Now jailbreak is only possible for firmware 3.3 and lower. Therefore, it is not yet possible to install it on the latest Kindle models. After all, only the Keyboard version has firmware 3.3, the usual Kindle is 4.0.1, the Touch version is 5, and the Kindle Fire is 6.1. Although the latter is more a tablet than an e-book. We have already discussed the differences between the models. Now let's talk about what hacks are already on the Kindle Keyboard. 
Making a jailbreak. Installing a jailbreak is a hack that is required to get everyone else up and running. It is recommended to install it on the last possible firmware. In this case, you will get both the latest firmware features and hacks capabilities. Installation of any of the hacks follows the following algorithm:
- Download and unpack the archive with the hack. It is better to download from the author's site. For jailbreak, this is the mobileread forum.
- We select the install file based on the version of your device. Details on how to do this are always in the readme.txt inside the archive.
- We upload this file to the root of the Kindle.
- Run Update. To do this, click, then, select Settings, then again and there is already Update.
- The installation of the update should complete without errors, that is, you will see a checkmark on the screen, not a question mark.
- If you need to remove this hack, for example, before installing a new firmware, then you must select the appropriate uninstall file and perform steps 2-5.
Installing Russification. Russification of the Kindle is available thanks to the efforts of SirAlex. On his website you can find latest version Russification. It exists in the following variants:
- Russification of the Kindle 3 interface + Russian virtual keyboard (loc_ru)
- Russian virtual keyboard and 24-hour time format (keyb)
It should be noted that the last two options are incompatible with each other. I personally prefer to put the first and third options. Then there is no change in the format of the notes, but about working with the notes another time.
Add khaki to your taste.Here is a list of the hacks I use.
- Kindle-fonts one of the popular hacks coming with jailbreakom. Designed to replace native Kindle fonts with your own.
- Kindle-SS another popular hack. Allows you to use your pictures as Kindle screensavers. They should be 600x800 and of course grayscale.
- usbnetwork a hack for developers to SSH into the Kindle. This allows how to modify files operating system Kindle and download books over WiFi. Personally, it is more convenient for me to use USB or kinlde-mail for this, but if you want to try, then here is the instruction in Russian.
The owners of the wonderful Amazon Kindle 4 devices were probably a little upset when, for the first time, picking up the brought e-book, they realized that it was on english language... Amazon Kindle 4 is available only in English, since it is not officially supplied to Russia and is unlikely to ever be delivered.
But it turns out that this sad misunderstanding can be corrected and it is even very simple to do it.
I would like to immediately clarify that the instructions below only apply to Amazon Kindle 4, which not touch (WITHOUT prefix touch).
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About security measures
Of course, there is a certain risk, but the probability of it is very low, since Amazon has foreseen many problems and made life easier for inquiring Russian minds.
The most important thing is fully charge it before russifying the Kindle.
In almost all cases of failure, Amazon Kindle 4 will automatically launch the recovery system to its original state after rebooting.
In the event of a lack of charge during the operation of the e-book recovery system, no one knows how it will behave after the subsequent charging and whether it will charge at all in this state.
Therefore, do not tempt fate and just fully charge your device before the Amazon Kindle 4 Russification process.
Russification of Amazon Kindle 4
Russification is possible only after installing a third-party firmware called JailBreak. This firmware, most likely, will neither remove nor add a single one to the functionality of your kindel new function... It will only allow you to add an additional interface language.
- Loading
- The downloaded archive contains 2 files: data.tar.gz and RUNME .sh, which must be placed in the root drive of Amazon Kindle 4. This is how we throw these files.
- We reboot the device. To do this, you need to disconnect the USB cable from the computer and click in sequence:
- button Home
- button Menu
- select item Settings
- button Menu
- select item Restart
After that you will see beautiful pictures with a filling ruler. After the end of the book will return to its original position, as after the normal switching on of the device.
- Uploading the file
- The downloaded archive will contain 2 files: russian.keyb and update_ru_RU_4.04_k4w_install.binto be placed back in the root directory. Delete file RUNME .sh, which remained from JailBreak, is not needed.
