HSN has the kindle Fire on flex payments and I was trying to find out if it is the new version that I've heard can't be rooted or is it the original that can? I already have the Original which I've rooted and running custom rom on but I wanted to buy one for a gift for someone but only if I can root it. I've done some searching but can't seem to figure out which model HSN is selling.
Hearnbiz said:
HSN has the kindle Fire on flex payments and I was trying to find out if it is the new version that I've heard can't be rooted or is it the original that can? I already have the Original which I've rooted and running custom rom on but I wanted to buy one for a gift for someone but only if I can root it. I've done some searching but can't seem to figure out which model HSN is selling.
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I just Googled "hsn Kindle Fire", found Kindle Fire 7" 8gb on the result list......went to HSN's website and the description was clearly the 2nd gen Kindle Fire as it was specifying the 1.2GHz CPU and 9 hour battery life. The 1st gen Kindle has a 1GHz CPU and specifies an 8 hour runtime.
http://www.hsn.com/electronics/kind...-fi-tablet-with-accessories_p-6962350_xp.aspx
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Yep, I clearly didn't search enuff b4 posting this question. I was in the heat of the moment about to pull the trigger on buying it but after I posted this question I continued to search and figured it out and didn't buy it. Maybe this thread can save others from buying it as well if they expect it to be rootable. Sorry, didn't mean to waste xda's valuable server space and enter a legal proceeding yes it "clearly" does state.
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Hearnbiz said:
Yep, I clearly didn't search enuff b4 posting this question. I was in the heat of the moment about to pull the trigger on buying it but after I posted this question I continued to search and figured it out and didn't buy it. Maybe this thread can save others from buying it as well if they expect it to be rootable. Sorry, didn't mean to waste xda's valuable server space and enter a legal proceeding yes it "clearly" does state.
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lol......don't worry about it.....u were just "clearly" (lol) confused.....it happens to us all at one point or another
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After a little further research it seems a few ppl have had some luck with rooting it... It looks like a shaky proceedure atm but promising but no roms exsist as of now. Thought I should point that out as to not completely hinder someone elses decision to purchase the kf gen 2... As for myself I'm still gonna pass and continue enjoying the original kf and all its incredible development.
Yes confused I am, blame it on the Christmas tree
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NOOB question:::Is the development for kindle fire 1st & 2nd gen the same, i.e do the same roms work on both or does one have to use a separate rom
Please do not use anything that is intended for the first gen device you will end up with a fancy paperweight. No roms or root methods should be used they are only intended for first gen devices.
Thnks for the info..m glad i didnt do anything stupid
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If u install custom Rom to ur device thn u'll be out of warranty
Best try any thing after warranty ends
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pradeep kumar v said:
If u install custom Rom to ur device thn u'll be out of warranty
Best try any thing after warranty ends
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That's what this whole site is about. Obviously you're invalidating your warranty if you do this, but the whole point is to have a better UI than what Amazon provides.
One comes to this site in hopes of finding out that there really is hope to making their tablet/phone into a supertablet/superphone.
So it's fine to flash stuff to your kindles peoples. Don't listen to this guy.
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Thanks buddy if any thing happens you're the one who's goin to be blamed... Unless and untill kindle gets malfunctioned...
:-S
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pradeep kumar v said:
Thanks buddy if any thing happens you're the one who's goin to be blamed... Unless and untill kindle gets malfunctioned...
:-S
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In all fairness, it's not our responsibility to make sure any particular user fully understands the risks of attempting to modify their device...as a matter of fact, it's expected that they do. If someone doesn't have the knowledge and/or the common sense to do the appropriate amount of research before taking on such an endeavor, then they deserve any adverse outcome that happens as a result.
This may be a stupid question which has a simple answer (no). But I thought I'd ask anyway.
When the ubuntu for tablets comes out on Thursday, will it be possible for Kindle Fire 2 users to flash it just like how cyanogenmod is flashed (TWRP) or the method described here? - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install
I'm guessing not, but worth a try.
Feel free to use this for discussion.
Edit: Turns out Ubuntu mobile is utilising some of cyanogenmod's code - https://plus.google.com/u/0/115049428938715274412/posts/cYtVT2pb9ZT
Well of course we would need to get the kernel integrated into it but yeah i think we could get it to work. I think it'd be amazing
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Me too get on it guys a duel boot would be awesome as well .
jutley said:
Me too get on it guys a duel boot would be awesome as well .
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+1
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+1
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i use a kindle fire hd, but that isnt inportant, +1
persano said:
i use a kindle fire hd, but that isnt inportant, +1
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Lol.
