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Rooting Your Kindle Fire In One Click

This holiday season has been a good one with the exchanging of many electronic gifts. If you received a Kindle Fire this holiday season, you may have thought about rooting the device. Want to know how hard the process may be? Well lets just say it’s a one click process and here’s everything you need to know:

Open Command Prompt, type in “adb update usb” to get the “.android” folder to appear.

Requirements (Download’s):

- AndroidSDK (link)

- Latest SuperOneClick (link)

Procedure:

  • Run SDKManager.exe (from Android SDK Install Directory), download the “google-usb_drivers package” from “3rd party tools”
  • Download, Platform Tools also (Same way as in previous step)
  • Open Command Prompt, type in “adb update usb” to get the “.android” folder to appear
  • In Windows Explorer type in ” %USERPROFILE%\.android “
  • Open file ”adb_usb.ini” with Notepad (any file editor)
  • Add Following line at the end and SAVE

0×1949

  • Goto, directory where to installed Android SDK and Open google-usb_driver folder
  • Edit  “android_winusb.inf” file
  • Add following lines to both [Google.NTx86] section and [Google.NTamd64] section

;Kindle Fire

%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0006

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0006&MI_01

  • Save and Close
  • Turn ON, Apps from Unknown Sources ( On settings screen goto “DEVICE” and turn it “ON” )
  • Now, plugin your KINDLE FIRE via USB
  • Open command prompt and run adb kill-server then adb devices
  • You shall see a device in the list
  • RUN SuperOneClick and click “root”

- Congratulations you have rooted your Kindle Fire

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