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shamanNS · 06-21-2025, 10:48 AM

New certificate expires in 2099.

DNSB · 06-21-2025, 02:42 PM

So the chances are good that most of us will expire before the certicate.

lSpencer · 08-11-2025, 08:25 PM

This is an older thread and I am not sure if anyone will see this question or not. I noticed the KUAL expired permissions error today and was able to fix it using the tools provided here (thanks all!). I also have a similar error on the `kif' application that lets you play interactive word games (see: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=101876). I knew it was a stretch, but I was hoping that the KUAL fix would magically fix kif as well. Are there any kif users here that have run into this issue? TIA

shamanNS · 08-12-2025, 07:29 AM

@lSpencer My guess would be that you or someone else also needs to re-sign that KIF file using a key from the new keystore.

lSpencer · 08-12-2025, 03:57 PM

@shamanNS. Thank you. Can you point me to a few more details/threads on how I would do that? Some of this is new to me. TIA.

zilbook · 10-20-2025, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aha

Actually there's a way to install the usbnetwork hack without KUAL. See this post. That post also has a shortcut to change the time without even installing the hack. I also wrote up long and probably redundant instructions for how to use usbnetworking after installation here if you don't want to use the bin file shortcut.

BUT: It looks like NiLuJe updated the KUAL files here and also attached updated certifications here, which should make all of this unnecessary

Yesterday I got the certification exipred problem too, I don't know why so late though.

I downloaded the updates and put them in the proper paths (kual v2 in the /document path, the updater in the main path and the new cert in /var/local/java/keystore/) but once unmounted the kindle nothing happened, no trigger to install the update.

Can anyone please write the steps you should follow to complete the update? Maybe I'm forgetting something.

Thanks in advance

08-12-2025, 07:29 AM	#19
shamanNS Wizard Posts: 1,136 Karma: 12345678 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Serbia Device: Kindle PW5, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle PW1	@lSpencer My guess would be that you or someone else also needs to re-sign that KIF file using a key from the new keystore. Last edited by shamanNS; 08-12-2025 at 07:52 AM.

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06-21-2025, 10:48 AM	#16
shamanNS Wizard Posts: 1,136 Karma: 12345678 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Serbia Device: Kindle PW5, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle PW1	New certificate expires in 2099.

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DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,913 Karma: 174315098 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	So the chances are good that most of us will expire before the certicate.

08-11-2025, 08:25 PM	#18
lSpencer Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: kindle3w	This is an older thread and I am not sure if anyone will see this question or not. I noticed the KUAL expired permissions error today and was able to fix it using the tools provided here (thanks all!). I also have a similar error on the `kif' application that lets you play interactive word games (see: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=101876). I knew it was a stretch, but I was hoping that the KUAL fix would magically fix kif as well. Are there any kif users here that have run into this issue? TIA

08-12-2025, 03:57 PM	#20
lSpencer Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: kindle3w	@shamanNS. Thank you. Can you point me to a few more details/threads on how I would do that? Some of this is new to me. TIA.