What to do with my new Kindle KT4 with FW 5.16.5?

ChelonianEgghead · 12-28-2023, 04:50 PM

The other day I got a refurbished Kindle KT4 for the purpose of installing KOReader on it because it's a cheap model but I don't really want to use Amazon's ecosystem, but I was a moron and didn't do much research into the jailbreaking process beforehand so yeah I set it up and updated it to FW 5.16.5 and now I'm stuck. It seems my options are to resell it and get a new one making sure it has older firmware, wait for a new exploit to be found, or try doing a hardware jailbreak. The first option is obviously an inconvenience but would at least work, the second could take months or even a year, and yeah as for the latter I hear they've tightened up security on the hardware side of things and idk if I really want to pick up a soldering iron again after my last fiasco. Of course I could just use it offline with Calibre or something but yeah what's my best option here? Thanks for reading.

Quoth · 12-29-2023, 05:13 AM

The only reason to buy a Kindle is to either read Amazon KU on it, or buy Amazon ebooks (which can be then read elsewhere as you have a serial ID of a registered Kindle to copy/paste from your account). Most Kobos and almost all Android eInk can run KOReader without any jailbreak.

ChelonianEgghead · 12-29-2023, 11:11 AM

Yeah that's what it looks like upon further research, I'll probably get a Kobo Libra H2O then. Thanks for the help.

12-28-2023, 04:50 PM	#1
ChelonianEgghead Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2023 Device: Kindle KT4	What to do with my new Kindle KT4 with FW 5.16.5? The other day I got a refurbished Kindle KT4 for the purpose of installing KOReader on it because it's a cheap model but I don't really want to use Amazon's ecosystem, but I was a moron and didn't do much research into the jailbreaking process beforehand so yeah I set it up and updated it to FW 5.16.5 and now I'm stuck. It seems my options are to resell it and get a new one making sure it has older firmware, wait for a new exploit to be found, or try doing a hardware jailbreak. The first option is obviously an inconvenience but would at least work, the second could take months or even a year, and yeah as for the latter I hear they've tightened up security on the hardware side of things and idk if I really want to pick up a soldering iron again after my last fiasco. Of course I could just use it offline with Calibre or something but yeah what's my best option here? Thanks for reading.

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12-29-2023, 05:13 AM	#2
Quoth the rook, bossing Never. Posts: 11,164 Karma: 85874891 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper11	The only reason to buy a Kindle is to either read Amazon KU on it, or buy Amazon ebooks (which can be then read elsewhere as you have a serial ID of a registered Kindle to copy/paste from your account). Most Kobos and almost all Android eInk can run KOReader without any jailbreak.

12-29-2023, 11:11 AM	#3
ChelonianEgghead Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2023 Device: Kindle KT4	Yeah that's what it looks like upon further research, I'll probably get a Kobo Libra H2O then. Thanks for the help.

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