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Monday, February 6, 2012

Custom Screen Savers on Kindle Touch

Before proceeding to install custom screensaver on your kindle touch download the following package
Download | Mirror
We Need this package to enable us to connect to Kindle using SSH.
Extract it into the root folder of your Kindle Touch

Note:
  • The USB Networking can be toggled by entering ;un into the search box of the menu.
  • You can also set the root password (useful before your first login attempt) by issuing ;un password
  • The IP of the kindle is 192.168.15.244

Open the terminal on your Linux Desktop and type the following command:

sudo ifconfig usb0 192.168.15.1; ssh root@192.168.15.244


Example:

blah@blah-desktop:~$ sudo ifconfig usb0 192.168.15.1; ssh root@192.168.15.244

root@192.168.15.244's password:##################################################  N O T I C E  *  N O T I C E  *  N O T I C E  ##################################################Rootfs is mounted read-only. Invoke mntroot rw toswitch back to a writable rootfs.#################################################[root@kindle root]# mntroot rwsystem: I mntroot:def:Making root filesystem writeable[root@kindle root]# cp -f /mnt/base-us/screensaver.png /usr/share/blanket/ad_screensaver/screensaver-unregistered.png[root@kindle root]# cp -f /mnt/base-us/screensaver.png /usr/share/blanket/ad_screensaver/screensvr.png



The /mnt/base-us is the root folder of you Kindle where screensaver.png is your custom screensaver, copy it to the required folder as mentioned above.

Enjoy your Custom screensaver!!! :)

To Know more about Kindle Hacking read this:
Kindle_Touch_Hacking
kindle-touch-5-0-jailbreakroot-and-ssh

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