Tools Introducing WinterBreak - Better Late Than Never

[showgood]

also I'm wondering does this have anything to do with the fact that I have jailbreak the device before the firmware upgrade kicks in followed by my factory reset?

[Shakeupyourbones]

Originally Posted by showgood

Thanks a lot! I have just tried and does not seem to work, it still just go to normal Kindle store page instead of the winterbreak. I felt this hole has been patched by 5.17.3?

I wish I knew my friend. I still haven’t been able to successfully get past this step for the first time. I’ve done the steps, plus the troubleshooting, in every configuration I can imagine to get it to work without luck. Dozens of restarts/resets, redownloaded files, tried different wifi networks, turned off two factor authentication, deleted and merged sandbox files, tried doing the steps quickly, and also slowly in case things needed to process in the background, etc. etc. No luck, same amazon store “unexpected error” message over and over again. I think what I’m going to do now is find an older kindle on marketplace or something and see if that works. I’m too stubborn to give up, I’m just out of options with my Oasis 10th gen.

[Shakeupyourbones]

Originally Posted by showgood

also I'm wondering does this have anything to do with the fact that I have jailbreak the device before the firmware upgrade kicks in followed by my factory reset?

I’ve never gotten this far, but in my reading I’ve come across multiple people mentioning that there’s a step in the process for disabling OTA updates to keep this from occurring.

[Guredol]

I recently did the jailbrake following this guide :

https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/ and did it until the end successfully, but

once i installed this packet (by adding the koreader folder dir in the root directory in kindle and added the extension content to the extension folder):

koreader-kindlehf-v2024.11-223-g154ec621d_2025-03-03.zip

the KOreader options appeared in the kindle but when i tap "Start KOReader" nothing happens.

Can someone help?

[Ninjabot64]

Hi, anyone know what to do after my kindle updated itself from 5.16 to 5.17? I did use renameotabin but i think i did it wrong, but now going back to main topic. Anyone know what to do after it updates itself? Whenever i Try to start KUAL i get "The select ed application could not be started. Please try again." error. Anyone know what to do in this situation?

[BionicGecko]

Originally Posted by Guredol

I recently did the jailbrake following this guide :

https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/ and did it until the end successfully, but

once i installed this packet (by adding the koreader folder dir in the root directory in kindle and added the extension content to the extension folder):

koreader-kindlehf-v2024.11-223-g154ec621d_2025-03-03.zip

the KOreader options appeared in the kindle but when i tap "Start KOReader" nothing happens.

Can someone help?

If you extracted the zip file and copied over the whole extracted structure onto the root of your Kindle I’m not sure why it wouldn’t work. You can perhaps try to install KOL; it will add an icon to your library to launch KOReader directly without going through KUAL. You can make it prettier with the coversetter extension.

[BionicGecko]

Originally Posted by Ninjabot64

Hi, anyone know what to do after my kindle updated itself from 5.16 to 5.17? I did use renameotabin but i think i did it wrong, but now going back to main topic. Anyone know what to do after it updates itself? Whenever i Try to start KUAL i get "The select ed application could not be started. Please try again." error. Anyone know what to do in this situation?

Try to run the hotfix again. If that doesn’t work, redo the whole jailbreak.

[BionicGecko]

Originally Posted by showgood

Thanks a lot! I have just tried and does not seem to work, it still just go to normal Kindle store page instead of the winterbreak. I felt this hole has been patched by 5.17.3?

Originally Posted by Shakeupyourbones

I’ve never gotten this far, but in my reading I’ve come across multiple people mentioning that there’s a step in the process for disabling OTA updates to keep this from occurring.

I don’t really know why you guys are unable to run the jailbreak; however I can confirm that it normally runs fine on 5.17.3, i.e. it wasn’t patched, your issue must be something else.

Also, disabling the OTA updates actually requires the Kindle to be jailbroken, so it’s not possible to prevent updates until the jailbreak is complete.

[Frogm4n]

Originally Posted by BionicGecko

Also, disabling the OTA updates actually requires the Kindle to be jailbroken, so it’s not possible to prevent updates until the jailbreak is complete.

And, you actually have to run the utility and select Rename, which should reboot the Kindle. If you don't run it, or it doesn't reboot, then nothing has changed and OTA is not disabled. Just installing the package is not enough.

[JSWolf]

I suggest posting in the first post of this thread the correct way to back off from the jailbreak as it seems a lot of people are doing it wrong with a reset that could end up with a brick/doorstop.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by helbet

My Kindle does not have an account logged in. The amazon support told me the kindle is active.

One thing to note. You cannot undo the jailbreak because there has been no firmware released for the Colorsoft. So be very very sure you want to jailbreak because you cannot undo it.

[Guredol]

@BionicGecko is there a step-by-step on how to install this KOL ?

[BionicGecko]

Originally Posted by Guredol

@BionicGecko is there a step-by-step on how to install this KOL ?

It’s just a KUAL extension; you may want to read the first post in the KUAL thread to familiarize yourself with how to install them.

As far as KOL is concerned, either the regular one or the “frameworkless” one will work, but I suggest you install the regular one (direct link here.)

[socool]

Originally Posted by elimisatailor

But what finally worked for me: creating a network issue to encourage the kindle to use the cached version of the store (the winterbreak page). For me, this was setting my pi-hole (custom home DNS) to block all .*amazon.* DNS requests, but I realize most people won't have this setup available. Here's a potential list of things to try, from easiest to hardest. If anyone gets these to work, please reply so other users can know the quickest path:

1. Unplugging the internet connection from your wireless router (so the router is still running and producing a wifi network, but it can't actually talk to the internet)
   
2. Moving the kindle to the very edge of the wifi range, to make the network flaky
   
3. Saturating the network by running speed tests (or some other heavy download) on as many devices as possible when you open the kindle store and turn off airplane mode
   
4. Connecting to a phone hotspot in a location with bad phone service
   
5. Setting your router's DNS server to an invalid address, like 0.0.0.0, which would hopefully break all DNS (obviously set this back afterwards)
   
6. Setting up pi-hole on your computer, setting your router's DNS server to your pi-hole/computer, then blocking .*amazon.* like I did (this is an advanced setup, and if this doesn't make sense to you, please don't attempt it)

I created an account just to say thank you!

I got stuck at the Kindle store too. It always loaded the store instead of the JB HTML file. If I haven't found your post, I never would have thought this was because our internet is too fast!
Blocked ||amazon.com^ with AdguardHome and it worked.
I'm going to install the hotfix now.
FYI, my model is Oasis 10th gen, firmware 5.14

[aha]

Originally Posted by BionicGecko

It’s just a KUAL extension; you may want to read the first post in the KUAL thread to familiarize yourself with how to install them.

That KUAL post says "Extensions should always be packaged this way (i.e., simply unpack them at the root of your device), but if they're not, unpack them inside the extensions directory instead."

That's not the case for KOL: instead, unpack the .tar.xvf file on your computer and copy the relevant install.bin file to the kindle's mrpackages directory. (Note: I'm not sure what the KOL hotfix file is for...) Then eject and run KUAL -> Helper -> Install MR Packages.

For the coverset extension, unzip it in the kindle's extensions directory (or unzip it on your computer and copy the resulting directory).