Not sure if they forked or wrote their own browser, but it was clearly built just for light mobile pages and book annotations. Of course you could somewhat use Facebook, twitter a little bit but functional web apps were an after thought.
Super cool, and thanks for publishing your image/source. I'm going to try it on my $20 ebay pw3. I want to use it as a distraction-free/portable writing device, so I'm trying to get a USB keyboard working with an OTG adapter, which I think will require building the right kernel module from the PW3 source. When i get it working I'll publish the kernel module etc as an image. LMK if you're interested.
@@pr395 yeah, using a USB otg Y connector (that lets you inject power from a phone charger), and a kernel module + kual script to load + set USB host mode that someone else on the mobile read forums posted for mouse support. I wrote a post (as edrex) www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3982124#post3982124 It works great with the alpine chroot
I love Linux and I love e-readers. I’m not very good with code and computer hacks though. Is there anyone who might be able to customise me a system if I paid them? Thanks
I love where your head’s at. Me too now. I’m a new developer and new non-fiction writer so I want a device for my tech minimalist journey and geek swag while I’m out writing and being creative. Trying to find more videos on this modding.
Thanks for the intel, this is amazing, great work. I followed your instruction and got it work on my kindle, so far I'm very satisfied with it. I have some newbie questions hopefully someone can help me: 1> Is it possible to switch from mobile user agent to desktop agent in Chormium? 2> How do I install an application on Mate desktop environment?
Especially that smooth ghost free partial refresh - holy cow! I ordered myself a pw 4 as it was cheap-ish on black friday sale and I hope to kind of make it a workable linux portable - thing. I hope my hunch of them just selling off old stock and this thing just laying around in storage for a while was right and it doesnt have the newest firmware...
8:53 (notices current Kindle logo on start-up splash) It's running on a newer firmware?!?! I'm going to have to check your guide, as I thought 5.9.7 was the highest that can be jailbroken. I recently got a PW3 (with a malfunctioning cover sensor that I bypassed) that's running 5.9.2 and I'm torn between upgrading it and using it normally, or jailbreaking it and extending its functionality. (Edit: it's 5.9.6.1, not 5.9.7)
sooooooo this worked perfectly on my kindle 10gen, the only problem was that the screen is so smol the start and terminal button merged into one, and i coudlnt even log out xD luckily holding the power button worked for that
@@SimonSchumann installed on my kindle 7th gen (kt2) and the scaling is a bit off, (600x800 pearl screen) everything else seems to be working well, any way to get the desktop environment to display properly - ie going into alpine terminal and changing something?i am not a linux person but willing to learn. thanks again for this. have a nice day
@@_hxythe script in the root directory of the alpine image should let you change the resolution and dpi, on my paperwhite 2 (which i manually made an image and gui start script for) i changed it to grab the display but the DPI is hardcoded to the native 212, if you even still have a kindle try that
It's kinda uncanny to see a Kindle PW browsing modern internet without graphical issue and crashes.
Not sure if they forked or wrote their own browser, but it was clearly built just for light mobile pages and book annotations. Of course you could somewhat use Facebook, twitter a little bit but functional web apps were an after thought.
@@tutacatits supposedly based on webkit, which im guessing is from the early 2010s at latest and is therefore garbage
@@cirkulxso browser wouldn't work after jailbreak in paperwhite 2013?
Super cool, and thanks for publishing your image/source. I'm going to try it on my $20 ebay pw3. I want to use it as a distraction-free/portable writing device, so I'm trying to get a USB keyboard working with an OTG adapter, which I think will require building the right kernel module from the PW3 source. When i get it working I'll publish the kernel module etc as an image. LMK if you're interested.
ericdrex Did you get the keyboard to work?
@@pr395 yeah, using a USB otg Y connector (that lets you inject power from a phone charger), and a kernel module + kual script to load + set USB host mode that someone else on the mobile read forums posted for mouse support. I wrote a post (as edrex) www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3982124#post3982124
It works great with the alpine chroot
I love Linux and I love e-readers. I’m not very good with code and computer hacks though. Is there anyone who might be able to customise me a system if I paid them? Thanks
@@dannygboyo i wish i knew how to do it, i'd legit enjoy getting paid to customize a system. Well, i have some free time, guess i'll try to learn it
My personal dream is to have a digital ink computer with gnu/linux system.
