Thread: KindleDrip — From Your Kindle’s Email Address to Using Your Credit Card
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Old 01-23-2021, 01:08 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by tesseractcat View Post
You don't actually have to enable wifi to access an image from the browser. Instead, you can access local html via file:/// links.

Using that, I made a local sudoku game: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=321651.
Later firmware versions (5.12/13?) nag you to connect to internet-enabled wifi before even allowing to launch the Experimental Browser.

I remember encountering that issue on my up-to-date non-JB Kindle while trying to access the Calibre server on LAN when the internet was down. It's quite annoying how much more pro-active the new firmware versions are about phoning home.

Even skipping wifi config during initial setup is a bigger pain now. I upgraded to 5.13.4 and factory reset in order to verify PW4 diags downgrade no longer works. I had to go through several screens and choose manual setup to add a fake SSID before it eventually stopped trying to force me to connect to the internet.
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