MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Tutorial Popcorn - Hardware Jailbreak for KV, KT2, PW2 and PW3 (no serial port, no soldering)

ye379 · 04-25-2023, 02:33 AM

woohoo! confirmed working on my PW3. since i couldn't get my virtualbox workingby recognising the kindle on my mac, i switched over to a windows pc and used @ygjsz's MFGTool.exe.

To use @beyonik's updates, i renamed/moved his/her's uImage-popcorn-wario file into the MFGTool's Profiles/Linux/OS\ Firmware/kernel.bin.

After jailbreak, just do the usual copying the update_jb_hotfix.bin onto the mounted Kindle drive and do a update-your-kindle. after reboot, do the same with the update_kual_hotfix.bin and then you're basically done!

thanks everyone! i now have a jailbroken 5.15.1.1 (note the extra .1) 7th gen paperwhite!

04-25-2023, 02:33 AM	#79
ye379 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2023 Device: PW3	woohoo! confirmed working on my PW3. since i couldn't get my virtualbox workingby recognising the kindle on my mac, i switched over to a windows pc and used @ygjsz's MFGTool.exe. To use @beyonik's updates, i renamed/moved his/her's uImage-popcorn-wario file into the MFGTool's Profiles/Linux/OS\ Firmware/kernel.bin. After jailbreak, just do the usual copying the update_jb_hotfix.bin onto the mounted Kindle drive and do a update-your-kindle. after reboot, do the same with the update_kual_hotfix.bin and then you're basically done! thanks everyone! i now have a jailbroken 5.15.1.1 (note the extra .1) 7th gen paperwhite!