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Old 02-22-2020, 05:15 AM   #1
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Device: PW2
A way to recover PW3 & PW4 jailbreak without recent hotfix

I have a PW3 and a PW4, and I successfully jailbroke them before, but after upgrading to 5.12.2 firmware, the ;log command can not be run anymore.

I did not install the recent jailbreak hotfix, so I can not recover the ;log command by steps provided in this post. Afterwards I upgraded the Kindle firmware version to 5.12.3.

Yesterday I upgraded the PW4 to 5.12.4 and found the ;log command got recovered accidently.

I will share my experience here, and hope to help those who want to recover the ;log command but have no recent hotfix installed.
  1. Copy the new firmware and emergency.sh together into the root directory of Kindle;
  2. Upgrade the firmware via Kindle's menu button (Menu->Settings->Restart);
  3. After the restart is complete, you will see following three files in the root directory of Kindle:
    • done_emergency.sh
    • old_debug_cmds.json
    • new_debug_cmds.json
  4. Restart your Kindle again, and now you can run ;log command as normal.

In order to verify whether it is a coincidence, I tested using another PW3 with same steps and got the same result.

I do not know why it works, but it does work.
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