits don't really need my kindle to be jail-broken.
I do appreciate all the efforts I see have gone on since I last looked into this. In all honesty when my previous kindle finally broke and I bought this PW3, I really figured the ability to jail-break a kindle would have been long-dead.
I know this doesn't matter here (I have complained to Amazon), but I really wish in killing the ability to jail-break, Amazon would actually work to implement features the jail-break allowed us to have. Maybe we wouldn't need to if they would add a few more features.
Again, it's just a thanks to all the effort in this thread and forum. I'll keep an eye out for any develops, but my expectations won't be too high.
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Originally Posted by Klapo
I have bought an PW3 on Amazon.de yesterday, after shipping I have turned it ON and connected to my WiFi, whole process was rather quick so I think it was shipped with 5.8.10 from the start. Right now I'm returning it and maybe try again. Has anyone some information where I can get PW3 with firmware older than 5.8.10 ?
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Bases on what we learned when people were getting kindles that ahipped with 5.8.9.0.1, there is a chance that you can downgrade with whatever version actually ships on the device. - Fresh out of the box version, I have a belief tha tthe downgrade protection doesnt actually get applied until the kindle *upgrades* after you take it out of the box - that is to say, that the factory imaging system does not set up the downgrade protection.
But obviously we would need someone to try it.
If someone orders a new one, or did skip the wifi setup, these are the steps to try:
1. Open the kindle box and look at your brand new kindle.
2. Be excited, kindles are awesome
3. turn the kindle on
4. go through the setup until you get to the wifi step.
5. Press 'connect to wifi' or similar, to get your list of wifi hotspot names.
6. On the list of hotspot names, press the "[x]" in the corner to cancel
7. Press "continue setting up later on the bottom of the screen
Now you have a kindle that doesnt connect to wifi!
Try to do the downgrade in the instructions - worst case, it won't work. Best case, it downgrades, and you can continue the rest of the instructions.
Please post back if this does or does not work.