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Me too get on it guys a duel boot would be awesome as well .
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I think the dual boot might be an issue as you would run out of space on the device. Must agree that Ubuntu tablet looks very cool and makes JB look slightly dated =-O
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Looks like it will be possible after all. I'm quite excited to see what happens, please post updates here if you hear of any. I'd like to trial this ASAP.
Actually, I came to this forum after taking a long break from modding specifically to see if anyone had taken a look at the tablet version of Ubuntu along with the Ubuntu phone code released a few days ago. I'm in the process of setting up a machine as my modding environment right now so I can poke around a bit with both as soon as I manage to locate a copy of the tablet os.
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting
I dont have time to mess with it now but this is awesome
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting
I dont have time to mess with it now but this is awesome
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Holy crap. This is VERY possible. Canonical uses CM10 as their base for Android, so in theory any dual core device capable of running CM10 can run Ubuntu Touch Preview without much trouble. Tomorrow night, I'll give it a try and see if I can build it using their instructions and your CM-based rom (which is what I am already running on my KF2 anyway)
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Holy crap. This is VERY possible. Canonical uses CM10 as their base for Android, so in theory any dual core device capable of running CM10 can run Ubuntu Touch Preview without much trouble. Tomorrow night, I'll give it a try and see if I can build it using their instructions and your CM-based rom (which is what I am already running on my KF2 anyway)
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Yay!
I'm pretty sure hashcode or somebody has a kindle fire 1 project going too
Edit: quick cyberstalk confirms
https://mobile.twitter.com/Hashcode0f/status/304876191809150976
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Holy crap. This is VERY possible. Canonical uses CM10 as their base for Android, so in theory any dual core device capable of running CM10 can run Ubuntu Touch Preview without much trouble. Tomorrow night, I'll give it a try and see if I can build it using their instructions and your CM-based rom (which is what I am already running on my KF2 anyway)
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Nice, can't wait to see the results. Don't even care if it's sluggish and nothing works, still pure awesomeness.
Not to be rude....but this IS the development section, and you asked a question
I legitimately believed that you were posting "Ubuntu for tablets" and not a question about it.
I'm not mad at you, like any other wrong post I wouldn't comment on, this just REALLY got my hopes up then I was just like "oh, I guess I'll wait then "
Can't wait to see it soon thought hopefully. Looks like it will be fairly easy to do.
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Not to be rude....but this IS the development section, and you asked a question
I legitimately believed that you were posting "Ubuntu for tablets" and not a question about it.
I'm not mad at you, like any other wrong post I wouldn't comment on, this just REALLY got my hopes up then I was just like "oh, I guess I'll wait then "
Can't wait to see it soon thought hopefully. Looks like it will be fairly easy to do.
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Agree but honestly this is the best WRONG SECTION post by far. Lol
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Not to be rude....but this IS the development section, and you asked a question
I legitimately believed that you were posting "Ubuntu for tablets" and not a question about it.
I'm not mad at you, like any other wrong post I wouldn't comment on, this just REALLY got my hopes up then I was just like "oh, I guess I'll wait then "
Can't wait to see it soon thought hopefully. Looks like it will be fairly easy to do.
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Haha my bad I guess :/
I actually did notice the box 'are you asking a question' but I felt it sort of needed to be posted here anyways since people who'd normally frequent this part of the forums may not venture into the Q&A section and I wanted their input.
Help Please I Beg of you please please!!!
So some couple of days ago i decided to buy my little heavy weight Kindle Fire running 10.2.6
So with great excitement i took my laptop in order to root my Kindle.......... I have tried more than 6!! Different methodes
but to every single one of them the very very same response ''permission denied" again ''permission denied''
It gets so irritating and fruastrating and i am on my knees to anyone who can help me solve this
If Possible is there a way i can downgrade my firm to 6.3.2? at least i would be able to now then root my tablet
Any Absolutley any help would be very very appriciated!!
lucexpress said:
Help Please I Beg of you please please!!!
So some couple of days ago i decided to buy my little heavy weight Kindle Fire running 10.2.6
So with great excitement i took my laptop in order to root my Kindle.......... I have tried more than 6!! Different methodes
but to every single one of them the very very same response ''permission denied" again ''permission denied''
It gets so irritating and fruastrating and i am on my knees to anyone who can help me solve this
If Possible is there a way i can downgrade my firm to 6.3.2? at least i would be able to now then root my tablet
Any Absolutley any help would be very very appriciated!!
