Thread: Possible new downgrade method
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Old 05-15-2022, 02:13 PM   #17
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
One thing to consider is that Kindles report the build number to Amazon and that controls how the server interacts with the device. Putting in an incorrect value may cause problems and also advertise to Amazon that the device is jail broken.
Too bad, since it would have been a simple way to block unwanted updates.

But going in the other direction (lower version number), could this be a way to block KFX delivery? (possibly subject to constraint of lowest version ever available for a particular model)
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