Kindle DX ( DXG ) in 2025

[priccis]

Originally Posted by Dmitry-V

Hello! I have a kindle Paperwhite 2, firmware 5.4.3.2. Nothing is working right now, a message appears ""The permission to open this item have expired" and, it seems, it can be cured by changing the date to an earlier one. ...

I believe you can set time using `;st` in the search bar

;st - alias of ;setTime (format: yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM – e.g.: ;st 2012-07-22 17:59)

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[Dmitry-V]

Originally Posted by priccis

I believe you can set time using `;st` in the search bar

;st - alias of ;setTime (format: yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM – e.g.: ;st 2012-07-22 17:59)

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Thank you, my friend! It seems to have helped!

[priccis]

Just a bit of an update, mainly for self reference.

My DX's battery ran completely out and the date reverted back to the 70's (cheched it with ;date). And I got the certificate expiration message.
For some reason ;st didn't work and I had to use setdate_kindle_k2_dx.zip to bring it back to this decade.

[Quoth]

No, ;st doesn't work. You do have use a cell signal, or jail break and then a number of ways exist.

The 3G is gone here, but the 2G/GSM/EDGE still works for the Kindle DXG.

EDIT.
maybe ;st worked on earlier FW. Amazon don't want you to manually set the date.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by priccis

Just a bit of an update, mainly for self reference.

My DX's battery ran completely out and the date reverted back to the 70's (cheched it with ;date). And I got the certificate expiration message.
For some reason ;st didn't work and I had to use setdate_kindle_k2_dx.zip to bring it back to this decade.

Here is how to change the battery.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Amazon+...lacement/73101

The next step is to find a battery.

[vendo232]

here is a sript for Kindle DX ( and other non WIFI Kindles I think ) that executes setdate on boot and sets date to Jan 1 2025 ( date which works woth KUAL 2.7.35 and MKK from 2014 )

use usbNetwork and Telnet to 192.168.2.2

mntroot rw; 

cat > /mnt/us/extensions/set_date/set_date.sh << 'EOF'
#!/bin/sh
# Set date to January 1, 2025 12:00:00
date -s "010112002025"
EOF

chmod +x /mnt/us/extensions/set_date/set_date.sh; 
mkdir -p /mnt/us/launchpad; 
cat > /mnt/us/launchpad/set_date.ini << 'EOF'
[Actions]
B = !sh /mnt/us/extensions/set_date/set_date.sh
EOF

mntroot ro; 
reboot

[Quoth]

My DXG is still working on EDGE yesterday, though 3G is gone. Fetched ebook from Amazon.

I got other JB stuff to work, but not USBNetwork.

[vendo232]

Originally Posted by Quoth

My DXG is still working on EDGE yesterday, though 3G is gone. Fetched ebook from Amazon.

I got other JB stuff to work, but not USBNetwork.

cool in which country you are, can you specify what operator it is?

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by vendo232

cool in which country you are, can you specify what operator it is?

I don't know who Amazon contracted to. Amazing they haven't cancelled.

The electricity Smart meters don't have 4 G, nor the alarms. So which ever Irish operators have the 2G/GSM/EDGE, they can't be turning it off. Though 3G was faster, it was less reliable. It used 5 MHz channels. The GSM (and EDGE) 2G uses 0.2 MHz channels and has no cell breathing. The 3G was poor because it was based on USA CDMA 2G, which was the most common in USA and seriously inferior to GSM, though it used 1 MHz channels.

Three was maybe once the only operator without GSM, but they were unfortunately allowed to buy O2. Three outsource everything. They are a marketing company owned in Hong Kong.

Anyway, it's pointless. The DXG should never have been made or sold. I feel Amazon scammed me. It was only a screen upgrade of the DX. So though released the same time as the Gen 3 Keyboard, it's grossly inferior. The K1, K2 & DX family all obsolete SW at launch. Fortunately the Gen3 etc had later back port of AZW3.

The DXG is junk compared to slightly younger K3.