I recently jailbroken/rooted the Kindle PW3 to enable an entire host of capabilities. But for some reason, i decided to register my PW3 to amazon and i found that the Kindle Screensaver hack no longer worked! Putting the device to sleep only resulted in an annoying ad that forced me to the Kindle store. Maybe because i live in a non-ad supported country and have an ad supported kindle.
Searching the web seems to suggest that there was no way to revert this, or maybe, i just couldn’t find any related post.
As i was desperate to keep the “Last” view on screen with the screensaver hack, i started digging into the system. The biggest hint was that this issue arose only AFTER i registered my kindle to amazon. There is a way to fix this! To get into it. I assume that you have the following:-
- A Jailbroken Kindle
- KUAL
- USBNetwork or kterm
- linkss and its related python packages
If you have no idea what the above is, then this process is not for you. But if you do, please proceed.
TLDR; Remove the directory /var/local/adunits to revert to pre-registration state!
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