Amazon Kindle Fire hit the market as a ebook reader, yet it seems to have affected the market of tablet PCs. Well, the reason is simple. There are many people who have ended up buying a tablet PC to serve to their need for reading ebooks.
It is a fact that Kindle Fire is way cheaper than any of the tablet PCs in the market, people are preferring to go with this ebook reader rather than shedding their money on any tablet PC which they would never use to its full potential.
Since Kindle Fire runs on Android, you can root it too. Yes, Amazon did not try to stop the rooting of its ebook reader, so we have brought you the tutorial to root Kindle Fire. This method is actually a technique one click root Kindle Fire.
Steps To Root Kindle Fire – One Click Root
A developer on Android Forums have actually rooted Kindle Fire. According to him, all we need to is make ADB work with Kindle Fire and then the very famous SuperOneClick would take care of rest of the process.
In order to start with it, you need to make sure that the ADB is installed and setup on your computer. For that, download and install Java SE Software Development Kit (SDK). (Download the first icon in the list labelled as Java Platform JDK). And then download the respective Android Software Development Kid (SDK) for the OS you are working on. And then install the same on your computer after unzipping it.
Now, check out this thread and download the latest version of SuperOneClick v2.2. We are now all set to proceed with the things in order to root Kindle Fire.
- First you need the Source Code Kit for Kindle fire. And this can be downloaded from here
- After setting up the SDK, navigate to %USERPROFILE% in the Android folder and look for the file named as adb_usb.ini
- And there, open the file using a notepad and add the below line at the end of the code
0×1949
- Now navigate the SDK folder on you computer and look the folder, google-usb_driver. Inside that folder, open the file android_winusb.inf and add the below code to the Google.NTx86 and Google.NTamd64 section
;Kindle Fire
%SingleAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0006
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_1949&PID_0006&MI_01
- Now its time to plug in your Kindle Fire to the computer and then open the Device Manager. In the Device Manager, you need to update the drivers of the device
- While updating the driver, go with method of choosing the file manually. And then choose the file android_winusb.inf that you have edited in the above steps
- While doing that, you need to make sure that your Kindle Fire is running in USB Debugging mode and also enable the option labelled as Installation of apps from unknown sources
- Now launch the command prompt and fire the below two commands
adb kill-server
adb devices
- Now just launch the SuperOneClick root tool and then click on the Root button and that is it.
Just give it few minutes, and that is it. This is how you can root Kindle Fire. And you have seen that method is about one click root for Kindle Fire. Try it out and let us know if you face any issues.