- After disconnecting the USB cable from the computer, launch the Russification of the Kindle 4. To do this, click in sequence:
- button Home
- button Menu
- select the item Settings
- button Menu
- select item Update Your Kindle
Then he will once again make sure that you really want to do this and will start the process of Russification.
- After the update, you just need to select the downloaded Russian language and enjoy the successfully completed process.
To select, you must perform:- button Home
- button Menu
- paragraph Settings
- to push to the right in order to go to the second settings page
- and select item Device Languagewhere to choose Russian.
- After selecting the language, Amazon Kindle 4 should reboot.
P.S. If you have done everything, but you do not have the Russian language in the list, then you need to do everything from the very beginning. That's exactly what happened to me. After the second time, everything worked and was Russified.
If the software does not update automatically, you can update it yourself:
1. Check the version software your Kindle Paperwhite (2015): Menu »Settings» Menu »Device Information (Menu» Settings »Menu» Device Info.
2. If the Firmware version is less than the current one (5.10.3), download the update file.
3. Connect the reader to the computer with a USB cable.
4. Copy the update file to the root directory of your Kindle drive. Make sure the copying process is complete!
5. Disconnect your Kindle Paperwhite (2015) from your computer.
6. Start the update process: Menu »Settings» Menu »Update Your Kindle
7. Wait for completion and reboot. This process can take several minutes. Do not turn off the device during the update!
Timeline of software changes
5.10.3 (15.02.2019)
5.10.1.1 (17.10.2018)- Scrolling home screen: allows you to get even more tips, tricks and other information.
- Themes: Allows you to save your font and page settings so you can use them when needed.
- Return of borrowed books: easy to make using the menu (long press on the book, as an option).
- Battery percentage: now displayed in the status bar.
- Button Labels: Now appear under each button in the toolbar and navigation.
5.9.7 (31.07.2018)
- To return a borrowed book, press the book menu (or long press on it) and select "Return".
- Improving performance, etc.
- Minor changes and improvements.
- You can now install your favorite fonts on your Kindle and read e-books using any of them by choosing a font from the Display Settings (Aa) menu (Font → Custom → Custom Fonts). Preload required files OTF or TTF fonts to the fonts directory by connecting your Kindle to your computer.
- Performance improvements and other improvements.
- Disabling the text selection menu is available in the menu: Settings → Reading options → Selected passages and information about the book → Selected passages menu.
- Performance improvements and other improvements.
- Advanced Search. Book search now returns results from your notes and quotes.
- Watch while reading. You can enable the time display in the settings: Аа → Reading settings → Clock while reading → On.
- Performance improvement.
- Listen to audiobooks from your library or download from the Audible store. Connect bluetooth headphones or speaker system to play sound.
- It's now easier to free up storage space on your device. In section " Extra options»In Settings, select Storage Management and use one of two methods to free up space on your Kindle. You can delete content by type (Books, Documents) or delete those book files that have not been opened for a long time. Content uploaded to cloud service Send to KIndle can be downloaded back to the device by selecting All mode for your library. Content that was uploaded to the device via a cable will be permanently deleted!
- Font Bold: Any font can now be bold (5 levels) to improve readability and comfort. Increasing the font weight is available from the "Screen Settings" (Aa) menu in book reading mode.
- Additional font sizes: You can now choose from 14 font sizes for reading, according to personal preference.
- Changing the search results: the chapters of the book in which the search word or phrase was found are displayed.
- Improved performance.
- Minor changes.
- Reading with a jagged right edge. You can turn off justification in the "Aa" - "Page" menu for books that support the "Enhanced Type" feature (indicated on the book page in the Kindle Store).
- Quick selection of text passages. Simply tap and drag your finger, or tap again to deselect.
- Improved manga page flipping. By pulling left or right while reading, you can adjust the speed or direction.
- Previewing reversals in the manga. A two-sided spread will be displayed at the bottom of the screen. By touching it, you can go to the full-scale image. Touching it again closes it.
- Cropping fields in the manga. Can be turned on in the menu "Aa" - "Display settings".
