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lrpirlet · 04-03-2021, 08:02 AM

I am running 5.13.3 on my pw3 kindle... I keep my kindle on airplane mode to avoid the "nice" Amazon "automatic update".

(I think of that as an unbearable intrusion on my private life... I accept to consider that the software on MY kindle is only made available to me... I refuse to admit that it gives ANYONE BUT ME the right to change the said software... you dictator Amazon... but that is another story, excuse the rambling)

Of course, this attitude from Amazon prevent me to get any book from Amazon, unless of course I can control MY KINDLE. I downloaded the "renameotabin.zip" file, unpacked it and copied it in the extentions folder in my kindle...

KUAL now has a new "rename OTA binaries" entry. Inside it, I activated the Rename, the kindle rebooted...

I verified that both the *ota* files are renamed and the no *ota* process exists... I did get out of airplane mode, waited a few minutes, the folder named "update.bin.tmp.partial" was still a folder... So I synchronized the kindle with my account in Amazon, and it did so, but did not try to download any update.bin...

So A BIG THANKS for this. (needless to say, the kindle is back in airplane mode)

04-03-2021, 08:02 AM	#44
lrpirlet Connoisseur Posts: 96 Karma: 40 Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: Belgium (sorry, I am from the Walloon side of the country and I speak french only) Device: PW3, Kobo Libra H2O	Thank, a little gem this one, since update.bin.tmp.partial is inactive I am running 5.13.3 on my pw3 kindle... I keep my kindle on airplane mode to avoid the "nice" Amazon "automatic update". (I think of that as an unbearable intrusion on my private life... I accept to consider that the software on MY kindle is only made available to me... I refuse to admit that it gives ANYONE BUT ME the right to change the said software... you dictator Amazon... but that is another story, excuse the rambling) Of course, this attitude from Amazon prevent me to get any book from Amazon, unless of course I can control MY KINDLE. I downloaded the "renameotabin.zip" file, unpacked it and copied it in the extentions folder in my kindle... KUAL now has a new "rename OTA binaries" entry. Inside it, I activated the Rename, the kindle rebooted... I verified that both the ota files are renamed and the no ota process exists... I did get out of airplane mode, waited a few minutes, the folder named "update.bin.tmp.partial" was still a folder... So I synchronized the kindle with my account in Amazon, and it did so, but did not try to download any update.bin... So A BIG THANKS for this. (needless to say, the kindle is back in airplane mode)