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Originally Posted by BionicGecko
It will work, but I would suggest to avoid restarting your Kindle between the moment you fill up the storage and when you install the hotfix; it did happen to me in the past that such “filler” files got deleted after a restart.
Of course you can always wait for a new jailbreak, and it’s also possible HackerDude will find another way to run this exploit which doesn’t involve the now-blocked folder, but there’s no guarantee that there will ever be another jailbreak. Personally I would try the trick above, but of course it’s up to you! 
Edit: it turns out this trick in fact does not work, as mentioned by user pumpkinwhite here. |
Well, I created the dummy files and was able to register the kindle and turned on Airplane Mode straight away. This avoided the automatic install of the latest firmware, Kindle is still in 5.17.0.
Upon reconnecting the kindle to my pc to drop the WB files, I noticed a new update file that I deleted, and one of my dummy file was missing, leaving about 1.5gb of empty storage space instead of the 20MB I originally left.
Now, every time I add this file back and disconnect the Kindle (without even rebooting it) it seems to disappear again, going back to the 1.5gb of empty space.
Is this Amazon’s new trick to prevent the jailbreak? 😒 So I went ahead anyway, dropped the WB files, restarted the kindle, launched the store, turned off airplane mode, the store loads but the jailbreak doesn't launch. Granted I didn't wait too long before turning airplane mode back on, maybe 10s or so.
Tried to reconnect the device to the PC and I see the update.bin.tmp.partial again. Delete it, drop the WB files again (all looking good) and started the process over maybe 2 or 3 times but the jailbreak never launches.
Not sure where things go wrong. Maybe it's relevant to note that the device is shown as MTP although fw is still 5.17.0.
Any help appreciated!