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Originally Posted by pumpkinwhite
I bought a new color soft yesterday and tried this trick. Unfortunately, it does not work. In the sense that Kindle forces an update after registration. It does not allow you to proceed at all. If you full up the drive, it’ll pop up an unknown error screen (or something to that effect). And then it’ll ask you to rety and refuses to get out of that loop. If you block the device via WiFi, it’ll keep trying and then ask you to choose another WiFi network. If you then make enough space to allow a download, the download will start. If you don’t allow it to finish and install it’ll go back to the previous loop. Basically, whatever you try, it will refuse to let you proceed to the main screen without downloading and installing an update. I kept trying for along time. There is just no way around it. LUCKILY, the update it installed was 5.18.0.1. And so I was able to jailbreak and then install 5.18.1 (and ran the hotfix again etc.). The point is that the trick to fill up space before registration does not work now. Right now it’s installing only 5.18.0.1 update after registration, so a jailbreak is possible. But I imagine very soon they’ll start enforcing 5.18.1 post registration.
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Many thanks for the feedback, filling up the storage is one of the normal ways to avoid updates on an already registered Kindle so I incorrectly assumed it would just work; I didn’t realize that the forced update process upon registration was so aggressive
