Hardware Any Kindle Scribe hardware pictures/teardown available?

[aditya3098]

Hi,
I have a kindle scribe arriving in a few days, was wondering what the possibilities of jailbreak are, want to run VNC on it so I can share my sketches with a videocall. Anyone got one of these and have hardware images? I can't tell from the online images how easy/difficult it is going to be to open. Best I can tell is that it's hopelessly glued down but I am not entirely sure because it's not IP rated, so maybe there's some groove I can slide into that I'm missing?

[Jeffrey.]

Your title really should have included a question mark. I'm wondering too.

[aditya3098]

Originally Posted by Jeffrey.

Your title really should have included a question mark. I'm wondering too.

Yeah my bad

[luketheduke]

Originally Posted by aditya3098

Yeah my bad

I totally thought this was an actual teardown...

Excited to see what's possible with the Scribe.

[aditya3098]

Well I got the thing. Any magical hopes of actual screws is now gone, not even under the little rubber feet on the back. There's a good gap (almost 0.1-0.2mm) between the ends of the screen and the back case which wraps around the side. I *assume* it'll just plop out under heat? Unfortunately I can't really afford to break it, so I'm gonna have to wait until someone confirms that the screen won't shatter if you try (probably with one of those stands that people use to open ipads and stuff). Sucks cause the software is extremely limiting but the hardware is amazing, I'd love to be able to do a live screenshare with vnc or something.

[aditya3098]

https://imgur.com/a/iFsnZe1

[Quoth]

You can easily share sketches with reMarkable or Kobo (Sage or Elipsa), without any jailbreak, though otherwise the reMarkable is rubbish compared to every other eink with a digitiser stylus I've looked at.

The Scribe is a more tightly controlled walled garden than an iPad. Your best bet is a phone/tablet pointed at the Scribe, or laptop with hd webcam.

I've a reMarkable, Sage, Elipsa and Lenovo X201 all with digitisers/stylus. The only good thing about the Kindle Scribe HW is 300 dpi vs 227 dpi for the reMarkable and Elipsa.
I have and have had various Kindles, so I held off getting a Scribe till I could read about the SW. In most respects the SW sounds better than reMarkable (it's only got USB networking to copy files) and worse than Sage or Elipsa (they allow use without Internet and export of PDF simply by copy. Drawings by PDF, docx (optional text conversion, shapes, maths), HTML, png and even conversion to text, all via USB or Dropbox on WiFi.

[katadelos]

You'll be able to find internal photos sometime in March 2023 here: https://fccid.io/2A4DH-3426

No chance of a serial jailbreak on a Scribe that hasn't already been jailbroken and modified, very very unlikely that a bootrom level exploit will be found, moderate to good chance that a software level jailbreak will be found within a year due to the new (and more lucrative) bug bounty program for devices that Amazon opened last September.

[Pjama]

Originally Posted by katadelos

You'll be able to find internal photos sometime in March 2023 here: https://fccid.io/2A4DH-3426

No chance of a serial jailbreak on a Scribe that hasn't already been jailbroken and modified, very very unlikely that a bootrom level exploit will be found, moderate to good chance that a software level jailbreak will be found within a year due to the new (and more lucrative) bug bounty program for devices that Amazon opened last September.

Oh, I just opened a thread asking about the likelihood of a Scribe jailbreak. I hope you are right, and that a software JB will be found. Although, as I am constantly turning the wifi on and off to send PDFs, I don't suppose I will be able to avoid automatic OTA updates. I'm not keeping the wifi off permanently, as I want to be able to use the functionality and write on PDFs.

ETA: can someone add a ?? to the thread title? It is too disappointing to open this thread and find no teardown.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by Pjama

I am constantly turning the wifi on and off to send PDFs, I don't suppose I will be able to avoid automatic OTA updates. I'm not keeping the wifi off permanently, as I want to be able to use the functionality and write on PDFs.

Maybe someone can create a utility to convert arbirary PDFs to something the Scribe can write on, but I have no idea whether there is any developer interest in that at all.

[aditya3098]

Originally Posted by katadelos

You'll be able to find internal photos sometime in March 2023 here: https://fccid.io/2A4DH-3426

No chance of a serial jailbreak on a Scribe that hasn't already been jailbroken and modified, very very unlikely that a bootrom level exploit will be found, moderate to good chance that a software level jailbreak will be found within a year due to the new (and more lucrative) bug bounty program for devices that Amazon opened last September.

I was thinking maybe could find a testpad to put it into SDP mode? I doubt that will be patched? I had some wild dreams about probably finding the exact relative coordinates of this and just indicating the kindle on a mill and drilling a fine hole at the exact location on the back case, dropping a little ground lead into there and going from there.

[katadelos]

Originally Posted by aditya3098

I was thinking maybe could find a testpad to put it into SDP mode? I doubt that will be patched? I had some wild dreams about probably finding the exact relative coordinates of this and just indicating the kindle on a mill and drilling a fine hole at the exact location on the back case, dropping a little ground lead into there and going from there.

No chance, Kindle Scribe is one of the newer devices based on a MediaTek SOC so it doesn't have SDP mode in the first place and Amazon have been locking down the bootrom/boot process on their devices for years now, regardless of the SOC vendor.

[aditya3098]

Originally Posted by katadelos

No chance, Kindle Scribe is one of the newer devices based on a MediaTek SOC so it doesn't have SDP mode in the first place and Amazon have been locking down the bootrom/boot process on their devices for years now, regardless of the SOC vendor.

Haven't really been following the news I guess, situation seems more grim than I expected. Slight buyers remorse.

[aditya3098]

Regardless, I await the day I feel brave enough to teardown the thing.

[mergen3107]

!!! Have a look at the 8:30 here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TXeZ5f...ature=youtu.be
No glue used, yay!