![]() |
#61 |
Guru
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 919
Karma: 13928438
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK
Device: Kindle Oasis 3, Kindle Oasis 1
|
Probably because it was sufficiently inaccurate as to be borderline useless for that purpose (I can confirm that its alleged reproduction of a Paperwhite could actually look quite different from the same book on an actual Paperwhite, different spacing, different pagination, different set of HTML elements handled etc etc).
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#62 |
the rook, bossing Never.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 12,235
Karma: 89531599
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Ireland
Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper11
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#63 |
Junior Member
![]() Posts: 1
Karma: 10
Join Date: Mar 2024
Location: Cheranadu
Device: Kindle 10th Generation
|
![]()
Any idea when we would get a jailbreak on this version?
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#64 |
Groupie
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 171
Karma: 1512689
Join Date: Jul 2023
Device: Kindle Scribe
|
Jailbreaks are useless on anything 5.16.3 or above because (in short) Amazon changed how applications are run. You can still update a jailbroken device with a newer firmware and keep the jailbreak, but it won't run much of anything useful.
On top of that, jailbreaking is a game of chance. There is no timeline for anyone to find and implement a security bypass that leads to a jailbreak. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#65 |
Grand Sorcerer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 6,631
Karma: 26963509
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: USA
Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3
|
I had an interesting glitch since this update: I send Sudoku PDFs via Send to Kindle. I happen to have 2 Scribes and when I downloaded one I'd marked up on the other, one of the pages lacked the solution I'd worked out on the first. Markup I made on the 2nd Kindle on the same page did sync back to the first.
I did manual sync on both devices, still those annotations did not show up on second Scribe. Then I removed download on the first and re-downloaded it. The 'solution' was gone. So somehow that entire page of pen annotations failed to get backed up to cloud, even though local file had them in there (until I removed the download). Both should be more or less continuously able to connect to WiFi as I never use Airplane mode. So in reference to @jhowell's findings in post #9, there still seem to be some issues with syncing (at least of pen annotations). It's been awhile since I experimented with sync between the two to see how well it worked, never saw any problems. Sync can be relatively slow (there's more data involved) but haven't seen it fail completely like this. Of course it is troubling even if you only have one Scribe. How will you realize when some annotations haven't been backed up? You can view Notebooks and sticky notes with the Kindle app, but Print Replica pen annotations can only be viewed on Scribe. Even if you can check it in theory, in practice the expectation is that annotations are backed up and in removing a download you cannot lose anything. Last edited by tomsem; 03-18-2024 at 01:58 PM. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#66 |
Grand Sorcerer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 6,631
Karma: 26963509
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: USA
Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#67 | |
Addict
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 254
Karma: 2059433
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Czech Republic
Device: Voyage, Oasis, Scribe, Libra Colour
|
Quote:
![]() |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#68 |
Grand Sorcerer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 6,631
Karma: 26963509
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: USA
Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#69 |
Member
![]() Posts: 14
Karma: 10
Join Date: Dec 2023
Device: none
|
I currently have an unrooted kindle scribe at firmware 5.16.1 but it's forcing me to update before letting me use it. i.e. I'm sort of still in the tail end of the registration process, so I don't have access to most interfaces. Can I prevent the firmware update (I stopped it in the middle of an update) so I can root the device, and if I mess it up and accidentally go through with an update, is there a way for me to revert the device to 5.16.1? I'm a bit scared to do anything with this device at the moment just because I'm afraid of making a mistake.
I also posted about this here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=10 |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#70 | |
Wizard
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 1,193
Karma: 4236616
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Cape Canaveral
Device: Kindle Scribe
|
Quote:
Thank you very much for still doing these deep dives! Do you think these can be safely disabled by renaming their binaries? Like we do with other logging: Code:
BLOCK Amazon Logging: mntroot rw ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/sbin/syslog-ng ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/sbin/loginfo ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/sbin/tinyrot ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/bin/showlog mntroot ro |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#71 |
Grand Sorcerer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 6,658
Karma: 85000001
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Device: Kindles
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#72 |
Wizard
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 1,193
Karma: 4236616
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Cape Canaveral
Device: Kindle Scribe
|
@jhowell
Do you know if the name of the binary is just minerva? And do you know the watchdog's binary name? |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#73 | |
Grand Sorcerer
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 6,658
Karma: 85000001
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Device: Kindles
|
Quote:
/app/bin/KPPMainAppWatchdog /etc/upstart/minerva_service.conf /etc/upstart/minervad.conf /usr/bin/minerva_service /usr/bin/minervad |
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#74 |
Wizard
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 1,193
Karma: 4236616
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Cape Canaveral
Device: Kindle Scribe
|
Thank you so much!
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#75 | ||
Member
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Posts: 11
Karma: 1000000
Join Date: May 2022
Location: United States
Device: Kindle Voyage, Paperwhite, Scribe
|
Quote:
(Tested on a Kindle Scribe running 5.16.9 and Marek’s hard float jailbreak packages.) Code:
mntroot rw ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/bin/minerva_service ln -s -b /dev/null /usr/bin/minervad mntroot ro Some miscellaneous documentation things I noted for those curious:
I hope this was helpful! ![]() |
||
![]() |
![]() |