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Old 05-20-2017, 07:10 PM   #1951
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Thanks for the replies. My serial board will arrive Monday and I'm really looking forward to doing this. I'm sure there are a wide variety of reasons to jailbreak but it seems a shame that one has to go through a jailbreak process to set a standby wallpaper. ;-)
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Old 05-20-2017, 07:18 PM   #1952
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The G090LK, G090LL (Black and White, PW-3, 32GB, Wifi only) models along with the corresponding two Wifi+3G versions are not supported.
I'm curious, do you know the specific reason this jailbreak doesn't work on the 32GB models? Is this a software limitation? Would the serial process work on these models?
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Nothing can prevent firmware modifications done from the operator's console.
Which is one of the reasons computer rooms have locks on the doors.
(The serial port IS the operator's console.)
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Old 05-20-2017, 08:10 PM   #1954
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I'm curious, do you know the specific reason this jailbreak doesn't work on the 32GB models? Is this a software limitation? Would the serial process work on these models?
Because we haven't isolated the factory image for those models.
And yes, the image for the 4GB models will brick it.
Several readers have been there, tried that, had to exchange them.

See above answer.
TL;DR: Yes
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Old 05-20-2017, 08:54 PM   #1955
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Because we haven't isolated the factory image for those models.
And yes, the image for the 4GB models will brick it.
Several readers have been there, tried that, had to exchange them.

See above answer.
TL;DR: Yes
Thank you!
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Old 05-20-2017, 09:30 PM   #1956
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Thank you!
There is another show-stopper . . . .

Our *.bin packages are "model locked" (just like Amazon's) and the person who maintains our packager is away at school.

So even if we JB those models, there is no one to update KindleTool with the new model numbers.

No update to KindleTool, no way for us to re-package anything for those models.
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Old 05-20-2017, 09:59 PM   #1957
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Our *.bin packages are "model locked" (just like Amazon's) and the person who maintains our packager is away at school.
He's been gone for about nine months now.

Where did he find a school that doesn't have the Internet?
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Old 05-20-2017, 10:12 PM   #1958
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He's been gone for about nine months now.

Where did he find a school that doesn't have the Internet?
He has posted here once or twice during that time.

He is working towards an advanced degree in his field (which is not C.S.) and must find it more demanding of time than the undergrad work.
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If the new features in 5.8.9.x aren't really needed, I'd recommend to stay at 5.8.7.0.1 - the last known version that allows a downgrade to the initial factory fw.
Of Course they are needed only by a one who reads manga and reads kfx books
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Thanks for the replies. My serial board will arrive Monday and I'm really looking forward to doing this. I'm sure there are a wide variety of reasons to jailbreak but it seems a shame that one has to go through a jailbreak process to set a standby wallpaper. ;-)
Not only a wallpaper there are pretty huge reasons and benefits of a jailbroken kindle. You can pllay simple gtk games even. I would request you to wait for some dayss so that software jailbreak is itself is possible.

But anyone who is very confident of doing an electronic surgery may do so.

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Old 05-22-2017, 07:10 PM   #1961
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Well I ended up getting a replacement Voyage because of a sticky and loose power button on the original. The replacement arrived today on firmware 5.8.7.0.1. I successfully downgraded to 5.5.0 but when I run ;installHtml it does a quick reboot and the jailbreak document is nowhere to be seen. I'm not sure if this is normal behavior for v5.8.7.0.1 downgrading to 5.5.0 and I fully admit to and apologize for not reading through 131 pages before posting.

I'm going to pause here and hope for some guidance. Please let me know if I've left out any useful information for troubleshooting. Thank you!!
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Old 05-22-2017, 07:12 PM   #1962
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Well I ended up getting a replacement Voyage because of a sticky and loose power button on the original. The replacement arrived today on firmware 5.8.7.0.1. I successfully downgraded to 5.5.0 but when I run ;installHtml it does a quick reboot and the jailbreak document is nowhere to be seen. I'm not sure if this is normal behavior for v5.8.7.0.1 downgrading to 5.5.0 and I fully admit to and apologize for not reading through 131 pages before posting.

I'm going to pause here and hope for some guidance. Please let me know if I've left out any useful information for troubleshooting. Thank you!!
Brand of PC.
A PC running MacOSx perhaps?

Model of Kindle.
First six characters of the serial number please.
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Old 05-22-2017, 07:14 PM   #1963
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Brand of PC.
A PC running MacOSx perhaps?
Yes, an iMac on macOS Sierra 10.12.5. I do have access to a PC if necessary!
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Old 05-22-2017, 07:17 PM   #1964
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You MacOSx is destroying the content of the archive for you.
It is attempting to protect you from an "Unsafe archive".

Use the PC to do the download and transfer to the Kindle.
DO NOT open or let the PC open the archive!!!
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Old 05-22-2017, 07:23 PM   #1965
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@knc1 you're my hero. I didn't even notice that Safari was set to "Open 'Safe' files after downloading" which was unzipping the .tar.gz and leaving me a .tar. I usually always have that setting disabled and assumed it was and didn't even notice the file extension had changed. A quick uncheck of that setting in Safari and I've got the original .tar.gz and it loaded properly as well as the jailbreak hotfix update. Thank you so much for your impressively fast help with this!
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