Amazon Kindle Fire Rom Install Tips
1. Learn how to use the kindle fire utility or KFU. It can do many use full things to the fire like install a custom recovery and rooting the device, also installs FIRE FIRE FIRE which gives you a boot menu.
2. Read the best Kindle Fire guide ever. Link Kindle Fire Guide For Beginners
3. How to install a custom Rom like CM10 you are going to enter a custom recovery like TWRP or CWM. then make a nandroid backup. Next Wipe data, cache, & dalvik cache. Now install / flash the rom zip and gapps then reboot, thats it.
4. Bricked your Kindle Fire? Stuck on the kindle fire screen? Buy a Factory cable from ebay which will boot you into fastboot and you will be able to use KFU to flash FFF and TWRP then restore it.
i tried to install cyanogenmod on my 5th generation kindle fire.but it stuck on bootloop and my recovery also not working.help me out.
My 5th gen 7″ tablet also updated to Fire OS 5.1.2. Will the SuperTool work with 5.1.2? If it does what is the process for rooting using SuperTool on Windows. When I chose “root” I was given two choices. In what order do I perform them? Do I do both?
Hi. So I have 5th gen 7″ Fire tablet that I’ve rooted following your tutorial and everything worked great. But the last few days I’ve had problems with it connecting to my WiFi network. It just cycles through but never connects. At first I could get it to connect by either rebooting or swithing between my router and my router extender. But now nothing seems to do the trick. I don’t know if it’s related but I’ve recently switched from an Arris gateway model TG1682G provides by xfinity to a netgear N600 cable modem router. All of my other devices connect just fine. If anybody has any answers I’d love to hear from you. Thanks.
Same exact situation here Derek. I tried to disable the horrible kindle launcher through adb, but no luck. Can’t do much with out root access. Any help with 5.1.2 would be great!
Somehow Amazon updated OTA to 5.1.2. No root access anymore. Can still access play store but supersu no longer granted access, Nova cannot be primary launcher. Luckily I can still access all google aps. I had blocked OTA with super tool, not sure how those fuc^ers hacked into my tablet. Any suggestions?
Same thing happened to mine. Researching now to figure it out. My tablet seems to work fine for now. Can use google, gmail, and appstore. I have not tried to download books or music yet. Hoping there will be a fix soon?
Hi Rootjunky, ive got a household of kindle’s 5th gen which ive been able to successfully install google play thanks to you and it works perfectly. i also have an amazon kindle fire hd version 7.5.1_user_5174320 obviously it doesn’t have dev options so am i right in thinking i would need to root the device first or is it just a case that i wouldn’t be able to install google play on this device?
In the 5th Generation Super Tool, the command under option 6 root device, “fastboot.exe oem append-cmdline “androidboot.unlocked_kernel=true” doesn’t actually work. I’ve tried lots of different syntax similar to this, including replacing oem append-cmdline with reboot -c in the hopes that it would work. I’ve tried to rewrite the /default.prop file with ro.secure=0 and ro.adb.secure=0, but I can’t write the files. I have no idea how to get past the line to unlock the kernel. Once I’m past that part, the rest should be easy, but because the above command is failing, the subsequent command “adb remount” also fails with a permission denied error. Anyone have any idea what to do about the fastboot oem append-cmdline “androidboot.unlocked_kernel=true” failure?
I’m on Kindle Fire OS 5.1.1 and my product is “THEBES”
Just so everyone knows, I am completely clear on how to run fastboot and adb and all that. I can successfully get into fastboot and commands work as expected, except for the one above. Everything else seems to be fine. I suspect that Amazon changed the bootloader or kernel options and now fastboot oem append-cmdline isn’t a valid fastboot command.
that is because your bootloader doesnt allow this command you dont have the Amazon Fire 5th gen 7in tablet
Not trying to root the old Fire tablet, just trying to get play store installed. I’ve run all the files and cannot get it to log in. Consistent, Google play services has stopped error.
I’m on Windows 10. My command prompt always gives me “system cannot find path specified”. I have downloaded latest Android SDK and Windows SDK. I had to unhide AppData folders too. But still no luck getting command prompt to find platform tools or tablet.
Hey there!! Thanks much for your instructional on youtube and your supertool, i had a great time rooting my 5th gen and am enjoying the root access on the device..
I have a request though, would you have a guide on expanding the internal memory of the device? I have read some articles on how i can use the sd card to create a partition to ‘extend’ my internal memory but cant seem to find any concise instructions..
Happy new year too!
yeah i should really look into that one