Detour 🛣️

Note

Detour is NOT a jailbreak. It simply loads WAFs. Stay tuned for UJ!

Detour is a mesquito-inspired, persistent, offline WAF loader that (theoretically) works on all kindles up to 5.18.4.

It is based on an exploit discovered by hhhhhh.

Created by penguins184

Installation

All Kindles, <5.18.1

1. Turn on aeroplane mode.
2. Reboot.
3. Get the detour installer from releases, copy & paste into kindle root. Replace if necessary.
4. Open store, enable wifi when prompted.
5. Detour changes the internal URL the store fetches.
6. Delete .active_content_sandbox (cache), reboot once complete.
7. Run the store again, profit!

Mass Storage (Non-MTP) 5.18.1+

• Follow the above steps but make sure to use a Detour-Fat.zip which contains more files to slow deletion.
• Immediately after copying the unzipped files, whilst STILL connected to USB (do NOT eject), press and hold the power button until you reboot. Refrain from moving the cable around/accidentally unplugging/ejecting.

MTP 5.18.1+

• Soon!

Removal

• Open Detour, press the three dots, click "Uninstall".
• Delete .active_content_sandbox and detour.

Development

• Developing for Detour is the same as developing for Illusion with some additional steps.
• After making your Illusion app, to make it a detour app, all you need to do is bundle and add a link to detour.js.
• Then, you can place the WAF without the scriptlet into your detour/apps folder.
• Detour.js just fixes the top bar so you can navigate back to detour from your WAF.