Tools Software Jailbreak for PW2, PW3, PW3W, KT2, KV, KOA and KT3

[knc1]

The Moscow distribution point has been taken out of service.

Our friends at 4pda.com evidently now have their own local copies.
The re-director that heads up this collection of distribution points hasn't seen a request from their web-site for several days now.

[doctoralvarez]

Originally Posted by remytom

hello everyone.
I've just bought a kindle voyage (kv. s/n 9013xxxxx ) from france ,witch one came stock with the firmeware 5.8.1
I try to install the downgrade "update_KV5.5.0_initiale.bin" but it doesn't work. I have an error message that state that it fails.So I'm still in 5.8.1
Could I jailbreak my kindle voyage after all by skipping the first steps of the tutorial or is it not safe?
anyone have experiense with this case? (could I jailbreak my kindle)

thank you very much

(by the way,great tutorial,cause I also have a kindle touch 2 and I succed to jailbreak it, so thank you ;-))

Hello remytom, you can't downgrade any firmware prior to the firmware version that came from factory (initially) on your Kindle, maybe I`m wrong but that´s what I know, you can jailbreak you voyage using serial TTS method, search here on mobileread

[knc1]

Originally Posted by doctoralvarez

Hello remytom, you can't downgrade any firmware prior to the firmware version that came from factory (initially) on your Kindle, maybe I`m wrong but that´s what I know, you can jailbreak you voyage using serial TTS method, search here on mobileread

Very close, but not correct.

You can't, or at least you shouldn't, install a firmware version earlier than the version the model was initially introduced with.

Which in all cases except one (the PW3) is what we have posted.

@doctoralvarez: If you read further into this thread, you will find that remytom only had a bad copy of the file.
Once that was replaced, the procedure worked fine.

[NiLuJe]

@knc1: I think you're right in your memories of md5sum not being part of the default OSX toolkit.

I seem to recall having to use openssl to do that, 'cuz I'm way too lazy to actually install md5sum.

Take this with a grain of salt, I may be mixing up hashing algorithms (md5/sha1/sha256/sha512). I *know* one of these is missing, but I can't quite remember if it's really md5sum.

[knc1]

The hotlinks to Amazon's download server in Step #7 where really out of date.
I think I have them all fixed now.

[iterable]

so, just popped open a new kindle voyage and followed the instructions but they didn't work. "update failed error 007" flashed. and the MRpi command didn't work prior to that.

Factory reset [I know I shouldn't have] and the same thing happened.

So, what does this mean for my kindle going forward and what can I do about it, if anything?

thank you for reading.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by iterable

so, just popped open a new kindle voyage and followed the instructions but they didn't work. "update failed error 007" flashed. and the MRpi command didn't work prior to that.

Factory reset [I know I shouldn't have] and the same thing happened.

So, what does this mean for my kindle going forward and what can I do about it, if anything?

thank you for reading.

How about telling us more than "does not work".

The steps are numbered, at least tell us which ones you did and what was the outcome of each.

Include the steps you invented and added to the sequence.

Include the firmware version your device had on it when it arrived.

Include the first 6 characters of the serial number.

[iterable]

Originally Posted by knc1

How about telling us more than "does not work".

The steps are numbered, at least tell us which ones you did and what was the outcome of each.

Include the steps you invented and added to the sequence.

Include the firmware version your device had on it when it arrived.

Include the first 6 characters of the serial number.

Serial Number First 6: B013 09

Didn't try the factory reset the first time because it was out of box. And followed all the steps as listed.

Got to step 7, with the firmware update and it gave me the 007 error. Decided to try step 8 but the MrPi command didn't do anything and I couldn't launch KUAL.

Reset the device to factory settings and went through all the steps again with the same result listed above.

That's it.

[knc1]

Return to Step #7 - - download another copy of the customer firmware version of your choice (make a note of the server and version link you used for your next post).

The re-download is on the off chance that you have a corrupted file from your first two tries (and if your using Safari you probably do).

Amazon does not provide validation files, so all you can do is try to install it again.

Just put it in the topmost level of visible USB storage, safely remove (or whatever MacOSx calls it), un-plug cable, use the UYK menu selection.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by iterable

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Reset the device to factory settings and went through all the steps again with the same result listed above.

That's it.

Is this you?

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5
2.0.2743.82 Safari/537.36 OPR/39.0.2256.48"

[iterable]

I'm really sorry I mis-spoke.

I get stuck at step 6.

After moving the jail break file, and when I update...that's when the error happens.

And no, that's not me. I'm on a mac.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by iterable

I'm really sorry I mis-spoke.

I get stuck at step 6.

After moving the jail break file, and when I update...that's when the error happens.

And no, that's not me. I'm on a mac.

That is a Mac, with a fairly recent release of Safari.

Use you zip archive tool to test the checksums of the archive contents.

And/Or re-download the file.

Avoid Safari if you can -
Just open a terminal and use wget or curl to download that archive.

[iterable]

Originally Posted by knc1

That is a Mac, with a fairly recent release of Safari.

Use you zip archive tool to test the checksums of the archive contents.

And/Or re-download the file.

Avoid Safari if you can -
Just open a terminal and use wget or curl to download that archive.

So, I re-downloaded files, used Chrome and went through the procedure six times.

And it just doesn't let the jailbreak work.

So I just reset it out of desperation and tried again and didn't work then either.

I guess, there's no other way or do you know another way?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by iterable

So, I re-downloaded files, used Chrome and went through the procedure six times.

And it just doesn't let the jailbreak work.

So I just reset it out of desperation and tried again and didn't work then either.

I guess, there's no other way or do you know another way?

Either Amazon built you a special version Kindle, or
There is something being missed here.

Download the factory initial firmware again, check its md5sum, if it is correct, re-install it.

If it is not correct, open a terminal and use wget or curl to download it.

- - - - - The why - - - - -

Once upon a time, there was an add-in for firefox named "flash downloader" -
flash as in very fast, not flash as a media type -
When you picked a file for download, it would open 3 to 5 parallel threads with as many different starting offsets, downloading the file in as many parts and re-assembling it once all the parts arrived.

It got things wrong more often than not.
Mostly because it depended on the server to support "resume at ...." and also get it correct, to the byte.

I can see in the server logs that Safari is trying to do exactly the same thing.
And some countries report the same result as the firefox flash downloader - it is getting it wrong on these large files, more often than not.

[iterable]

hey.

i really appreciate your help and prompt responses.

after some repetition, it ended up working somehow.

thanks so much again.