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What can I do with a rooted Kindle Fire?

Hey everyone, can someone tell me what can I do with a rooted kindle fire? I know you can install cynanogen but what does that do?
I'm planning on getting one for christmas and want to know a few things before buying it.
I've never rooted anytihng before but I've modded xbox, wii, ds, psp, iphones, etc.
Sorry if this is the wrong forum section to ask this.

Why open an extra thread when this topic is already here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1374797
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Rooted Fires impress the ladies
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Thanks you need to root to get the Android Market
Another q, can the kindle fire connect to Ad Hoc networks?

The Fire doesn't support ad-hoc networks natively, but there's a workaround here.

thanks.........

I'm considering rooting my Kindle Fire, but am still unsure. Doesn't rooting it void your warranty? I'd hate to have something happen to it and then be stuck with an unusable KF that I can't even return. What are your guys' thoughts on it?

Patience
Basically, a rooted kindle will allow side-loading of apps, outside of Amazon's built in app store. Their app store will not list apps like Netflix because Amazon is hoping most users will utilize their streaming service and provide an additional income stream (that's why the kindle is so inexpensive).
Everyone is waiting for a fully functional CyanogenMod7 or Ice Cream Sandwich custom ROM to be released. Until that happens, I have rooted my kindle, copied the apk files of select apps from my Android phone and side-loaded them to my kindle.
I have found the kindle the runs almost everything I want and allows me to be patient for the upcoming ROM releases.

Same thing as other rooted Android Devices.
Run custom ROMs and such.

ToxicCosmos said:
I'm considering rooting my Kindle Fire, but am still unsure. Doesn't rooting it void your warranty? I'd hate to have something happen to it and then be stuck with an unusable KF that I can't even return. What are your guys' thoughts on it?
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Taking a quick look at the warranty on Amazon.com, I don't see anything about your warranty being void if you you root or modify your Kindle. That said, the warranty won't be valid if you break your Kindle by rooting in.
If you need to send it in for repairs, you can always flash a stock rom. If it's too broken to be flashed, it's probably too broken for Amazon to tell that you rooted it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1378063

asb2164 said:
Rooted Fires impress the ladies
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Right! With your manly geekiness!
(My wife is impressed that I'm innocent enough to have so much fun hacking the thing).
- Ed

rooted fire, wht esle?
Two weeks ago I rooted my kindle fire. I was about to throw it away because I hated the interface etc.
Stumbled on to the xda site than god.
Am now running jellybean 4.1.1. Amazing and now I can't put this thing down.
What else will this device do? What other ROMs are available? How do you stay on top of upgrades?

At some point you have to stop and it hard to do
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rbeavers said:
At some point you have to stop and it hard to do
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What? Stop? Nope. Never. A ROM a week and should my wife turn her back on her Fire for even a fraction of a second, it gets it, too!
Sent from my Jandycaned Kindle Fire.

yuidaoren said:
...should my wife turn her back on her Fire for even a fraction of a second, it gets it, too!
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Been there, done that. She was seriously pissed for about three days...then she knew I was right.

Will just rooting my Kindle Fire prevent from blacklisting?

So I just got my friends Kindle Fire but he said it might get blacklisted in a while. (For some reason I don't know)
But will just rooting my Kindle Fire prevent from blacklisting, or do I also have to install a different ROM?

Amazon only blacklists Kindles that were reported lost/stolen or fraudulently purchased...
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Depends what he means i guess. They do check if your kindle is rooted and prevent you from watching movies while you're rooted but you can get around that easily by removing the root checker or temp unrooting. If he actually means blacklisted like what the second poster mentioned I'd question whether he stole it or something.

Evo_Shift said:
Depends what he means i guess. They do check if your kindle is rooted and prevent you from watching movies while you're rooted but you can get around that easily by removing the root checker or temp unrooting. If he actually means blacklisted like what the second poster mentioned I'd question whether he stole it or something.
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Oh okay, so just removing the root checker will do it? I don't need to install any ROM's or anything?
And I'll have to ask him some time... I'm not sure how he got it.

Once the Kindle is blacklisted by Amazon the Kindle serial number will not register on an Amazon account so you wont be able to use Prime or AIV, Kindle app or Market. Install CM7 or CM9 on it and you'll have no problems.

