Onward and Upward to 3.1 for Me

I decided to download and install the preview version of the 3.1 version of the Kindle firmware tonight. I had no special reason to do so, other than a bit of time on my hands — oh, and so I could report on it to my gentle readers, of course.

The news I’ve read in web forums indicates that once 3.1 is installed, any of the “jailbreak”-related hacks will not be removable, at least until the smart people who came up with them figure out how to bypass whatever the Amazon developers changed that affects these hacks. So first I uninstalled my screen-saver hack (the only hack I had installed) and then the jailbreak hack. I then followed Amazon’s instructions, downloading the appropriate patch file for my WiFi-only Kindle 3, saving it in the top-level directory on my Kindle, then ejecting it and selecting the “Update” option from the settings menu.

All is good to go and my K3 shows it’s now at software version 3.1. I’ll play around with it for a day or two, then get back to you here with anything interesting or otherwise noteworthy about it (or at least anything that will fill out another blog article).

PS (2011/02/18): It appears Amazon is already rolling out this update via automated downloads/updates, so you may want to uninstall any hacks ASAP if you are concerned about possibly not being able to uninstall them later.