11-08-2012, 08:50 AM | #46 |
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11-08-2012, 08:54 AM | #47 | |
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"There is no known way to install them if you have a vanilla FW 5.3.0" is a different statement, and that one seems to be true at the moment. |
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11-08-2012, 08:57 AM | #48 |
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11-08-2012, 09:00 AM | #49 | |
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You can't downgrade until 5.3.0 is dealt with. And once it is, downgrading isn't necessary anymore. |
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11-08-2012, 09:06 AM | #50 | |
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At the time I made that post, it had not yet been reported that the known procedure of 5.2 did not work. - - - - None of which is significant to my intent. My intent was for that person to push the search button for themselves. That was a "post #1" find it for me request. |
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11-08-2012, 09:07 AM | #51 |
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Sorry, guys. Maybe I am a dimwit but I'm still not really sure if I can safely upgrade to 5.3 -- any conclusion on that? I am not running/don't need to run any hacks besides the screensaver one. Thanks.
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11-08-2012, 09:10 AM | #52 | |
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You will lose your screensavers. You will also lose access to making after-market modifications to the machine which you own. Which may or may not be a safety issue in your mind. |
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11-08-2012, 09:22 AM | #53 |
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Ok -- thanks for the straightforward answer. I realized I'm in the developer's corner but I am most certainly NOT a developer myself.
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11-08-2012, 09:23 AM | #54 | |
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What knc1 said, essentially. If you're upgrading to 5.3.0, you are locking yourself out regarding any further modifications. (At least for the time being. We may, or may not, find another exploit). It's Amazon who started the arms race, not us. |
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11-08-2012, 09:25 AM | #55 |
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Makes sense to me. I will hold off for the time being -- thanks!
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11-08-2012, 10:16 AM | #56 | |
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Amazon is not alone there.
EDIT: Kindle jailbreaking will become illegal in the USA in January 2013. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-575...soles-tablets/ Quote:
That seems backwards to me -- cellphones are even more vulnerable than wifi-only devices... EDIT: What is strange about this new ruling is that if you read the HISTORY of the DMCA exemptions, you will see that a reason given for them is so that blind users can listen to their ebooks even if the publisher disabled Text-To-Speech for that ebook. Apparently blind users will now have to rely on listening to their ebooks on a cellphone but NOT an ereader. EDIT2: It was reported that the new rule has a "grandfather clause" that lets you keep using jailbroken devices, as long as the jailbreak was installed BEFORE January 2013. Last edited by geekmaster; 11-08-2012 at 10:32 AM. |
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11-08-2012, 10:27 AM | #57 | |
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11-08-2012, 10:30 AM | #58 |
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If you leave the wifi on, the update will download and run on your device automatically. Usually Amazon sends these out in waves, so it might not be today, but it will happen eventually.
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Both Kindle Paperwhite firmware version 5.2.0 and version 5.3.0 contain object code covered by GPLv3. (The gnutls 2.8.4 distribution. See the "COPYING" file in the root of the source code tree for gnutls.) Of pertinence here: Section 6 Conveying Non-Source Forms. - "Installation Information" Translation: Owners of the Kindle Paperwhite should ask Amazon for the information specified (their encryption keys, among other things). Quote:
Go get'm tigers! |
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11-08-2012, 10:41 AM | #60 |
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I just don't get it.
Jailbreaking an Apple device allows things like Cydia to be installed and opens the device for piracy. (Which is apparently acceptable). Jailbreaking a Kindle allows extra features that Amazon didn't include and doesn't open any doors at all to piracy which weren't already there. (Which is apparently unacceptable). I can't wait to see Apple comply with "Users are allowed to install unapproved applications or switch carriers on their smartphones. "Users are allowed to install unapproved applications or switch carriers on their smartphones." Games consoles have either hardware modifications or software modifications and I can't think of a single one which needs to be Jailbroken (as in the way both the iPhone was by GeoHot and the PS3 was by fa1l0verfl0w) any more (In fact the only one I know of which was jailbroken was the PS3). |
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