If you have the money, go get the DASUNG 13.3" E-ink Monitor. This is a complete eink monitor. You're welcome.
@@alexisdossantos5625 Thank you. Sadly I am poor.
I love where your head’s at. Me too now. I’m a new developer and new non-fiction writer so I want a device for my tech minimalist journey and geek swag while I’m out writing and being creative. Trying to find more videos on this modding.
Me too, I always find Linux tablet
That's been my dream for past ~13 years
do you think I could connect it to keyboard and put it in landscape mode, to use it as a typewriter?
I don't like the fact that the bootscript for Alpine is in the GPL license...
But it's really cool the fact that you've did this, i respect you.
Thanks for the intel, this is amazing, great work. I followed your instruction and got it work on my kindle, so far I'm very satisfied with it.
I have some newbie questions hopefully someone can help me: 1> Is it possible to switch from mobile user agent to desktop agent in Chormium? 2> How do I install an application on Mate desktop environment?
Especially that smooth ghost free partial refresh - holy cow!
I ordered myself a pw 4 as it was cheap-ish on black friday sale and I hope to kind of make it a workable linux portable - thing.
I hope my hunch of them just selling off old stock and this thing just laying around in storage for a while was right and it doesnt have the newest firmware...
It's now jailbroaken *sunglasses shine epicly*
@@CristalianaIvor and did you get Linux running?
@@bugnugget2516 I mean it already comes with Linux :D
but I was too lazy to make anything substantial iwth it yet
8:53 (notices current Kindle logo on start-up splash)
It's running on a newer firmware?!?! I'm going to have to check your guide, as I thought 5.9.7 was the highest that can be jailbroken. I recently got a PW3 (with a malfunctioning cover sensor that I bypassed) that's running 5.9.2 and I'm torn between upgrading it and using it normally, or jailbreaking it and extending its functionality.
(Edit: it's 5.9.6.1, not 5.9.7)
watching this video makes my laptop slow down ;-)
Is something like this possible on basic Kindle 10 gen. It's basically like a previous Paperwhite features wise...
Is it possible to run non chromium Browsers like Firefox on the Alpine Linux kindle too?
Are you able to rotate to landscape? I guess standard xrandr should work.
wow wow wow, here to replicate this on my oa3
How complex is to flash alpine on a kpw3 using serial cable? (I have no problem to solder serial on kindle)
I have a pw EY21 it has a storage of 1.3GB
Can I use your provided files to run alpine Linux ???
You guys know that the kindle software is built on linux kernel so it is technically linux also.
this is a proot with useland software, running on the stock kindle kernel. basically it's an app you run.
Dear Sir, I have a Kindle 7 gen, want to upgrade the stock pdf reader and use as eink display, please help me
I don't know if I did something wrong, but when I press install kterm extension, kual crashes
sooooooo this worked perfectly on my kindle 10gen, the only problem was that the screen is so smol the start and terminal button merged into one, and i coudlnt even log out xD
luckily holding the power button worked for that
En un kt k5 funciona bien pero se ve la pantalla con mucho zoom
Now if only I could get it to detect and use a keyboard then I'd be playing Cataclysm on it
Awesome👍!!!
How do you install applications
wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux_package_management default user and pw is both "alpine" as detailed here github.com/schuhumi/alpine_kindle
shoud it works on oasis?
Does it still get free data?
This is a Paperwhite 3 and it doesn't have celluar / free data, just wifi.. I'm not sure how it works with devices that have a cellular modem
@@SimonSchumann installed on my kindle 7th gen (kt2) and the scaling is a bit off, (600x800 pearl screen) everything else seems to be working well, any way to get the desktop environment to display properly - ie going into alpine terminal and changing something?i am not a linux person but willing to learn. thanks again for this. have a nice day
@@_hxythe script in the root directory of the alpine image should let you change the resolution and dpi, on my paperwhite 2 (which i manually made an image and gui start script for) i changed it to grab the display but the DPI is hardcoded to the native 212, if you even still have a kindle try that
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