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Originally Posted by BionicGecko
Your Kindle absolutely has to be registered in order to use WinterBreak; I wouldn't trust your sources who say otherwise 
Now this is a bit of a conundrum, as in all likelihood the latest FW (5.18.1) will be automatically downloaded during the registration, and most reports so far indicate that WinterBreak can't be installed on 12th gen Kindles already updated to 5.18.1, as access via USB to some required folders has been blocked. There is one report of someone who managed to run WinterBreak by copying the files using Linux, but not much is known about the circumstances yet, and this shouldn't be considered foolproof at this point.
Perhaps one way to go about this would be as follows: after powering on your Kindle, but before connecting it to Wifi, connect it to your computer via USB and fill the storage with random files, leaving only a few megabytes of free space (i.e. not enough space for the firmware update to be stored), and then connect the Kindle to Wifi and register. This should allow you to run the original software your Kindle shipped with, which should be vulnerable to WinterBreak. Then after installing the jailbreak, you can update to 5.18.1, or avoid updates with renameOTAbins, etc. and finally delete the random files from your device. |
The post above was meant as a reply to you, misclicked! Thanks again!