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Jailbreak your Kindle 3 (2 & 1 also)

October 10th, 2010 by

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Since the kindle dropped so drastically in price I couldn’t resist buying one for my wife & I. I love the little machine, and do a lot more with it than just read books. I’ve had it for a couple weeks now, and rooted it the first night. I just haven’t documented it till today! Lucky for you this is one of the simplest processes ever, and only takes a few minutes. After you jailbreak the kindle it only takes a minute to root the kindle over usb. The process should be the same for Kindle 3,2, and 1.

Well lets begin by jailbreaking the kindle:
1) Start by downloading the following zip (kindle-jailbreak-0.3.N.zip), and unzip it somewhere you can remember
2) Locate the file associated with your kindle:

<pre>"*_k2_install.bin" - K2 U.S.
"*_k2i_install.bin" - K2 International
"*_dx_install.bin" - Kindle DX U.S
"*_dxi_install.bin" - Kindle DX International
"*_dxg_install.bin" - Kindle DX Graphite
"*_k3g_install.bin" - Kindle 3 3G US
"*_install.bin" - Kindle 3 WiFi
"*_k3gb_install.bin" - Kindle 3 3G UK

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3) Upload to your Kindle

On_The_Root

4) Unmount kindle & press the [Home] button

5) Press [Menu] > Settings > [Menu] > Update your Kindle (It will fail, but this is okay)

Menu-Settings

Menu-Update_your_kindle

software-update

update-fail

6) You’re finished! Now your kindle can accept the other hacks released by the mobiread forums! (I’ll upload tutorials to the screensaver hack / usb network / and fonts hack)

Enjoy!

Sources:

- http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88004

[Tutorial] How to unencrypt kindle books

October 9th, 2010 by

IMAG0082

So you want a brand new kindle book & you can’t find it on your favorite torrent/rapidshare/ftp? ;) Well that’s too bad, but there is a giantious amazon store that sell books… But I have two kindles, and when I buy a book, I want to be able to share it without restrictions between my kindles. The old version of the unencrypt hack was a little complicated and required you to find your PID, enter it in a program, and then a program would spit out a decrypted book for you. Well the new Kindle4Pc method is fantastic. It’s easy, and gives you what you’re looking for with the least effort necessary.

First off download the file that I packaged up with all the pieces that you need:

unencrypt.zip
Included in the zip file is:

  1. Python 2.6.6 (version that will work)
  2. KindleForPC-installer(beta) [you NEED this version of kindle4PC for this hack to work]
  3. unswindle.pyw (initiator for the whole process)
  4. mobidedrm.py (magic file)

The process is painfully simple:

  1. Install python
  2. Install Kindle4PC if you don’t have it installed & download your book(s) to be undrm’d
  3. Uninstall Kindle4PC
  4. DISCONNECT FROM THE INTERNET (if you don’t then when you install Kindle4PC(beta) it will upgrade & you DONT want the newest version)
  5. Install Kindle4PC(beta) from the zip file
  6. Execute unswindle.pyw (either by double clicking or dragging to cmd prompt)
  7. This will startup Kindle4PC & all you need to do now is open the book that you would like to decrypt
  8. Now exit Kindle4PC and wait for the magic to happen
  9. Magic will show up in the form of a “save as” window. Just select where you would like to save the decrypted .mobi && enjoy.
  10. To finish everything up just drop it on your kindle with all your other books, and happy reading