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2) Any change to the serial number, must have been done by the "erase all" command. I.E: It may have been wrong before (specially if you bought this unit used) and then was corrected by "erase all" - but now reset to the wrong one again by your own actions. You should learn what the situation is, once you try to register the device with Amazon. |
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04-23-2015, 03:47 PM | #62 |
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I did buy it used on ebay w/5.6.0.1 on but it wasn't JB or or anything could it have the wrong ser from the factory? Should I erase it again & and reflash?
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04-23-2015, 04:14 PM | #63 |
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After I erased it, the ser # it had was the one I posted and the one I changed it back to after flashing. As far as I know the ser number did change after flashing. At least the hash of it did. I don't know what's going on.
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04-23-2015, 05:18 PM | #64 | |
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You most likely got a re-furbished device. And probably a black-listed one at that (the erase all command **should** have generated the correct serial number). |
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04-23-2015, 05:39 PM | #65 |
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My version says now 5.4.0 and I don't intend to let it go higher therefore no syncing till I'm sure. The jailbreak is acting weird. I hit update and it updates and restarts the way any update would. I understand the way it's supposed to work the update screen doesn't even show it only says jailbreak.If I run jb.sh manually it says jailbreak but kual still doesn't work. Any suggestions?
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04-23-2015, 06:26 PM | #66 |
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The jailbreak for the Kindles **ONLY** affects the ability to install our update_*.bin packages.
It has **NOTHING** to do with the execution of applications. - - - - NOTE: I wrote of the jailbreak above. The most recent versions of the jailbreak for series 5.x firmwares bundles **OTHER** things that do affect the execution of applications. - - - - Please tell us what error message (or unusual behavior) given when trying to run KUAL. "Doesn't work" isn't very much to go on. |
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04-23-2015, 07:03 PM | #68 |
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If it's a 4GB PW2, it needs FW whats-its-face for Kindlets to work. Can't remember the version right now, it's in the KUAL FAQ.
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04-23-2015, 07:51 PM | #69 |
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Right!
So in that case, the answer now to the next question that will be posted: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...postcount=1301 (I just got my crystal ball to re-boot.) Duh... I just read my own reference - that example is the firmware version you need to make active documents work on a PW2. AFAIR. Last edited by knc1; 04-23-2015 at 07:53 PM. |
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Presto! your crystal ball was right, worked perfectly! Finally after many hoops and jumps I have a jailbroken kindle. I locked the back door and synced with amazon and re-downloaded my books everything seems to work. Many thanks guys, I couldn't have done it without you!
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One of the few people who ever recovered from "erase all" - - -
Which means something has changed about its having been broken for years. - - - - Now if someone has a sacrificial PW2, we could probably investigate the details. Hmm... The "erase all" command should (well, was) part of the Amazon released u-boot sources, maybe a bit of code reading is called for before burning a PW2 to the gods of knowledge. Hmm(2)... If so, it probably got fixed when the USB downloader mode disappeared from the PW1 - - - because with it fixed, they wouldn't need a 'magic key' sequence to enter USB downloader mode, they could just use u-boot (which is the way the firmware was intended to be used). Last edited by knc1; 04-24-2015 at 04:35 AM. |
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04-25-2015, 04:18 PM | #73 |
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I didn't quite get it either whether this step is actually essential but I was able to skip it. Maybe I missed something but once you log in as root in diags mode you can do as you please, wounded feet notwithstanding
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It does not matter what username you are logged in as, what matters is being able to run the jailbreak scripts with root permissions.
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04-26-2015, 10:59 AM | #75 |
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I'd go so far as to add that renaming the root account is a terrible idea on principle .
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