New Paperwhite woes :(

Mondo100 · 01-05-2015, 02:54 PM

Hi All,

For christmas i treated myself to a new kindle paperwhite (v2) which is a replacement for an old non touch kindle running 4.1.

I had had jailbroken my old one and mainly used the wallpaper function. which was great.

I went to do this to my new kindle pw2 and i found that it had shipped with od 5.5.1 (unable to jailbreak)

so i found and followed this article to downgrade the os LINK and once downgraded i followed this guide for jailbreaking. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=186645

and then i followed this guide for setting up the wallpapers https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=195474

this all worked perfectly and thank you to NiLuJe for some well written guides.

however once i disabled airplane mode my kindle decided to perform an update on its own

and is now on os 5.6.1. This has broken either the screensaver hack OR the jailbreak. I have tried re-installing links but it wont allow me to 'update kindle' from settings with the linkss .bin file on the root.

I have also tried running this update https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...postcount=1597 which does go through however on completion still doesnt allow me to update linkss or uninstall it.

to confirm it was jailbroken before the update

is there anything i can do to get this back to a working jailbroken state?

Thanks

Mondo

NiLuJe · 01-05-2015, 05:14 PM

@Mondo100: Read the FW 5.6 section of the JB thread. (spoiler: use MRPI to install stuff).

-- Also, moved to the Dev corner

semicomatose · 01-12-2015, 07:54 PM

What is MRPI, and which Jailbreak thread are you talking about?

knc1 · 01-12-2015, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by semicomatose

What is MRPI, and which Jailbreak thread are you talking about?

Good choice of user name.

pghaworth · 01-13-2015, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by semicomatose

What is MRPI, and which Jailbreak thread are you talking about?

MRPI thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=251143
JB thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=186645

I suggest you read all the info and cautions on both threads before proceeding and as NiLuJe suggested pay particular attention to the "FW 5.6 section" of the JB thread.

knc1 · 01-13-2015, 10:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pghaworth

MRPI thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=251143
JB thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=186645

I suggest you read all the info and cautions on both threads before proceeding and as NiLuJe suggested pay particular attention to the "FW 5.6 section" of the JB thread.

Thanks!

pghaworth · 01-13-2015, 11:06 AM

You're welcome. I try to help where I can. When I first came here I had a lot of questions (and still do). This is the best way I can give back.

01-05-2015, 02:54 PM	#1
Mondo100 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2015 Device: Kindle PW2	New Paperwhite woes :( Hi All, For christmas i treated myself to a new kindle paperwhite (v2) which is a replacement for an old non touch kindle running 4.1. I had had jailbroken my old one and mainly used the wallpaper function. which was great. I went to do this to my new kindle pw2 and i found that it had shipped with od 5.5.1 (unable to jailbreak) so i found and followed this article to downgrade the os LINK and once downgraded i followed this guide for jailbreaking. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=186645 and then i followed this guide for setting up the wallpapers https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=195474 this all worked perfectly and thank you to NiLuJe for some well written guides. however once i disabled airplane mode my kindle decided to perform an update on its own and is now on os 5.6.1. This has broken either the screensaver hack OR the jailbreak. I have tried re-installing links but it wont allow me to 'update kindle' from settings with the linkss .bin file on the root. I have also tried running this update https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...postcount=1597 which does go through however on completion still doesnt allow me to update linkss or uninstall it. to confirm it was jailbroken before the update is there anything i can do to get this back to a working jailbroken state? Thanks Mondo

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01-05-2015, 05:14 PM	#2
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@Mondo100: Read the FW 5.6 section of the JB thread. (spoiler: use MRPI to install stuff). -- Also, moved to the Dev corner

01-12-2015, 07:54 PM	#3
semicomatose Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2015 Device: Kindle PaperWhite 2	What is MRPI, and which Jailbreak thread are you talking about?

01-13-2015, 11:06 AM	#7
pghaworth Fervent Pleasure Seeker Posts: 1,224 Karma: 712073 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: The Windmills of My Mind Device: Clara HD	You're welcome. I try to help where I can. When I first came here I had a lot of questions (and still do). This is the best way I can give back.

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