This blog has moved  Hi, a number of people have reported problems with my kindle devkeys 0.2 and the 3.1 firmware. I can't seem to replicate the problem here on two kindles (both K3GB - UK wifi+3G).

I've just reinstalled the latest jailbreak from mobileread. I then deleted my keystore from the device and reinstalled it from the zipfile downloaded ( Read more... )

This blog has moved Cool, looks like there's now a Kindle 3.1 jailbreak! See here.

Update: The latest jailbreak is available from the normal mobileread thread, here. I've confirmed it works with installing my devkeys.

This blog has moved I've been doing some playing about with the recent kindle 3.1 firmware release. The salient points are:

1. The jailbreak can no longer be installed because Amazon have patched the busybox tar exploit which allowed unrestricted writing to the root filing system. Keep an eye on this thread over at mobileread for information on 3.1 ( Read more... )

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It is obvious that more than one person will want to  write homebrew for the Kindle. However, with my (now defunct) adqdevkeys-0.1 package, it just copies the file over whatever is already there, so we can only have one set on a device at one time. Annoying!

Therefore, I've just written a small Java program which can merge two ( Read more... )

This blog has moved See here.

This blog has moved Hi, just created a new release (0.2) of jrename, available here.

This has a couple of user submitted patches, one to fix a NullPointerException when processing interfaces, and one to fix method/field renaming.

This blog has moved  Finally got some time to update this a bit:

• Get timed events working - freefall and z-life should now work properly.
• Add about page.
• Sort out licensing.

It is available from here. If you've already rooted+installed my developer keys, all you need to do is unzip it onto your kindle over USB. If you're installing for the first time ( Read more... )

This blog has moved Wow, this sort of  thing seems to be in the news these days!

Note: I've updated these instructions for KIF 0.5; please see here for the release notes..

My app is different however: it isn't web hosted, it runs natively on the kindle using the KDK APIs. As I don't have the official KDK, you'll need to jailbreak your kindle and ( Read more... )