Tutorial KindleBreak - Software Jailbreak for (almost) any Kindle <= 5.13.3 - Page 21

maps · 02-10-2025, 04:06 PM

What do we do if our device has firmware 5.16.2.1.1 ?

My entire kindle library disappeared off my device and when I called Amazon support they told me too bad I have to buy a new kindle.

I'm fuming!! I said FORGET THAT! I'm going to jailbrake the doggone device instead.

Which has brought me here. Does this mean that I am unable to jailbreak? No hope for me?

What a waste... they broke my device with their updates and gaslit me talking to me as though I was a child.

Please someone give me hope that this device isn't a brick!

j.p.s · 02-10-2025, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maps

What do we do if our device has firmware 5.16.2.1.1 ?

KindleBreak is 3 generations behind the current WinterBreak jailbreak. amazon fixes jailbreak vulnerabilities soon after a jailbreak is released.

For WinterBreak see:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=365372

maps · 02-10-2025, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j.p.s

KindleBreak is 3 generations behind the current WinterBreak jailbreak. amazon fixes jailbreak vulnerabilities soon after a jailbreak is released.

For WinterBreak see:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=365372

THANK YOU!!!

I am so upset with Amazon. Thank you for helping me get the device I legitimately purchased back into my control.

Frogm4n · 02-10-2025, 05:35 PM

A jailbreak isn't going to be a magic fix to take Amazon out of your Kindle. It is not a ROM, it is not a whole OS, it doesn't replace the regular Kindle functionality. All it does is let you run 3rd party code on the Kindle. Your firmware is years and years EOL so there isn't likely to be a future one to break its current jailbroken state, so even blocking OTA isn't going to gain you much of anything.

You can run KOReader and read EPUB directly on the Kindle, and Amazon won't see any of the that or do anything to those files.

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02-10-2025, 04:06 PM	#301
maps Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2025 Device: Kindle Paperwhite (7th Generation) G090KB	What do we do if our device has firmware 5.16.2.1.1 ? My entire kindle library disappeared off my device and when I called Amazon support they told me too bad I have to buy a new kindle. I'm fuming!! I said FORGET THAT! I'm going to jailbrake the doggone device instead. Which has brought me here. Does this mean that I am unable to jailbreak? No hope for me? What a waste... they broke my device with their updates and gaslit me talking to me as though I was a child. Please someone give me hope that this device isn't a brick!

02-10-2025, 05:35 PM	#304
Frogm4n Addict Posts: 369 Karma: 3003003 Join Date: Jul 2023 Device: Scribe, OA2, Glo HD, PRS-350	A jailbreak isn't going to be a magic fix to take Amazon out of your Kindle. It is not a ROM, it is not a whole OS, it doesn't replace the regular Kindle functionality. All it does is let you run 3rd party code on the Kindle. Your firmware is years and years EOL so there isn't likely to be a future one to break its current jailbroken state, so even blocking OTA isn't going to gain you much of anything. You can run KOReader and read EPUB directly on the Kindle, and Amazon won't see any of the that or do anything to those files.