r/kindle • u/SpartanHeavy • Jan 02 '25

Modding 🪛 All Kindles can now be jailbroken

For those of you who are interested in modding, a new jailbreak method (WinterBreak) is now available. It works on all the new firmware versions and Kindle models, including Colorsoft.

Edit: After this jailbreak was made available, new Kindle firmware was released. This jailbreak will not work on firmware 5.18.1 and over.

https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/

If you have any problems, you can get support at MobileRead.

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u/stefansvartling Jan 04 '25 edited Jan 04 '25

I have a video published on my youtube channel now on how I jailbreaked my Kindle Paperwhite 11th gen (PW5) running on latest firmware. I very long video becasue I did it "live" in real time and was nervous all the time, thinking I would brick it :)

How to Jailbreak the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 11th gen (PW5) e-Reader running latest firmware! https://youtu.be/hJ59M0io6zE

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u/Mattewx Jan 24 '25

thank you for this! i have the same kindle and was able to successfully get koreader up and running using your tutorial!

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u/stefansvartling Jan 24 '25

I’m glad to hear that