Tutorial WatchThis - Software Jailbreak for any Kindle <= 5.14.2

[notyou]

Oof, please disregard. Perhaps my initial install worked all along, and the problem was that OOOF, things are so complicated now with KUAL and MRPI! (But woot, finally got it installed. Ok ... now to try and get SSH working!)

[evilpilli]

Hey! I'm currently trying to jailbreak my 7th Generation basic kindle KT2, and am getting stuck at the "application error" after sideloading content, and exiting the demo menu. After a hard reset and pressing the store button the application error persist.
I'm also at 5.12.2, not 5.12.2.2 does this matter?

Hope someone could help. Really miss my Ko-reader on the kindle.

[evilpilli]

Originally Posted by LucidBoi

Just wanted to say that I figured it out.

What did you do to figure this out? I'm stuck at the same step.

[zvdxc]

Noob here, does this work on Kindle Paperwhite 3G++WiFi?

Its reporting the Firmware as 5.6.1.1 (2689890035)

[shamanNS]

First generation Paperwhite? PW1 can be downgraded back to 5.4.4 ( you copy over firmware bin file and force a reboot by holding the power button on Kindle, without ejecting the kindle drive from your computer) and then jailbreak using this old jailbreak method:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=186645

After doing the jailbreak and installing the hotfix you can then update back to to the latest firmware (5.6.1.1).

[sweeperb0t]

Originally Posted by notyou

Hi all - trying to update old KT2 I had. Went through the tutorial and thought I had it when I saw the text messages about Jailbreak installing. But then I tried to install USBNetwork and/or KUAL and somehow it got stuck in some weird state.

Decided to do a factory reset via "DO_FACTORY_RESTORE", and went through the steps again. At step 10 of Jailbreak, I tap on the Store button, but it pops up: "Wi-Fi Settings Locked - This is a manged device..."

So I don't think the Jailbreak is actually running, despite all of the files being there in the .demo folder.

Any advice? I'll probably do another factory restore and try it again. Thanks!

I HAD the exact same issue with my PW2 (5.12.2.2)

I follow all steps and every single time it gets to the "Push store button instead for PW2" it just opens store for a brief second then the "Wi-Fi Settings Locked" message pops up, and no amount of closing it and pushing store button again will fix it.

Yeah, so basically you and I messed up from Step ONE. I had always selected the "English (United States)" option, when the instructions SPECIFICALLY state "English (United Kingdom)"

Did all the exact same steps again and this time, soon as I hit "Store" it restarted and jailbreak was installed.

Continue with the tutorial friend

[userresu]

Originally Posted by latepaul

I have have a KOA2 with 5.14.2 firmware that I'm trying to jailbreak.

I got as far as the post-jailbreak step where you're supposed to install the "hotfix". I copied "Update_hotfix_watchthis_custom.bin" to the root of the Kindle storage but I can't run "Update your kindle" as it is permanently greyed out. I've tried re-starting but that hasn't helped.

Any ideas? Thanks

I got the same issue. The update field iis greyed out on my pw4. Is there no solution to this?

[mergen3107]

Try just restarting the Kindle after you copy the file.

[userresu]

Thanks for the quick reply.

While rebooting, there is running some of the jailbreak script in the corner, stating: "finished installing jailbreak."

But afterwards there is still the issue with the greyes out update field.

[userresu]

nevermind, everything seems to work as described Thanks once again