- Improved display of images in tables. Images can now be placed inside the table or set as backgrounds.
- Auto-update information in Goodreads. You can now turn on automatic tagging of books as "Reading Now" when you start reading a book, and "Read" when you finish.
- The Amazon Ember Bold typeface has become even bolder (not noticeable).
- Added Amazon Ember font and thickened Amazon Ember Bold specially designed for reading e-books, taking into account the wishes of users.
- Minor changes.
- Minor changes.
- Improved manga handling. Flipping, zooming and panning are accelerated. You can press and hold to quickly flip through pages.
- New design of the settings menu. For more convenient use.
- Improved library view. Files uploaded by the user are now displayed both as "all" and "uploaded".
Today I got my hands on a Kindle 4 touch and I will try to Russify it, considering some of the pros and cons of this device along the way.
So, let's begin. The Kindle 4 touch itself was bought on amazon.com itself through a forwarding company. The customer also bought a leather cover with a flashlight. Let me remind you that the e-ink screen itself does not glow, so if you plan to read in the dark, it is better to buy the cover with a backlight right away.
If anyone is wondering how to buy a kindle, or how you can buy it yourself on amazon.com, welcome to our website. , if you do not find, ask, they will not leave you unattended. In this review, I decided to show the kindle live. Those. take a photo live and not download a photo. Here is this cute little animal, in an equally cute cover.
The first impression is very positive. The book is neat, light, the screen responds quickly enough to pressing. And after the device has been placed in the cover (the cover, in turn, is made of very high quality and, in addition, has a frame made of dense rubber), you begin to receive a truly aesthetic pleasure. The first step is to update the firmware to the latest. I have already described how this is done earlier, but I will repeat myself.
- Download the update file from here.
- We connect the Kindle to the computer using USB.
- Copy the downloaded file to the root of the Kindle.
- We disconnect the device from the computer.
- Go Menu-\u003e Settings Once again Menu-\u003e Update Your Kindle and wait.
- After rebooting, go Menu-\u003e Settings Once again Menu-\u003e Device info, there should be your firmware version in the "Firmware Version" line.
(All my actions are carried out with firmware 5.0.3) First, we put a jailbreak from Yifan Lu (for firmware versions 5.0.0 or 5.0.1) or from ixtab (for 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.3). Install it as follows:
- Download the jailbreak file from the links above and unpack it.
- We connect the Kindle to the computer.
- Copy the data.tar.gz file to the Kindle root
- Restart Kindle Menu-\u003e Settings Menu-\u003e Restart
After you unpack the downloaded jailbreak archive, I would advise you to read the readme.txt file. It describes the installation process and possible problems.
Now you can actually start Russification. Let's start with the Russian keyboard. Here is a guy who made a Russian keyboard, and in fact there is also an installation manual and all the necessary additional material. Now let's try to Russify ourselves. So, in order:
- Download the package itself and unpack it.
- We connect the Kindle to the computer.
- We throw the update-kt-install-keyboard-ru- file to the Knidla root
.bin - Disable Kindle
- Go Menu-\u003e Settings, Menu-\u003e Update Your Kindle, confirm.
