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Originally Posted by Junket
@knc1
He may have been referring to the current Kindle 5 Factory Jailbreak snapshot at the beginning of this thread.
Or at least this is an example of merchant.zip being zero bytes.
K5 Factory Jailbreak | kindle-jb-factory-1.3-r16160.tar.xz | 2019-Dec-02 20:42:17 | 3.9K | 77352816c33761274a1cd608b8621707 | Factory JB
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So in this case we can guess.
";merchant" is a named search bar expression used in Amazon's "factory" (Q.A. production line only) firmware not in any "customer" firmware (at least that we know of).
We (the developers of identifying the factory's internal use only firmware) did not start doing so prior to the PW2. We no longer had access to the "factory (use only)" firmware for the K5 and PW1.
IIRC, that ";merchant" entry should be missing from the archive, not present and empty.
I.E: You have discovered an artifact of our archive packaging, not discovered a way to jail break the older (K5 and PW1) series 5.x firmwares. We (that same "we") never saved copies of the K5 and PW1 factory use only firmware packages prior to the PW2.
For the "we" credits, go to the link:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=275877
Open the spoiler ...
Inside the spoiler's text, continue down to the "Credits" spoiler, and open that spoiler.
There you will find the credits for the people involved in capturing the "factory (use only)" firmware packages.