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Old 02-05-2025, 02:07 PM   #466
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You can already remove the dictionaries without jailbreaking. In general there is not a huge interest in the community to streamline the firmware in this manner as 3GB is in fact enough to easily hold several hundreds or even thousands of regular books, which should be enough for most people. The limit can be reached quickly with graphic novels, but if this is what you're interested in then I'd suggest you get a Kindle with more than 4GB of storage in the first place.
Thanks for the info. Another question, would it be possible to turn off the autostandby without disabling standby altogether? Alternatively setting it to something longer than 1 hour (even 4 hours) would be enough for me.
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Old 02-05-2025, 10:41 PM   #467
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The 5.17.3 firmware is now available for both the 2022 and 2024 Scribes. Has anyone tested that it is still vulnerable to WinterBreak and if so can it be upgraded to and the jailbreak maintained by running the hotfix afterwards? I'd love to have the new Side Panel Margin feature, but obviously I like having the jailbreak as well.
I just used WinterBreak to jailbreak a fresh 5.17.3 Scribe 2024 model and it worked without any issues. Also, the expandable margins are awesome.
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Old 02-08-2025, 11:24 PM   #468
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I am on 5.17.1.0.3 at the moment and when I pressed the icon, it boot up the jailbreak and only say "jailbreaking, please wait" for more than 10 minutes. Shall I continue waiting or just redo the process?
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Scribe 2022 update from jailbroken 5.17.2 to 5.17.3 was a success, with hiccups.

I was finally willing to risk the update with @sparkyboy's report that it is still jailbreakable, if the update failed and had to start over. I first tried using MRPI to install the update by copying it to the mrpackages folder and running KUAL-> Helper -> Install MR Packages but it failed when/after validating the package and automatically deleted it. Since it is a system update I decided instead to use UYK. I ran KUAL -> Rename OTA Binaries -> Restore and waited while it rebooted. Then I copied the update .bin to the root folder. That enabled regular UYK in More -> Settings -> three dot menu -> Update Your Kindle. I let that run and it was successful. Of course KUAL would not launch, as expected. At this time I'd forgotten to check if MRPI worked via the search bar, but I'll get back to that. I tried running the HackerDude Run Hotfix booklet, but it failed with an error message at the bottom of the screen that said something akin to 5.12.2.x ):. I restarted the Kindle and ran it again. This time Run Hotfix ran and printed *** Squash JB *** and then rebooted as I expected. I tried KUAL again and it still failed, but I finally remembered to check MRPI with ;log mrpi, and that worked. I then re-installed KUAL by copying the .bin into the mrpackages folder and running ;log mrpi. With that I'm back to a working jailbreak and on 5.17.3. With KUAL working I was able to run Rename OTA Binaries -> Rename and let it reboot the Scribe. With the fresh update I now get to see the annoying always-on Expandable Margin icon when reading reflowable KFX documents. They really, really, should have made that a toggle like/with the writing toolbar.

It might have been a good idea to restore OTA before trying anything, so that the Kindle wouldn't be left unable to re-install the system with UYK if I'd broken something.

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Old Yesterday, 05:47 PM   #470
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Old Today, 12:57 PM   #471
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Sorry, Maybe this will help too???

Running 'install.sh' for 'linkss 0.25.N I W+Z+R+B' (Update_linkss_0.25.N_install_pw2_and_up.bin) @ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:36:38 +0001

system: I linkss:install::using the default paperwhite5 custom screensaver
system: I linkss:install::installing custom directory
./install.sh: line 106: ./xzdec: not found
tar: short read

Hu oh... Got return code 1 . . .
Hey dude, I have the exact same problem and was wondering if you ever managed to fix it? Python package fails for me too with the same error as linkss, which leads me to believe its a problem with kual or MRPI... Im on Kindle paperwhite 10 (PW4) firmware 5.15
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Hey dude, I have the exact same problem and was wondering if you ever managed to fix it? Python package fails for me too with the same error as linkss, which leads me to believe its a problem with kual or MRPI... Im on Kindle paperwhite 10 (PW4) firmware 5.15

Hey buddy, sorry nope, I tried a few more times and always get the same result. I was hoping the gentleman frog could help as he seems very knowledgeable, just hoping he has an idea and wades in (See what I did there.) Otherwise if you find the answer please let me know!!!!!! :-D
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