Tutorial Open Sesame! (AKA., The New & Improved JailBreak Index)

[TheMNoob]

Would KindleDrip help us get jailbreak in the later firmware versions?

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/k...-user-accounts

[dhdurgee]

Originally Posted by TheMNoob

Would KindleDrip help us get jailbreak in the later firmware versions?

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/k...-user-accounts

Potentially, but keep in mind that the latest firmware is NOT vulnerable to this approach. So anyone buying a new Kindle should keep it in airplane mode to avoid any possible update to the latest firmware if they hope to take advantage of this, should it be later developed.

Dave

[Trigun]

i was with a JB kindle pw3
i did a factory reset since the kindle wasn't working anymore and now i have 5.12.4 without JB.... i'm fucked? :-(

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by Trigun

i was with a JB kindle pw3
i did a factory reset since the kindle wasn't working anymore and now i have 5.12.4 without JB.... i'm fucked? :-(

Yes, unless you are willing to open the case and connect to the internal serial port.

[Trigun]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Yes, unless you are willing to open the case and connect to the internal serial port.

my only problem is the soldering part... i'm not skilled with soldering (when i tried to JB the first xbox i burned the mobo :-P )
u know if there is an alternative for do a quick connect on the circuit without soldering? i was thinking at something like an adesive paste that can conduct electricity? i use a breadboard bc i hate solder :-)

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by Trigun

my only problem is the soldering part... i'm not skilled with soldering (when i tried to JB the first xbox i burned the mobo :-P )
u know if there is an alternative for do a quick connect on the circuit without soldering? i was thinking at something like an adesive paste that can conduct electricity? i use a breadboard bc i hate solder :-)

Read posts #6 and #11 in the thread at
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=337041

[Trigun]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Read posts #6 and #11 in the thread at
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=337041

i like that way :-D i'll probably do it too :-)

[Trigun]

mission complete :-D wasted more time than needed bc tried other alternatives than tape for the tx and rx :-D then i tried tape and solved in 1 min :-)
the only problem is that now i have a "feedback kindle" in the list of the books never saw in the old JB

[LastSilmaril]

Was careless with the WiFi, ended up on 5.13.4 on KV. Seems like this means jb is toast without serial port hacking, yes? Attempting to install the hotfixes just spits back an invalid update error as soon as the Kindle is ejected from PC.

[hius07]

Originally Posted by LastSilmaril

Was careless with the WiFi, ended up on 5.13.4 on KV. Seems like this means jb is toast without serial port hacking, yes? Attempting to install the hotfixes just spits back an invalid update error as soon as the Kindle is ejected from PC.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...3&postcount=26

[LastSilmaril]

Originally Posted by hius07

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...3&postcount=26

That post has been telling us to just use the regular hotfix for months now. That said, the link was still helpful as it ultimately pointed me in the right direction.
The solution was this: I had the coward's rescue pack installed, so I was able to ssh in just by rebooting the Kindle while it was plugged into my PC, and then by manually setting computer's IP to 192.168.15.202, subnet to /24, gateway to 192.168.15.244. I then drop in the contents of emergency-bridge-recovery.zip to root and ran it. That restored jb.
But, after that, the KUAL hotfix is still not installable from UYK for whatever reason--it still complains that the package is invalid as soon as you dismount your Kindle from your PC. So, you have to use mrpi. But to get mrpi to work without KUAL (if you don't have USBnet working--my guess is I did, but it didn't occur to me to check) you need to restore the shortcuts (mrpi looks like it's usable within the rescue pack environment for installing some hacks, but apparently? not for reinstalling KUAL--it fails when it can't find sqlite3). ED: It looks like whatever I did here was irrelevant and whatever reason the shortcuts weren't working for me at first, doing the following should not help. Running the emergency-bridge-recovery files should be enough. Kept here in spoiler tags for posterity/my own benefit, honestly

Spoiler:

From what I can tell, the old script that did this won't work since the directory and files it thinks the shortcuts are in don't even exist. But you can

mntroot rw
mkdir -p /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow

while in rescue mode and then copy the json file inside the attached zip into it. After reboot, that'll get ;log mrpi to work again, at which point installing KUAL happens right away.

[NiLuJe]

That... is not what that post says *at all* :?

It points to the emergency package, how to run it, *to do the seven billion required reboots* and *then* to finally just use the hotfix.

[LastSilmaril]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

That... is not what that post says *at all* :?

It points to the emergency package, how to run it, *to do the seven billion required reboots* and *then* to finally just use the hotfix.

Yeah, in my haste/nervousness/general annoyance last night I thought the link was to the original hotfix post (which also had an attachment pulled) and did not process it right. Mea culpa, should not have been attempting this at 3am. Though fwiw, the hotfix and kual packages never stopped erroring out on eject for me, even after multiple reboots with everything else working fine :/

[LastSilmaril]

Originally Posted by hius07

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...3&postcount=26

Sorry for reacting in haste before, and thanks for posting the solution, it is appreciated.

[hius07]

Originally Posted by LastSilmaril

Sorry for reacting in haste before, and thanks for posting the solution, it is appreciated.

You're welcome