Kindle why jailbreak

Attach your Paperwhite to your computer and open up the mounted volume. Once you have placed all the files properly, go ahead and eject your Paperwhite from the computer. Remove the USB cable. On the homescreen you should see a new Personal Document:.

Click on the new document to open the. Do just as it says: gently press for a few seconds in the corner of the screen. It will quickly boot over to the jailbreak installation process:. The previous jailbreak document will be replaced with log of the jailbreak process, like so:. Opening the document simply lists off what the jailbreak did which is essentially just a list of what things we talked about earlier in the tutorial like installing the Jailbreak Bridge.

At this point, the device is completely jailbroken! To get started, we need to download two files, a Python for Kindle pack and the actual screensaver hack kindle-python You can download them here: The Official Mobileread Thread free account required.

Before we can use the screensaver hack, we need to have Python installed on the Paperwhite. Once the file has successfully transferred, eject your Paperwhite from the computer and remove the USB cable.

Click OK to authorize the update and then wait a few minutes while it completes the update process. After you authorize the update your device will restart again. Note : You can only use one of these configurations at once. Setting up more than one simultaneously will leave you with a blank screensaver in most cases and crashes and errors in others.

You can create a new text document and simply remove the. The biggest caveat: Unless you're experienced, it's probably best to wait. There isn't much incentive just yet no ROMs, etc and the rooting process will only get easier and safer. And when it does? It'll be awfully tempting to turn your Fire into an outright inferno. Serious question. I always see the "you may brick your phone" argument when rooting is discussed, but I have never once seen anyone actually say that they bricked their phone when rooting.

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