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After getting frustrated with Amazon randomly deleting some books from my Kindle I finally decided to get it together to jailbreak the thing. And boy was it a journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a 7th Gen Kindle from 2014 that I’ve had on airplane mode for years. A lot of years. It was still on FW 5.6.X. “Great, this will be simple,” I thought. After all https:\/\/kindlemodding.org\/<\/a> has a walkthrough as easy and step by step as any jailbreaking site I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But… it was not going to be quite that easy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To start with, I had two options: Winterbreak (required me to register the Kindle) and Winterbreak2 (which did not). Winterbreak2 it is! Well slow down there, cowboy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First you need to run Kindle-Filler-Disk to make sure you don’t have enough space on your Kindle to allow an OTA update to overwrite all your hard work. And, for whatever reason, this took hours<\/em>. I have no idea why a Python script took hours to fill up a 3 gig disk but here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok, stepped away, now I’m back and ready to Winterbreak2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything was straightforward until it told me to go to https:\/\/winterbreak2.now.sh\/<\/a> THERE WAS A PROBLEM LOADING THIS WEBSITE my Kindle proudly declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, there was a problem loading all <\/em>websites. I was completely stumped until I stumbled on a discussion about how all Kindles with firmware lower than 5.16.X lost the ability to visit sites due to the certificate expiring. I quickly checked this against a http site and, sure enough, I could access that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went to check out the latest official firmware available from Amazon to see if I could upgrade and then jailbreak. And… the latest available is 5.12.2.2. So no https for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried to register the Kindle to my Amazon account on 5.6.X but the device just errored out when attempting to do so. So I went ahead and updated to 5.12.2.2 without much of an idea about what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully after the upgrade I was able to register the Kindle. But Winterbreak still wouldn’t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, following the LocalStorage Replacement<\/a> troubleshooting instructions, I was able to get the jailbreak working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that it was just a matter of getting everything installed and ready to go. I didn’t even need the disk filler script since there was no newer firmware available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After I got KOReader working I spun up an instance of calibre-web to get the OPDS feed and got my Kindle directly connected to my library. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I’ve got a great reader directly connected to my Calibre library without any need to directly connect the device to my laptop again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After getting frustrated with Amazon randomly deleting some books from my Kindle I finally decided to get it together to jailbreak the thing. And boy was it a journey. I have a 7th Gen Kindle from 2014 that I’ve had on airplane mode for years. A lot of years. It was still on FW 5.6.X. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[49,51,50],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-jailbreak","tag-kindle","tag-modding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-liquid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-liquid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-liquid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-liquid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-liquid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-liquid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-liquid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-liquid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-liquid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-liquid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-liquid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}