Amazon Devices
How to Firmware Restore your device.
Steps.
1. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL YOUR ADB DRIVERS INSTALLED!!
2. Download the amazon frimware and keep it where you can flash it.
3. Boot into recovery (Volume Down + Power at the same time)
4. Select “adb sideload” or whatever it says using your volume keys and press the power to select
5. Now adb sideload <frimware>.bin
6. Its probably gonna take 5- 10 minutes so be patient and then once the recovery options come up make sure you wipe every thing and cache as well
7. Reboot gonna take another few minutes BE PATIENT!!
8. Now your back to your stock frimware. video Tutorial on these steps below.
I followed various methods trying to root a Fire & 5.3.2.0 and eventually succeded. Great machine, at the price, when rooted.
I purchased another three for various jobs/presents.
The second one I tried to root (using prsviously successful method) bricked. I left the rooting process unattended at the end and I assumed that the failure was due to this (eg, my not choosing the correct option during the process)
The third one I tried to root, paying close attention to th rooting instructions, bricked!
Fortunately, because I placed two seperate orders, I can probably get the two bricked machines replaced.
But I wonder if it would be worth trying to disconnect the battery in one of the machines?
The machines screens do not light up and no changes when pressing ahy combination of power buttn and volume up or down. But when connected to a PC, th pc beeps while in device manager a MTK65 preloader entry can be seen for a few seconds. This occours about every 20 seconds. So there is obviously some communication between PC and tablet.
Anyone got any ideas? I don’t mind breaking one machine.
Or does anyone have the equipment/ability to investigate this fully and get some further understanding? I would gladly donate a bricked machine.
Many thanks to rootjunkie for such an interesting site.
Would you please share the steps you followed to root the 5.3.2.0 ?
I cant seem to root mine with kingroot, while for 5.3.1 was pretty easy.
12-10-16
Now, if you want to remove the ads, I would try the below posted “Free” method in quotes, short of having to pay to do it under “Manage Your Kindle” on Amazon, it’s the safest bet for now. I’m posting this because people are posting that you can do it, but without providing links for or instructions on how:
“Disable the ads with ES File explorer. To do this-
ES File Explorer
Download and unlock the ES File explorer from Amazon app store. Make sure that your kindle fire is rooted, as without rooting, you can’t access the system files.
Click on the “Homepage” button, which you will find at the top of the menu bar and which will take you to the quick access menu.
Click, “/Device”. This option will directly take you to you to your device folders.
Click on the “System” folder to unlock it. As, after the device folder, you have to ensure the system of the device.
Now tap the “App” folder to access the apps.
Now, click the “dctp_apk”, which contains the .apk file that controls all the ads on your Kindle fire HD.
Simply tap the “dctp_apk.apk” file to choose it. When you will select the file, the button will change, which you can find it on the bottom menu bar.
Click the “Rename”. You can find this button the right side of the menu bar which brings up a text field when a file is selected.
Now rename the file as “dctp_apk.bat” and click OK. This will change the file properties of the app that controls the ads.
Now, Kick starts your kindle fire HD without any ads barrier. If this method doesn’t work, then you can go for Kindle fire support to get required solutions for your Kindle fire HD.”
12-10-16
PLEASE look at the XDA Developer thread for the most current comments on rooting the Amazon Fire HD 8 6th gen., or you will be hating it! Link is below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8-hd10/help/help-thread-6th-gen-2016-question-noob-t3482353
Thank you for all your hard work here. I am on Fire OS 5.1.1 and am unable flash TWRP image to enter TWRP recovery. I followed the instructions to the T and nothing. I get an error unknown command after tablet is in fastboot mode. Help
Parents sent me an early Christmas ? that being the Amazon fire HD 8 (6th generation), I’ve been looking into rooting it and was inquiring if there was any solution to rooting this version with OS 5.3.2.. So far, no luck. If anyone has any information on how to root if yet feasible, or once it is.. please, share your knowledge, show us your ways. Much appreciated!
Hi,
I have successfully rooted 2 Kindle Fire 7 wand th the Supertool so I ordered a couple more but unfortunately one came with FireOS 5.3.1.0 and another with FireOS 5.3.2.0, I can’t root either of them. Any updates on how or when this will be possible please.
Thanks in advance
Can Amazon Fire HD 8 6th gen. be rooted?
I got strangest issue. My Fire came with 5.3.1.
I successfully rooted it with SuperTool (via Kingroot). And then I tried installing slim rom, and bricked the tablet…
So I downloaded “fire-OS-5.3.1-update-kindle-global-37.5.5.2_user_552153420.bin” and sideloaded it with ADB.
Everything worked, but now it won’t let me root Tablet anymore! 🙁 Kingroot tried for over an hour and failed. Any ideas why I was able to root it before and not now?
how do you re-enable OTA updates after blocking it? Thanks.
Fire HD 8″ on sale Thanksgiving weekend (Black Friday +.) Many websites, forums & blogs listing as the best Black Friday Android Tablet bang for the buck. Expect 1000’s sold and shipped. A significant number of those buyers will have made the purchase hoping for a root solution. I hope this gives those with rooting expertise incentive to find a solution.