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Old 12-03-2019, 09:21 AM   #706
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Originally Posted by knc1 View Post
";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.
Afaik, the K5 Factory Jailbreak is intended for:
PW2 KV PW3 KOA KT3 KOA2 PW4 KT4

The Merchant.zip file is hard linked to FactoryJB/src/whee.zip. Using 7-zip, extracting the complete archive gives a 724-byte Merchant.zip file exactly the same as whee.zip.

Trying to extract Merchant.zip by itself throws off an error (cannot create hard link).
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