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notmarek / LanguageBreak

A kindle <=5.16.2.1.1 jailbreak
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=356872
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A year after jailbreaking, my PW5 is stuck in a bootloop #68

Open src52 opened 1 month ago

src52 commented 1 month ago

Hi.

I used this jailbreak when it was first released, and it's worked fine for using Koreader. However, it's now stuck in a bootloop. I'm not sure why, or what I can do to revive it. I've kept the device in airplane mode, and I haven't tried to update the device to a different firmware.

There is not a lot of information online about this, but there are some reports of this happening to PW5 devices in particular. (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4460911&postcount=992)

I'm just posting this as a warning for PW5 users, one day your device will reboot, and become bricked.

cy6d55y45d45342c5 commented 3 weeks ago

PW5s die for some reason, not only jailbroken ones, and they removed the serial port, so you can't unbrick it... kobos look like a better option now, internal frame (unlike pb/boox) + firmware on an sd card