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kindle-special-offers-killer

Replace the Amazon "Special Offers" ads on an old jailbroken Kindle with your own screensaver — and blank the home-screen ad banner — for free, without paying Amazon's removal fee and without SSH.

  • Add-on
  • Stable
  • Medium brick risk
  • Reversible

Source code

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Before you start

How hard is it?
HardUses the command line or developer tools.
What you need
  • A USB or MIDI cable
  • Comfort with the command line
  • A computer
  • Another hack installed first
Can it break my device?
Small chance of trouble, with a way to recover. It may void your warranty.
Can I undo it?
Yes. You can go back to the official software.
Get itOpens github.com

Did it work for you?

Did kindle-special-offers-killer work on your Amazon Kindle 4?

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Compatibility

Devices: Amazon Kindle 4.

No compatibility information yet.

Getting started

From the project's README ("Install"):

With the Kindle plugged in (showing as a USB drive), from a Bash shell (Git Bash on Windows, Terminal on macOS/Linux):

./install.sh <KINDLEDRIVEROOT> <YOURIMAGE>

Windows, Kindle is drive G: ./install.sh /g ./examples/thewave.png

macOS ./install.sh /Volumes/Kindle my-photo.png

Then, on the Kindle:

  1. Safely eject and unplug.
  2. Menu → Settings → Menu → Restart.
  3. After it boots, press power to sleep it — your image appears. The home-screen banner is blank.

The installer converts your image to a 600×800 grayscale GIF (via ImageMagick, or via the bundled PowerShell helper on Windows), installs the boot worker, and wires it into linkss/bin/linkss.

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Risk and recovery

Brick risk
Medium
Reversible
Yes
Voids the warranty
Yes
Requires opening the device
No

From the project's README ("Uninstall / restore Amazon's originals"):

./uninstall.sh <KINDLEDRIVEROOT> # drops a RESTORE marker reboot the Kindle once (restores .orig, disables the mod) ./uninstall.sh <KINDLEDRIVEROOT> --finish # removes the hook + files from the card

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Credits, license and support

License
MIT