PW5 Can I safely update once jailbroken?

[muggleMode]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

Unless someone figure out why the GUI fails to restart, no, as I'm not going to update to an affected FW (>= 5.15.x).

The latest MRPI version tried something different, and I've heard mixed results at best.

MRPI doesn't kill USBNet, so it's fairly easy to follow along. The hard part is figuring out what's getting its panties in a bunch, and why (also, having an idea of what it should look like when working would help, too).

well, thank you very much for answering, I'm going to turn on airplane mode and wait for some good news in the next few months, I saw that some people are already waiting patiently with the new kindle basic firmware version (5.15.1)
at least it didn't kill my device, freaked me out when the screen went blank lol

[pmarcus]

Just to confirm update to 5.15.1 does work and can preserve the jailbreak.

I purchased a kindle paperwhite kids edition that came with 5.14.2. Installed the jailbreak and KUAL along with renameotabinaries.

I then put the 5.15.1 binary onto the root of the kindle drive.

Next I went into KUAL and DISABLED renameotabinaries which caused a reboot and an immediate update to 5.15.1.

Next I copied the update_jailbreak_hotfix_1.16 to the root of the kindle then did a manual update from settings. The kindle installed the update and rebooted.

Then I added update_kualbooklet install to the mrpackages folder and executed ;log mrpi in the search bar. This reinstalled KUAL.

I then redid the renameotabinaries.

Everything seems to work as expected.

I also did this exact same process on a PW4 as a test before doing my PW5.