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08-13-2020, 01:52 PM | #1 |
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Kindle Oasis Gen 1 fw 5.13.1 (or older) - Serial Jailbreaking Step by Step
Good day Oasis 1 owner!
Finally there is a guy! I know I also happy to bring this tutorial to all of you. Disclamer: I am not responsible for bricked devices. Good luck! Before doing anything, I strongly recommend you should take a look at below instructions: 1. Kindle Oasis 1 back cover removal from iFix 2. Serial Jailbreaking your fw >= 5.6.x Kindle for Dummies You'll need: - A computer - Your kindle oasis - USB-TTL serial adapter - Solder - Tool to open your kindle - Python - PuTTY - Be patient! Ok. I believe you have understood basics of serial jailbreaking a kindle. Let's move to the fun part. Step 1: Discover kindle diag mode root password I'm doing this tutorial in Windows environment. Firstly, please install python from python.org Then open windows command prompt, input below code Code:
python import hashlib print("fiona%s"%hashlib.md5("your kindle serial number with no spaces and all capital letters\n".encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()[13:16]) Step 1.1: Connect kindle to the computer. Copy all files in the kindle-5.4-jailbreak.zip to kindle. You can find it in Snapshot topic by NiLuJe (kindle-jailbreak-1.16.N-r17396.tar.xz) Step 2: R̶i̶p̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶d̶e̶v̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶a̶p̶a̶r̶t̶ Open the back cover to access to the mainboard. If you look closely in the lower right of the display connection port, you'll see 3 tiny round copper connectors which are Tx, Rx and GND. But wait, you need to disconnect the battery first. Now wire these connectors with any USB TTL adapter that you have. Kindle Tx --- Rx Kindle Rx --- Tx Kindle GND --- GND (you can also connect with the screw as I do) Step 3: Prepare the software Connect to USB TTL adapter to computer. Open Device Manager and set up variable like below Open PuTYY and setup like this Then press Open, leave the blank window as it is Step 4: Jailbreaking! OK. This is important. As soon as you reconnect the battery, the blank PuTYY window above will begin to display some text. Please press any key quickly to interupt the normal boot and to access uboot. Now, input below code. It's quite different from original K5 instruction: Code:
run bootcmd_FB bootm 0xE41000 Back to your kindle screen. Choose Reboot or Disable Diags then Exit to login prompt On PuTYY screen, input username and password login: root password: fionaxxx (as you remember on the first step) Edit the password file, input below code: Code:
mkdir /tmp/main mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /tmp/main vi /tmp/main/etc/passwd Press X to delete the x character Input :w to save Input :q! to quit vi editor Input reboot to reboot kindle. Let's the kindle fully boot to your familiar home screen. On PuTTY windows, press Enter and login with root. Input below commands to jailbreak: Code:
cd /mnt/us sh jb.sh Congratulation! You also can create the folder name "update.bin.tmp.partial" on kindle to help prevent OTA update and protect the jailbreak. Bonus. I'll help you install KUAL on your now jailbroken kindle. You can find everything in snapshot. Copy KUAL-KDK-2.0.azw2 (KUAL) to document folder and Update_KUALBooklet_hotfix_44a61b6_install.bin (KUAL coplate) to the kindle root directory. Update your kindle. Now, you have KUAL and free to install other plug-in such as helper+, screensaver, KOreader, etc. Thank NiLuJe, grant2 and other contributors. Your work have helped me a lot. Cheer! Last edited by pdurrant; 08-14-2020 at 04:49 AM. |
08-14-2020, 05:49 AM | #2 |
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Was the "disconnect the battery first" the trick necessary to get you unstuck?
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08-14-2020, 06:14 AM | #3 |
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08-14-2020, 11:23 AM | #4 |
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I don't know what you mean. We just open the plastic back cover, don't think this will damage the glass front panel
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08-14-2020, 01:29 PM | #5 |
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Would this also work with serial jailbreaking the PW4, because what I have seen on another thread that the PW4 also uses U-Boot?
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08-14-2020, 02:10 PM | #6 |
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08-15-2020, 08:51 PM | #7 |
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08-17-2020, 02:38 PM | #8 |
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have you installed KoReader? if so how it performs?
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08-19-2020, 04:29 AM | #9 |
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08-19-2020, 03:38 PM | #10 |
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Show us some pictures please! Since you the first one maybe you just make fun of us because they say nobody found them and you just opened the back and boom
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Anyway, that's lucky for me that I have some pictures of the process to prove to this guy. |
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08-22-2020, 12:14 AM | #12 |
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Hi, would this work for Kindle Oasis 2? I have KO2, firmware version 5.12.5 and i'm not sure if I should follow this guide or find another
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08-22-2020, 10:51 AM | #13 |
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08-22-2020, 11:47 AM | #14 |
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Not quite flawlessly, while it is very very good and is superior to native, it has serious issues with knowing which way it is rotated. you will find out you have to hold it a certain way when starting KOReader or the display will be upside down. It's brilliant once you work out how to mitigate the issues it does have though. |
08-22-2020, 12:30 PM | #15 |
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@Mnementh: Are you talking about https://github.com/koreader/koreader...lua#L721-L727?
Because no-one's ever mentioned anything of the sort on a KOA, AFAIR, only on a KOA2. |
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