[conspire] Elise's laptop

[Leo P]

I had a Paperwhite 2 that I rooted and installed some mods on.  At one
point I even had it set up to dual-boot an alternative ROM that was created
in Japan and had some unique features.  A subsequent update that fixed bugs
and added a new font reset everything and jailbreaks no longer worked.  I
traded the Paperwhite 2 in for a Paperwhite 3 and I have not found any
jailbreaks that claim to work on recent versions of the Kindle Paperwhite
software.

*Will this jail break work on my current firmware?*
If the third field of your firmware version number: 5.8.*7*.0.1 is larger
than *7* this jail break will not work on your device.
That means *it will not work* on: 5.8.8, 5.8.9, 5.8.10, ..., 5.8.99999999.
Please do not even think of asking if this message still means what is
written. The message is kept current.

This forum is where I have always found the best Kindle rooting and mod
information: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=150 and
is where the paste above is taken from.  I would love to find out there
were working exploits, but I'm not hopeful.  My Paperwhite's software
version is 5.8.10...

Leo

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Afterthought:
>
> > You've quite possibly already done research about other-OS prospects for
> > your two slow tablets and Kindle Paperwhite.
>
> I should have said 'other-OS _or_ enhancement prospects'.  Sometimes, it's
> just not feasible to convert an embedded device like an e-book reader to
> a completely different OS, and yet after 'jailbreaking' to put it in
> your full control you can make siginficant improvements such as (in the
> case of many recent Kindles) changing the screensaver image, adding your
> own typefaces, and adding applications of your choosing.
>
> In the case of several Nook tablet, other-OS modifications were possible
> because the bootloader wasn't locked and you were permitted to make it
> boot from an SD device holdeing the alternative OS.  I vaguely recall
> that many Kindles have been tougher nuts to crack.
>
>
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