After the update, an icon with a symbolic globe will appear on the keyboard field. Selecting this icon will change the keyboard layout to Cyrillic. To return to english layout you should select the globe icon again. To enter the letters "e", "x", "b", "f", "e", "b", "u", press the letter "y" and hold the touch for 2-3 seconds. After that, a series of additional Cyrillic letters will appear above the top row of the keyboard. (This row will also appear from a long hold on the letter "z"). To remove the Cyrillic layout, copy the file update-kt-uninstall-keyboard-ru-
Despite the development of technologies and their widespread introduction into our daily life, reading until recently remained aloof from progress. Various readers on phones of any manufacturers are convenient in terms of compactness, but not very pleasant for sight. And the autonomy of such a solution is questionable - almost all smartphones need daily charging. This is tolerable for the home, but fraught with a lack of communication on the road - finding an outlet, for example, on the train is problematic. The first signs of changes in the reading process, which in the future can put an end to traditional book publishing, were specialized devices for viewing text files... Elink technology, e-ink, is a breakthrough. Concern for the safety of vision has found a visible embodiment. The advantages of electronic ink are undeniable - from a week to two months without recharging, the screen is close to ordinary paper (in the latter, high-contrast elink). The disadvantages include extreme fragility - just one fall or too strong pressing on the screen is enough - and that's it, efficiency is restored only in the service, by replacing the broken part. The fact is that almost all existing readers are produced on a glass substrate, where the elink screen lies. It is notorious for its inimitable fragility, with replacement costs approaching 50% of the device's price. Which, by the way, does not please with low numbers. The disease of fragility was defeated by replacing glass with flexible plastic and optimizing the design, but the price increased even more. Cheap elink e-readers were an unattainable dream until the online monster Amazon took over the market. Its series of reading devices, collectively called the Kindle, has dropped price tags to pleasant heights. For example, a very easy-to-use reader with a 6-inch screen is one of the most last generations - Kindle 4, sold for $ 69, with worldwide shipping. Customers are expected to spend their money in the built-in online store buying books. In the post-Soviet space, this, without a doubt, useful opportunity not available. And most of our fellow citizens, frankly, consider it beneath their dignity to pay for virtual goods. Like, why pay for what is on thousands of sites, two clicks away? Leaving aside the legality of using collections of online libraries (the topic of copyright is vast and multifaceted), let's talk about something else.
Attention! All instructions refer to readers without touch screen and only for Kindle 4!
Having unpacked a small box, our fellow citizen is faced with a surprise - the number of formats is exhausted by mobi, txt, pdf. Not a lot, considering that in “these your Internet” the fb2 format is more familiar to the Russian-speaking user. And converting each book separately is still a pleasure. With built-in Wi-Fi and dedicated email addresswhere the file is sent, you can get back the book already in mobi format and download it directly to your device. But unfortunately, open access to the network is not everywhere. You can pre-alter all the texts in one fell swoop excellent program Caliber. In our opinion, these are half measures. It is much more interesting to teach Kindle 4 to understand all formats (including fb2), teach it Russian and slightly modify the built-in software. It is not so easy to do all this, but only once.
Those who want to reflash their Kindle without any risk can get it by putting it closer to the computer - we are starting our show. Press the Home button, go to the menu, to the Settings item. Scroll down to see the software version. If the numbers are identical to 4.1.0, that's good, one step is missing. If the numbers are smaller, you first need to update. Connect the device to the computer and upload the file ( http://yadi.sk/d/oBbwwG_J1gl6q) into the reader without creating any folders. Feel free to disconnect the Kindle, and after going through the confusing menu along the Home -Menu -Settings - Menu -Update Your Kindle path, select the last item. Do not be alarmed by reboots, everything is ok. When the device calms down, take a look at Settings and see if the version numbers have been updated.
Hacking the Kindle 4 reader
The reader received current version firmware, but that's not all. Now we have to force the Kindle to accept programs that were not originally intended for it. Otherwise, Russification and reading fb2 will not take place. In order for the device to get full functionality, you need to play the role of a hacker and hack the device for a couple of minutes. Let's do that. Download the archive ( http://yadi.sk/d/y2c-AUi51gntc) ... Unpack it anywhere. From there we need to take the data.tar.gz archive, the ENABLE_DIAGS file, the diagnostic_logs folder. Copy them to the Kindle memory without making folders on the device. Unplug the cable and restart the device (menu-settings-menu-restart). The reader will reboot to the text menu. Use the joystick to navigate it to point D) Exit, Reboot or Disable Diags. Select it (joystick left or right). In the submenu, you will see the logical items of the reboot system, after selecting it, the device asks if it understood you correctly. Choose to continue. The Kindle will finally agree with you by going into a reboot. For a few seconds, the Jailbreak text, familiar to all iPhone owners, will freeze on the screen. The reader will show the text menu on the screen again. It is clear that even a jailbroken device cannot be used in diagnostic mode, so we force the Kindle to go into a standard state. Go to Exit, Reboot or Disable Diags, disable diagnostics, confirm to the untrustworthy device that you know what you are doing (to continue). We remind you that selection and movement of items is done with a joystick. The reader will playfully wink the screen and reboot. You should see the new book You are Jailbroken in the list of books. This is a kind of humorous test of the correctness of hacking.
