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Winterbreak2 not working on Kindle 5 PW (EY21) 5.6.1.1 (solution) #196

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@olisikh

The Winterbreak did not work for me at all, since May 20 the store is completely not working on my Kindle.

I was trying Winterbreak2, but Experimental browser was not able to open the http://winterbreak2.now.sh page.

There's however a workaround which requires:

  • a computer that is in the same WiFi network with git, npm and node installed
  • Kindle device

You may follow these steps to trigger jailbreak:

  1. Clone the Winterbreak2 server, install it and run. Copy and paste this into terminal:
cd /tmp && git clone https://github.com/KindleModding/Winterbreak2.git
cd Winterbreak2

npm install
node api/index.js
  1. Find out the local IP address of the computer
ipconfig getifaddr en0
  1. Open Experimental browser on Kindle and type: http://<local-computer-ip>:3000. It would render a web page with a Jailbreak button.

  2. Click the button, confirm .mobi file download.

Done!

I hope this helps someone stuck like me.

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