Tools Introducing WinterBreak - Better Late Than Never

[VinnyG]

any ETA on 5.18.3 jb being released? I'm in Brazil and can't even change card settings to make adbreak work?

this is some next level customer fuckery,

[seisato]

I jailbroken Colorsoft Signature Edition during Winter Break.
The jailbreak was successful even after updating to 5.18.6.
MRPI and KUAL continue to work after re-installing the hotfix.
Thank you.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by VinnyG

any ETA on 5.18.3 jb being released? I'm in Brazil and can't even change card settings to make adbreak work?

this is some next level customer fuckery,

As far as I was aware, you can't purchase an ad supported Kindle in Brazil. I'm in Canada and one friend of mine tried to get ads enabled on his Kindle to use Ad Break and the support person (Amazon Canada) said that was not possible for customers not living in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy or Spain.

[mergen3107]

People have successfully changed region to France and got their ads
https://discord.com/channels/1083603...97898995761255

Maybe it can work here too

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by mergen3107

People have successfully changed region to France and got their ads
https://discord.com/channels/1083603...97898995761255

Maybe it can work here too

When I click the link, I see no directions on how to enable ads.

[mergen3107]

They are in the top post. I copy it here:

(THIS WORKS AS OF OCTOBER 4TH, OFW 5.18.5.0.1)

For some reason, **if your kindle account is registered to amazon.com, you won't get ads even if you activate them**. However, **it's different if your account is registered to amazon.fr** (for some unknown reason), and after getting your ads you can do Adbreak as usual.

What I did was go to amazon.com and change my region and payment info to an address in France; after that, I went to the "Devices" tab, and then I had a new option to migrate my account to Kindle France. After selecting that option, all my devices showed up in amazon.fr instead of amazon.com. Just to be sure, I also changed my Scribe default language to French. I reboot, and...

*Voilà!*

The option to have ads now appear on the settings. After that, I followed up the guide on kindlemodding.org

I think this is an interesting option for Colorsoft users to try, as I understand that model has a similar problem showing ads. I don't know why this happens, but I have Koreader on my Scribe now.

*Merci beaucoup* to <@362641685844590605> for being the first to prove that the scribe could be adbroken, to <@1342238956661641239> for developing this break, to the rest of the dev team for all the work done, and to <#1382486943169777675> and <#1332770457954549903> regulars for the neverending hope lol

[BugMeNot420]

Originally Posted by HackerDude

WinterBreak
Late Edition

I am proud to present the culmination of over a year of procrastination: WinterBreak
WinterBreak is a new jailbreak which works on ANY KINDLE* (from the K5) on ANY FIRMWARE*
*Note that models on 5.18.x no longer work, please check the wiki's model list for more info

Installation instructions can be found on the KMC wiki:
https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

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(silly art - the WinterBreak logo)

Happy New Year Everyone!
~ HackerDude (Formerly Bluebotlabs)

AMAZING. Finally, a reason to dust off the Kindle Paperwhite 3 or so, THANK YOU! I'm remembering how to read again.

[Amph]

Following Amazon’s recent decision to complicate the life of my old 6th‑generation Paperwhite running firmware 5.12.2.2, I decided to take a look at KOReader. This thread allowed me to install it easily, whereas the solutions in the main thread didn’t make it possible. Thanks a lot!

Originally Posted by HackerDude

WinterBreak
Late Edition

Installation instructions can be found on the KMC wiki:
https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

[nick84]

Have tried on my Colorsoft 5.18.0.2 and it works. Thx all.

[JSWolf]

There is now a WinterBreak2.

Look here to see if your Kindle supports it. https://kindlemodding.org/kindle-models.html

[Josieb1]

Edited to say All Sorted Now. I was being too precise


I tried to do this today on a PW 5th generation. It all went wrong. First of all

1) I couldn’t fill the storage as the Filler script would not download properly for me. Using windows 11. It downloads as just Filler. I tried adding the ps1 on the end by renaming the file (it does say Windows powershell script under type) but the command prompt (I assume this is powershell) says it’s invalid and doesn’t exist.

I tried to install WinterBreak anyway, without filling storage. It seemed to install okay but I couldn’t get the kindle back into Airplane mode. The three lines which is my way into settings doesn’t do anything.

2) I tried to install the Hotfix anyway but I could not get to the update your kindle option. Pressing the three lines did nothing. I restarted my kindle and had a message saying the update failed.

I haven’t tried again.

Can anyone help explain what’s gone wrong? Thanks