Firmware Update 5.14.3

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by NullNix

*kicks self* I've been putting off jailbreaking because you lose the entire contents of the Kindle when you do it -- but obviously if I do that first I don't lose a thing. And it's so obvious and I don't know why I never thought of doing it -- probably because backing up a Kindle that way is largely pointless because of the DRM, but even DRMed KFX can be copied off a Kindle and copied back to the *same Kindle* without incident, so, not that useless after all.

The kindlebreak jailbreak released in March 2021 does not involve a reset and does not require firmware install. I haven't paid attention to the details of the watchthis jailbreak, but
it also might not require recopying books.

But, yeah, copying and restoring books to the same kindle has always been an option. Depending on the circumstances, restoring .sdr contents may or may not cause trouble.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

I am not encountering that problem, possibly because I don't have a book with that problem or becuase I download and transfer over USB.

Could be.

I have a jail broken Kindle Touch but I don’t think it would tell us much. I think I remember seeing the SQLite DB on there but it didn’t open with the DB client I tried. But I’ll have another look after I get the battery charged up.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by tomsem

Could be.

I have a jail broken Kindle Touch but I don’t think it would tell us much. I think I remember seeing the SQLite DB on there but it didn’t open with the DB client I tried. But I’ll have another look after I get the battery charged up.

sqlitebrowser (cross platform, open source, compiled binaries available) has worked for me for browsing, I don't think that or the amazon supplied sqlite3 can update the db because amazon got cute with some superfluous custom function. NiLuJe supplies an sqlite3 that will but I don't remember which package.

/val/ocal/cc.db is the most likely suspect, but there are others. amazon tends to make tables with a huge number of columns, so a dump to tsv or csv, import to spread sheet and
hide irrelevant columns might make inspecting easier.

[NiLuJe]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

NiLuJe supplies an sqlite3 that will but I don't remember which package.

It might be in the Python packages (for... reasons).

[explorare]

So sorry to ask the dumb question but I forgot to enable the airplane mode while updating the KOReader and of course my PW3 updated to 5.14.3 without my notice. ";log mrpi" doesn't work anymore. And I forgot to patch the hotfix. I tired the hotfix just now and Kindle won't update anymore. I have no way to confirm if the jailbreak is still there, but KUAL is gone.

So I have to wait until a new jailbreak method been released?