Russification, jailbreak and khaki Kindle

Kindle can read books in Cyrillic out of the box. But to gain Russian symbols and use the Russian interface, you will not succeed. If for you it is critically important, you have to do jailbreak.

Now jailbreak is possible only for firmware 3.3 and under. Therefore, the latest models of Kindle install it until you can not. After all, only a firmware version of the Keyboard 3.3, the usual same Kindle - 4.0.1, version of the Touch - 5, and the Kindle Fire - 6.1. Although the latter more tablet than an e-book. Differences models we have already wrote. And now tell you about what kind of hacks are already there on the Kindle Keyboard.


We do jailbreak. Installation is a jailbreak hack that is needed to start the work of all the others. It is recommended to put the last possible firmware. In this case, you get the latest firmware and opportunities, and the possibility of hacking. Installing any of the hacks is the following algorithm:

1. Download and unpack the archive with the hack. Download the best of the author's site. To jailbreak it mobileread forum.
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2. Choose the install-file, based on the version of your device. Details of how to do this, there is always the readme.txt inside the archive.
3. Kindle is pumped into the root of the file.
4. Run Update. To do this, click [Home], then [Menu], select Settings, then again [Menu], and already there is Update.
5. Installing the update must be completed without error, that is, on the screen you will see a check instead of a question mark.
6. If you need to remove this hack, for example, before installing the new firmware, you need to select the appropriate uninstall file and execute the items 2-5.

Set Russification. Kindle Russification available through SirAlex efforts. On its website You can find the latest version of Russification. It exists in the following variants:

• Russification physical keyboard (physkeyb)
• Russification interface Kindle 3+ Russian virtual keyboard (loc_ru)
• Russian virtual keyboard and 24-hour time format (keyb)

It should be noted that the latter two options are incompatible with each other. I personally prefer to put the first and the third option. Then there is no change in the format of notes, but about working with notes in another time.

Add hacks to your taste. Here is a list of hacks that I use.

• Kindle-fonts one of the most popular hacks going to jailbreakom. Designed to replace the native Kindle-its fonts.
• Kindle-SS Another popular hack. It allows you to use pictures as screensavers Kindle. They should be the size of 600 × 800, and of course in grayscale.
• usbnetwork hack required for developers, which allows to connect to the Kindle via SSH. This allows you to modify the Kindle as the operating system files or upload books on WiFi. Personally, I prefer to use this for USB or kinlde-mail, but if you want to try, here here instruction in Russian.
• Launchpad hack to help on keyboard shortcuts to launch the desired application.
• Dictaphone Mod It will allow you to do by pressing a key voice memo to wav format. Requires Launchpad.
• Music Shuffler hack add-on for the standard player. It allows you to play music in random order.

This list does not include a lot of hacks that you can see here. For example, you may be interested in MPlayer. This is an alternate player for the Kindle, which allows you to listen to music in formats OGG, WAV, MP3, FLAC, AAC.

How do you set up the Kindle, to read was not only interesting, but also convenient?