Google for solutions or refer the Help/FAQ Section at the end of this article.įollow iFixit’s Guide on Battery Replacement up to Step 5 to get access to the back of the PCB.

If your Kindle gets bricked I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE. Getting Access to Kindle’s Serial PortĭISCLAIMER: I am not an expert in jailbreaking Kindle, my experience is limited to online guides and tutorials. Power off your kindle by holding the button on the bottom for 10 seconds and select SCREEN OFF. Factory Reset your Kindle and make sure your Kindle is in Airplane mode and all wireless connections are forgotten. Calibre is a great piece of software to manage your Kindle content, find book covers, and metadata among other things. Take note of your Firmware Version, Wi-Fi MAC, Serial#. Sparkfun Bi-directional Logic Level Converterīackup all your Kindle content and Device Info from the setting menu.You can make do with less and also find alternatives that suit you. This is the exact list of tools that I used. Please use Google or refer the following pages: I am not going to explain how to solder or how to establish a serial connection with the USB to Serial converter. Since my Kindle has the latest Firmware as of July 2020, I could only use the serial jailbreak method. Serial Jailbreak - (Other Firmware Versions).

Software Jailbreak - (Firmware Version >= 5.6.x).

There are two methods to jailbreak your kindle: My Kindle Configuration Before Jailbreak Kindle PaperWhite 3 (2015) WiFi

Jailbreaking your Kindle gives you additional features like applying custom screensavers, loading custom fonts, installing apps for reading comic books better, support for popular eBook extensions like EPUB and Mobipocket (Mobi) and the most important of all is using KOreader which handles PDF formatting better on Kindle. Even though Amazon offers a Mail to Kindle service for PDF’s it does not render some aspects of PDFs properly like figures, tables, etc. It’s easy to purchase eBooks from Amazon and read them but a lot of the literature I tend to read is in PDF. These days I read more research papers and white papers than books. The last section of this article titled References might be helpful if you have a different model of Kindle. This jailbreak is heavily based on grant2 post on

Apart from the visual experience eBook readers are environmentally friendly and compact (You can easily read a few hundred books while carrying only a few grams of weight). E-ink displays have improved a lot over the years and reading on one of these devices is visually close to reading material books. Amazon makes one of the best and affordable eBook readers. Amazon Kindle Paperwhite by Matt Gibson is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0Īmazon Kindle Paperwhite 3 is an excellent book reader.

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