Kindle Touch/PW1/PW2 5.0.x - 5.4.4.2 JailBreak. Plus FW 5.x USBNetwork.

[Ruskie_it]

To make it clearer (and also to verify I understood the current situation): jailbreak, like all jailbreaks and cracks in the world, used a "hole" in the standard coding, a flaw, however you want to call it, something that allow the developer to break in and gain "root access".

With this latest firmware, Amazon has closed that hole; therefore until someone finds a new hole, we're all screwed. Actually it isn't with this latest firmware, but with fw 5.4.something, right?

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Ruskie_it

To make it clearer (and also to verify I understood the current situation): jailbreak, like all jailbreaks and cracks in the world, used a "hole" in the standard coding, a flaw, however you want to call it, something that allow the developer to break in and gain "root access".

With this latest firmware, Amazon has closed that hole; therefore until someone finds a new hole, we're all screwed. Actually it isn't with this latest firmware, but with fw 5.4.something, right?

Mostly correct. Even 5.4.5 allowed downgrading (like, to vulnerable firmware revisions) via officially signed update.bins, which is a fairly large security hole itself.
That was fixed in 5.6.1

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Spartan117H3

Mmm, so no way to sort books by file name or anything like that if I want to designate a book's order in a series?

As stated, calibre plugboards are your friend. Preferences ==> Metadata plugboards.

What's the latest on an alternative browser - I've only heard about skipstone, but nothing seems recent.

There's only two, skipstone and midori. Both are old.

OTOH, I am typing these very words in skipstone.

Any other cool stuff I should look at but may have overlooked? I saw something about a gtk+ calculator, and maybe some games that I'll have to do more research on :P.

LibrarianSync for managing collections.
screensavers hack if your Kindle is non-SO.
Fonts hack -- if you care about fonts, which I don't.

[rogerinnyc]

The news here was so depressing about the prospect for a jailbreak that I returned my Kindle Voyage last week for a refund. Instead, I bought a Kobo Aura H2O. Let's you have pretty much unlimited freedom with fonts, line spacing and margins, and automatically gives you the book cover as your screensaver. Yes, I would prefer NiLuJe's screensaver and font hacks on a KV, but since that doesn't seem to be in the cards, this felt like my best option....it's too bad Amazon doesn't care. In any event, I'll keep my fingers crossed that someone gets lucky or has a burst of inspiration on the jailbreak front!

[knc1]

Probably a good choice -
to return it while you can rather than wait for inspiration to strike the folks working on a "closed" Kindle Jailbreak.
(Closed: As in you don't have to open up the case.)

[Spartan117H3]

Originally Posted by Ruskie_it

... wrote an "export rule" on calibre to have them renamed in a suitable way. Like for instance:

01 - First title
02 - Second title

Etc.
You can then choose on Kindle interface to show books sorted by name.

Personally, I consider browsing on an e-ink device so useless I never bother to. In that rare occasions, I'd just use stock browser. Sorry I can't help on that.

I have mostly KUAL extensions on my Kindle. I think I found all them packaged somewhere. There are, among the coolest:

Gcalculator
Kindle Explorer
KindleNotes
KindleReminder
Koreader (if you ever want to read epub or pdf on Kindle)

I have others (Kterm to name one, Rgbpaint) but they're not so useful to me, just proof of concept.

I manually named them 01 (bookname), 02 (bookname)..., but apparently one of the books I manually put into the documents folder is similar enough to the Kindle version of it, so it "renamed" it to the official name, and is no longer labeled a "personal" book.

I see, I just figured, if for whatever reason I decide to browse on an E-Ink book, I'd want the best experience.

I will take a look at all the extensions, thanks.

Originally Posted by eschwartz

As stated, calibre plugboards are your friend. Preferences ==> Metadata plugboards.

There's only two, skipstone and midori. Both are old.

OTOH, I am typing these very words in skipstone.

LibrarianSync for managing collections.
screensavers hack if your Kindle is non-SO.
Fonts hack -- if you care about fonts, which I don't.

I've messed with calibre long before I got a kindle, but never took because I didn't do much ebook reading/didn't have a large collection. I will have to look into it.