Add Russian language to Kindle 4 after jailbreak
Let's add Russian to the list of supported languages. Download this archive if you have a gray device ( http://yadi.sk/d/LCOO3bG31guS6) or this ( http://yadi.sk/d/jupN3q0c1guiG) if black. In both the first and second options, move update_ru_RU_4.07_k4b / w_install.bin and russian.keyb to the piece of hardware. Update through the item in Home -Menu -Settings -Menu - Update Your Kindle. Now the Russian language will appear in the settings (in Device Language). The reader will restart, showing us a Russian-language menu and a virtual keyboard.
We connect the reader to Wi-Fi
The firmware was updated, hacked, Russified, but what about the goals set for us? Don't worry, the time has come for the cynical introduction of features into the device that the excellent company Amazon has not invested in it. If you have not yet registered your device on the company's website, please do so. Hopefully open wi-Fi point near you, fortunately, after free distribution of routers by many providers around in abundance. Connect your Kindle to Wi-Fi. There is a Turn Wireless item in the menu. Select On and see if there is a connection. Since this way the device connects only to access points supplying ip connected devices, not all points will be available. Connection failed or need to enter a password? Go to Home-Menu - Settings-Wi-Fi Networks (view). There, scan the available access points again, select the desired one and click connect. Enter the network name manually, set the password in the enter other Wi-Fi networks section in the same place. You can check if the Internet is available in the browser on the Home\u003e Menu\u003e Experimental\u003e (launch browser) path.
Registering a Kindle with Amazon and installing an alternative fb2 reader
The network is available, proceed to registration. It's in Menu-settings-registration. Gone? Install the Cool Reader program, which can read fb2 and pleases with a wealth of settings. Download it from here ( http://yadi.sk/d/3jLuUBix1gtI6), drop it onto the memory card, unpacking everything into the device memory without changes. Do not forget that after any archive we abandoned, you must disconnect your Kindle from your computer. Update the device with the update item, as you did just above. After restarting, Cool Reader appears in the menu. Let's update it too, perhaps. Take the archive from here ( http://yadi.sk/d/NWyuzNAQ1gva0), transfer it to the reader and the cr3 folder (it is already there), replacing the files. It remains to customize the fully functional program to your liking. Launch CR3 Runner, go to menu-settings. By manipulating the joystick, get to the language settings (press down, the center button, confirm the transition to Russian). Now we go back through home-menu-close. By restarting the program, you will see that everything has become clearer and more pleasant - we are greeted by a Russian-language menu. After going to the same menu, press the joystick to the right, there is a tab "Page" and "Styles". Adjust the font size, line spacing, as you like. All settings are made with a joystick, which is not surprising, since there is no touch screen. You can apply the changes made if the cursor is not on the numbers in the windows. Just press Home.
The last thing we do today would upset Amazon. All of the $ 69 e-readers come with ads that don't get boring as they act as screensavers. Since, as already mentioned, our countries are not included in the number of eligible customers of the online store, advertising does not help the company to sell, and we - to buy. Let's eliminate this oversight in the most cynical way by disabling advertisements completely. Download (http://yadi.sk/d/1rf-aQR61gwvw) and extract update_noads_0.5_k4x_install.bin from the archive. Disconnecting conscience, move the file to the device memory, remembering to disconnect it from the computer later. Update the Kindle with the tried and tested Update Your Kindle item in the settings. On the next reboot, you will not see fresh ads.
So, having tricked the Kindle 4, we made it more interesting for people who speak Russian. Nothing else prevents us from enjoying reading. Indeed, contrary to the opinion of the older generation, young people read a lot. Not particularly eager to return to the old image of paper books. In addition, the price of a dozen of such works, printed on plain paper, will pay off the purchase of the device with interest, and then you will only save. It looks like it's time for publishers and retailers to start thinking about pricing and the move to the internet before they get sent into retirement from a company like Amazon.
