Tools Snapshots of NiLuJe's hacks

[NiLuJe]

Pushed updated packages, with FBInk fixes for progress bars on legacy Kindles, and a few KFX fixes in the ScreenSavers hacks, which should hopefully take care of @Ruskie_it's issue without horribly breaking anything else .

[Antinoos]

Hi NiLuJe,

in your latest build, there's obviously a problem in KUAL Helper's "menu.json" file ... the single quotes around 'KindlePaperWhite4' seem to be not correct - see attached exaple of logfile which is created every time I launch KUAL helper:

KUAL: ***** started v2.7.12-g9623dd8 (20181108,a) on Mon Nov 19 15:08:31 GMT-6:51100 2018
KUAL: "/mnt/us/extensions/helper": JSON "if": "KindleTouch" -m "KindlePaperWhite" -m "KindlePaperWhite2" -m "KindleBasic" -m "KindleVoyage" -m "KindlePaperWhite3" -m "KindleOasis" -m  "KindleBasic2" -m "KindleOasis2" -m 'KindlePaperWhite4' -m || || || || || || || || || : invalid expression
KUAL: "/mnt/us/extensions/helper": JSON "if": "KindleTouch" -m "KindlePaperWhite" -m "KindlePaperWhite2" -m "KindleBasic" -m "KindleVoyage" -m  "KindlePaperWhite3" -m "KindleOasis" -m  "KindleBasic2" -m "KindleOasis2" -m 'KindlePaperWhite4' -m || || || || || || || || || : invalid expression

[NiLuJe]

@Antinoos: Agh, crap.

Thanks, will fix (of course, I somehow managed to mess up a few c/p strategically placed in extensions I did not bother to test... ).

EDIT: That, or gawk is more lenient? Hmm, will have to test that theory...

[Antinoos]

The latter, I suppose... I don't use gawk, so the internal interpreter is used - and this seems to be more strict about allowed string delimiters.

[NiLuJe]

Just pushed updated snapshots to fix this, thanks .

[Gaalxy]

The latest Update_fonts_5.16.N_k2_dx_k3_install.bin in the release kindle-fonts-5.16.N-r15585.tar.xz cannot be recognized as update under Serge A. Levin's 0.5.1 jailbreak for Kindle DX 3.2.1.

The old kindle-fonts-5.16.N-k2 in the release kindle-fonts-5.16.N-k2.zip can be installed successfully. But it doesn't work. (Even the "reboot" file doesn't work). It's Serge A. Levin's 0.5.1 jailbreak for Kindle DX 3.2.1.

It seems kindle-jailbreak-0.13.N.zip cannot work on Kindle DX 3.2.1.

Do you still have time to help? I know they're all legacy...

[knc1]

Wired?
or
Weird?

[Gaalxy]

Sorry, typo, wired.
Even autoreboot doesn't work, although the Update-fonts_5.16.N_dx_install.bin was updated successfully. Jailbreak 0.5.1 from YiFan was updated successfully.

I found lots of successful cases for DXG 3.2.1, but haven't seen one for DX 3.2.1.

Originally Posted by knc1

Wired?
or
Weird?

[knc1]

Did you notice the notice (no pun intended) to replace the JB with the one currently found here?

[Gaalxy]

Definiately, the JB from kindle-jailbreak-0.13.N.zip failed with U007 error.

Originally Posted by knc1

Did you notice the notice (no pun intended) to replace the JB with the one currently found here?

[Gaalxy]

Fixed. Here are the steps for Kindle DX 3.2.1 (upgraded from YiFan's script)
1. Jailbreak with YiFan's 0.5.1. (The only working one)
2. Install Font Hack from kindle-jailbreak-0.13.N.zip. (The latest kindle-fonts-5.16.N-r15585.tar.xz is not working)
3. Extract src/linkfonts/fonts folder from kindle-fonts-5.16.N-r15585.tar.xz, and replace to Kindle DX's /linkfonts/fonts
4. Reboot

[knc1]

Originally Posted by Gaalxy

Definiately, the JB from kindle-jailbreak-0.13.N.zip failed with U007 error.

U007 ?? "Unrecognized file format"
Did you un-archive it?

Are you using the correct jailbreak?
If you have a choice, you must use the one that matches your firmware (K3), not the one that matches your hardware.

[NiLuJe]

Legacy snapshots package cannot be installed through UYK, no matter the JB (spoiler: it's the same key anyway).

Only through MRPI. That's a design decision, to ease packaging, because the "one package per device" rule was driving me nuts, and wastes a ton of space/time/bandwidth.

On the upside, that means you don't have to package them for a weird possibly-not-quite-right model to target Frankensteined DXs.


Also: No, wrong.

Originally Posted by Gaalxy

3. Extract src/linkfonts/fonts folder from kindle-fonts-5.16.N-r15585.tar.xz, and replace to Kindle DX's /linkfonts/fonts

Don't do that. There's an install script, it does fairly key install stuff. If there was only a folder to put somewhere, it'd have been packaged that way in the first place (see: KUAL extensions).


Also, you can't mix JBs, that's why the install fails, it's a safety feature to avoid shooting yourself in the foot.
All of this is explained in detail in the JB thread.


Please stop running around doing random stuff like a headless chicken, because you're bound to do something terribly wrong at some point...

[knc1]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

- - - -
On the upside, that means you don't have to package them for a weird possibly-not-quite-right model to target Frankensteined DXs.
- - - - -

This time, I actually opened the archive posted and found that it is still filled with a zillion different, model specific, install files.


The K2 ... K3 archive has not (yet) been converted to a single, universal, install file.
So yeah, it is possible to pick the "wrong" JB install file (provided the user does open the archive).

[NiLuJe]

@knc1: Yeah, the JB itself is still UYK-compatible, because there'd be an obvious chicken'n egg problem otherwise .