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I highly doubt you can downgrade to 6.3.2 from 10.2.6 unless someone had a weird idea of porting the 6.3.2 firmware to the 2nd gen. Although the 1st and 2nd gens have "somewhat" similar specs, they are different.
I'm not a developer, but I've rooted 2 KFs in the past several weeks. According to this sticky which I've read and is titled "**WARNING** You will BRICK YOUR KINDLE if you don't READ THIS FIRST!!!", the roots are designed for the first generation KFs only. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1928866
So you mean it's impossible to root my Kindle? But I hope the XDA dev team will come up with a solution to this cause my friend has a rooted Kindle using Cyanogen Mod 9 and I may say with the 1 gb and 1.2 Ghz Processer it's as the Google nexus 7
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So you mean it's impossible to root my Kindle? But I hope the XDA dev team will come up with a solution to this cause my friend has a rooted Kindle using Cyanogen Mod 9 and I may say with the 1 gb and 1.2 Ghz Processer it's as the Google nexus 7
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It is not impossible to root your 2nd gen. Kindle Fire. But, if you try to root your 2nd gen Kindle Fire using the methods made for the 1st gen. Kindle Fire, you will brick your device, probably permanently.
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So you mean it's impossible to root my Kindle?
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Go here to root your kindle.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2106463
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Just because I am a Senior Member doesn't mean anything.
I do not count myself as higher than anybody else.
GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!!! SOLUTION SOLUTIONS FOUND!!! There is a simple rooting so pretty yet it works like a hot mama. I got it from here forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2075959 and the tip is follow EXACTLY!! What is says.. thanks to it I'm now rolling with Miui as Beautiful as my Kindle can be ask if you encounter any issues ( when rooting never mind the way your kindle will be acting up its a procedure to disable the security and when done manually instal Superuser.apk ) Remember follow the steps and ignore all the errors ok
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Hi guys,
I have got my hands on a Kindle but I'm not sure what version I have. I've read a few posts ans guides and apparently you can tell the version by its software version.
It has a version labeled 6.3.1_user_407920, am I right assuming it is a first generation Kindle Fire?
If that's the case, what is worth as of this days? $100? $125?
Thanks in advance for the help!
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Hi guys,
I have got my hands on a Kindle but I'm not sure what version I have. I've read a few posts ans guides and apparently you can tell the version by its software version.
It has a version labeled 6.3.1_user_407920, am I right assuming it is a first generation Kindle Fire?
If that's the case, what is worth as of this days? $100? $125?
Thanks in advance for the help!
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that would in fact be the first generation one.
as for worth, i would say it would be around there. i have heard $100 mainly
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that would in fact be the first generation one.
as for worth, i would say it would be around there. i have heard $100 mainly
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Thanks a lot for the confirmation!
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Thanks for taking a look at my question. Yep im a noob and thoroughly enjoyed the noob welcome video. Though i feel prepaired for any backlash this question may bring as a result of my noobery, I did search the forums and really just want to confirm what i believe to be is the grim truth.
I read this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228532
so because I have a second generation kindle I can't root it and remove the adds or do any cool stuff? Is that about the long and short of it?
kindle fire hd 8.9
system version 8.4.6
I think you should be able to root it and if not you will be able to in the coming weeks, they rooted the hdx and I thought the second generation 7"HD model, so I would assume it should be available for the 8.9" model very shortly.
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I think you should be able to root it and if not you will be able to in the coming weeks, they rooted the hdx and I thought the second generation 7"HD model, so I would assume it should be available for the 8.9" model very shortly.
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thanks for the info. Ill wait till a more safe and easy method is out
Do you have an HD or HDX? If it's the HD with 8.4.6 then it's rootable and flash able now. Did it to my wife's 8.9 a few weeks ago.
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RedsonRising said:
Do you have an HD or HDX? If it's the HD with 8.4.6 then it's rootable and flash able now. Did it to my wife's 8.9 a few weeks ago.
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i have a fire hd 8.9 , bu im just worried about bricking it. I figured safer and more simply methods may come out for a noob lik me
Took me a while and a lot of reading of the threads here before I took the plunge. Better to wait until comfortable then taking the plunge when not ready and making a mistake.
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garlicxda said:
i have a fire hd 8.9 , bu im just worried about bricking it. I figured safer and more simply methods may come out for a noob lik me
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277105
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128175
LinearEquation said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277105
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2128175
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thank you very much LinearEquation. This is a lot to take in, at least it feels that way, I will dive right in.