Thread: OTA blocking
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Old 01-17-2018, 02:28 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by knc1 View Post
It looks like firmware 5.9.2 (and maybe earlier) can defeat our current means (a directory name) of blocking over-the-air updates.
As for myself, I've never ever connected my Kindles to the internet. (The only situation I'd do that is if it run completely out of battery power and the internal clock - namely the date - was reset, because there's no way to set the date via a user command.) But i've helped some of my friends jailbreaking their devices. I then updated to fw 5.8.11 and did create the OTA blocker dir (to make a bit more sure: also set it read-only). They're using their Kindles normally with Amazon accounts, and they did not report any unwanted OTA updates until now...
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