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Old 01-04-2024, 11:45 PM   #10
KetchupCider
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
Never ever install any firmware earlier than the original model release on any kindle. (Unless you want to brick it. Most of the time the kindle will silently delete it, but you never know what might happen except that it won't be good. Kindle firmware makes all kinds of assumptions about the hardware it is running on.)
Definitely, that makes sense for sure! Thanks for confirming; better safe than sorry!

I guess I'm wondering then, have there been any reports of people successfully downgrading a PW5 to an existing firmware for that device? I could definitely see a case where many would brick their PW5 downgrading to any version with the old interface (since the device was not even around then), but I'm now curious about going to a version like 5.14.2 on a PW5, since that version was around after the PW5 was released.

I checked the downgrade thread and searched forum topics, but I haven't yet found any reports of successful downgrades (or bricks, for that matter) for the PW5 downgrading to 5.14.x versions. Figured I'd ask about it in case I'd missed anything!
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