<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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.<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><b><span style="text-decoration:underline">Will this jail break work on my current firmware?</span></b><br>
<span style="color:green">If the third field of your firmware version number: 5.8.</span><span style="color:blue"><b>7</b></span><span style="color:green">.0.1 is larger than <b>7</b> this jail break will not work on your device.</span><br>That means <b>it will not work</b> on: 5.8.8, 5.8.9, 5.8.10, ..., 5.8.99999999. <br>Please do not even think of asking if this message still means what is written. The message is kept current.</div><br></div>This forum is where I have always found the best Kindle rooting and mod information: <a href="https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=150">https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=150</a> 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...<br><br></div>Leo<br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Rick Moen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Afterthought:<br>
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> You've quite possibly already done research about other-OS prospects for<br>
> your two slow tablets and Kindle Paperwhite.<br>
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</span>I should have said 'other-OS _or_ enhancement prospects'. Sometimes, it's<br>
just not feasible to convert an embedded device like an e-book reader to<br>
a completely different OS, and yet after 'jailbreaking' to put it in<br>
your full control you can make siginficant improvements such as (in the<br>
case of many recent Kindles) changing the screensaver image, adding your<br>
own typefaces, and adding applications of your choosing.<br>
<br>
In the case of several Nook tablet, other-OS modifications were possible<br>
because the bootloader wasn't locked and you were permitted to make it<br>
boot from an SD device holdeing the alternative OS. I vaguely recall<br>
that many Kindles have been tougher nuts to crack.<br>
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