Is this it? http://www.fabiszewski.net/kindle-browser/
Or is that only for the touch? The only other thread I found said I could install Debian and use netsurf, but I'm not that ambitious, and I'm not good enough with Linux.

LibraryanSync - seems a little complicated, although I did learn a tiny bit of how to read JSON yesterday. Basically it would allow me to manage collections easier(through calibre and the likes), and do that thing that I wanted with the book titles as well?
Screensavers - saw it, I have a magnetic cover, won't matter either way.
Fonts - same boat as you, no interest in it.

On another note,
PW2 Front Light Master - Saw this and I am now messing around with it.

[pghaworth]

Originally Posted by rogerinnyc

I returned my Kindle Voyage last week for a refund. Instead, I bought a Kobo Aura H2O. Let's you have pretty much unlimited freedom with fonts, line spacing and margins, and automatically gives you the book cover as your screensaver.

Due to the less proficient "lock-down" of Kobo and other benefits, I've been eyeing that model myself. I bought the previous gen of Kindle this last go round, but wouldn't have had to do that if I went with Kobo.

Too bad Amazon wants to be the Apple of the ereader market. That's fine with me, on to Kobo if Amazon doesn't wise up.

[eschwartz]

skipstone works for the PWs as well, as far as I know. At least, it should definitely work for the PW1 which shares the same processor IIRC.

LibrarianSync is meant to deal with the tools which know much more about JSON than we do like the plugin. It handles collections better than Amazon's limited interface, and collections combined with plugboard titles will give you a much more pleasant experience looking for books on the Kindle.

[goldencore]

I still have trouble to understand the rescue pack (+coward pack) and usb networking. I installed USB Networking and the rescue pack, because it was recommended as a safety belt.
Do I have to set/toggle anything to be prepared IF something goes wrong or is everything just there if needed?

[eschwartz]

Rescue Pack is toggled by placing a file called "ENABLE_DIAGS" (no extension, which is important because Windows often hides file extensions) in the Kindle userstore (usually Drive "E:\" on Windows).

Coward's Rescue Pack is toggled by plugging your Kindle into a USB charger and rebooting it.

So, the Rescue pack is Just There If Needed.

USB Networking can similarly be toggled manually via files, check the READMEs.


tl;dr -- you can continue as you are, with perfect serenity. If anything happens, it is there to save you.

[shamanNS]

It would be nice if you took time to setup and test SSH connection between Kindle & your PC. Also you should probably install backdoor lock, to block OTA updates. Maybe even after that keep WiFi off for couple of days until devs here can double check if those methods for blocking OTA still work.

[goldencore]

Ok, that's what I wanted to know. Usually I am not a noob, but I got a bit confused and didn't want to be caught with my pants down! So thanks for clearing that up.

I tried the instructions to connect to the kindle via putty (from Windows), but get "connection refused". I can ping the kindle's ip, but putty won't connect me.

(Backdoorlock ist installed!)

[Spartan117H3]

Originally Posted by goldencore

I tried the instructions to connect to the kindle via putty (from Windows), but get "connection refused". I can ping the kindle's ip, but putty won't connect me.

Basically, make sure you followed the guides for the IPv4 stuff, generate a public and private key using puttygen, toss the public key (save it as a file named authorized_keys) in usbnet/etc/, open putty, connect to "192.168.15.244," go to SSH->Auth, go to the bottom and find your private key using the file chooser, and then click open.

[Spartan117H3]

Not too big of a deal, but when I log into SSH, why do I always get "Server refused our key" and have to hit enter on the password prompt? Any fix for that?:

login as: root
Welcome to Kindle!

Server refused our key
root@192.168.15.244's password:

While I'm talking about SSH, how do I SSH over WiFi? I just get a connection timeout.

[NiLuJe]

@Spartan117H3: That seems to be an issue on your side (that, or PuTTy being weird) [i.e., you're not in fact using shared keys to auth].

As for over WiFi, there's a config switch in the KUAL extension, but you *will* have to clear up your authentication issues first, because it will require a valid auth (unlike now where you can enter pretty much whatever you like as a password, or just hit enter).