Thread: Kindle with old (non-updated) firmware
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Old 02-09-2022, 05:00 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by DanielSt View Post
Thank you. Well, I've done the jailbreak and I have the file of the old firmware version. Now is just the question of the next step so I can install the old firmware.

The link to instructions from katadelos says to download and use Kindletool, which I tried but which does not work on my computer. There are some other parts of the instructions on the link which don't seem entirely clear to me. I think part of the issue may be that I have been following instructions from parts of two different links so far.

So in summary: thus far I have jailbroken my Kindle basic 7 (which evidently corresponds to the abbreviation KT2), installed something called hotfix (if I remember the title correctly), installed Mobile Read Package Installer and KUAL, and using the previous two installed the Cowards Rescue Pack. I have downloaded the old firmware version for my Kindle and it is sitting on my PC.

What would be the next steps?

Thanks again.
If you're having trouble with KindleTool, I'd give NiLuJe a shout - it's his tool so I'm sure that he'd know what's up.

Once you've got the rootfs.img.gz, you should be able to follow the instructions from the linked thread directly - ignore what I said earlier about using gzip to decompress the rootfs, I'd forgotten that you can directly write the compressed rootfs to the device using zcat.
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