u/sparklerfish

If you hit trouble or get stuck or confused somewhere while jailbreaking or installing things, ask for help instead of abruptly pivoting to the nuclear option. Factory resetting a jailbroken kindle without restoring OTA binaries can get you in a weird state that requires additional recovery to be able to either install the hotfix or official firmware binaries.

Only factory reset if you know EXACTLY what you are doing and what will happen and why you are doing it. If you didn’t understand the last sentence of the first paragraph, do not factory reset unless someone who DOES has instructed you to. This is not some routine troubleshooting step. This should not be a primary go-to in your toolbox. Stop reaching for it every time you hit a bump. Please.

As of a few days ago, Amazon pushed out this new 5.18.1.1.1 version specifically targeting these older devices which previously were assumed to no longer be receiving updates. Unfortunately, it appears to break both Adbreak and the ability to de-DRM Amazon books.

Devs are poking around and trying to see if they can get Adbreak compatible again, but haven’t had success yet. They have confirmed that it at least doesn’t include the patch that 5.18.6 did that originally patched Adbreak, which gave some hope that simply adding the relevant data from the new versions to the jailbreak would make it work, but alas it seems something else unknown has changed and it won’t be that easy.

At any rate, until and unless a way is found to make Adbreak (or another jailbreak) work on it (which may or may not even be possible), it’s now important again for jailbreaking a 10th gen device to fill up your storage so you don’t get updated before or during the process. And if you’re already jailbroken, ensure OTA updates are blocked.