Thread: PW3 FW 5.9.6.1 Software Jailbreak for PW3
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Old 06-30-2019, 11:37 PM   #151
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post
I do wonder about this.

I've unpacked and compared customer and factory firmware versions of both PW3 5.9.6.1 and PW4 5.10.1.3. In both cases, they were identical except for /usr/local/ on factory.

To be honest, I'm guessing the reason we're even able to extract factory firmware is because that's what gets loaded to the Kindle and the excess stuff is just removed via ;shpm.
Open the u-image package and check there ...
That is where updates happen.


Hmm...
You may need access to a Linux system (a Kindle should do) to take the image apart into a directory layout.
The backup script that I posted here includes the utility to test the u-image files, so I bet that the same utility will take them apart for you.
But then, maybe I have forgotten what it was that I did back then.
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