Kindle fire won't register

Yes, this is another sob story about how I so naively purchased a kindle fire from some guy on craigslist. Before you all ridicule me about morals and ethics you should know that I have spent the past 4 days on the phone with amazon and the state police in which I made every effort to return this stolen/lost kindle to it's rightful owner. To make a very long story short, Amazon won't take the kindle back or provide me with a way to return the kindle and the police say there is nothing they can do. So now I am stuck with this blacklisted kindle fire and being the nerd that I am I couldn't help but try to crack this cookie. So here's where I'm at...
I'm attempting the sign in on my amazon account but of course i'm unable because the serial number to my kindle is blacklisted. I have have successfully rooted the kindle and currently have Gr9.2 modaco Rom installed hoping that would somehow bypass my problem but no such luck. I've looked in to altering my serial number but haven't had much luck with that either nor am I sure it's even possible? I'm just about ready to throw in the towel on this so any advice or ideas would be appreciated.

MoJoeee42 said:
Yes, this is another sob story about how I so naively purchased a kindle fire from some guy on craigslist. Before you all ridicule me about morals and ethics you should know that I have spent the past 4 days on the phone with amazon and the state police in which I made every effort to return this stolen/lost kindle to it's rightful owner. To make a very long story short, Amazon won't take the kindle back or provide me with a way to return the kindle and the police say there is nothing they can do. So now I am stuck with this blacklisted kindle fire and being the nerd that I am I couldn't help but try to crack this cookie. So here's where I'm at...
I'm attempting the sign in on my amazon account but of course i'm unable because the serial number to my kindle is blacklisted. I have have successfully rooted the kindle and currently have Gr9.2 modaco Rom installed hoping that would somehow bypass my problem but no such luck. I've looked in to altering my serial number but haven't had much luck with that either nor am I sure it's even possible? I'm just about ready to throw in the towel on this so any advice or ideas would be appreciated.
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Sorry, I feel so bad for you.

Josepho1997 said:
Install an ICS or Jellybean ROM.
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First of all, thank you for the advice.
I see that you are running both jelly bean and modaco. What are the advantages of that? What I am really trying to achieve here is keeping the look of the stock kindle fire GUI and somehow gaining the functionality of a non-blacklisted kindle. Will installing either of those ROMs achieve this?

Josepho1997 said:
Did you get it to work?
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Yup I think I have it set up as good as it's going to get. I installed Jelly Bean 4.1.1 aka project Jandycane by lithium76 as my ROM and then found a very helpful post by tyriekgo. He basically has a set of kindle fire apk's including the amazon launcher. I put all the apk's on my kindle and using a file manager from the android market ( I used astro file manager ) I installed them all. Now when I push the home key on my kindle I am asked if I want to use Jelly Bean or kindle fire. You can access the amazon store and purchase books and apps but the videos still don't work. I'm sure somebody will figure out a way around this soon enough. I have attached the links to both posts that I used to do everything I mentioned. If you follow the directions on those posts you should have no problems. If anyone needs more help with this just ask. I am very happy with the way it turned out, it's ALMOST like my kindle isn't blacklisted anymore.
For the Jelly Bean ROM I used visit...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766829
And for the set of kindle apk's visit...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1596706

First post plz be gentle :)

Hey folks,
I have a KF2 non hd and i am a bit of a noob tbh, i side load apps all the time and apart from that the kf2 is totally standard, i want to see if i can make it more like my HTC ONE, so as i understand it i will have to root it and thats all i know.
Can you good folks advise me on what i can do please
Cheers
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fordy0508 said:
Hey folks,
I have a KF2 non hd and i am a bit of a noob tbh, i side load apps all the time and apart from that the kf2 is totally standard, i want to see if i can make it more like my HTC ONE, so as i understand it i will have to root it and thats all i know.
Can you good folks advise me on what i can do please
Cheers
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The HTC One is likely running an OEM version of Andriod called Sense, of which (iirc) the source hasn't been released, so you won't find it for the KF. However, there are plenty of other ROMs available that may suit your needs. Before we get into that, though, I must strongly suggest you get a factory cable before attempting anything, as it will help you in case things don't go according to plan (they rarely do). After that, there is a thread at the top of this forum that serves as a FAQ, and can be used as a guideline for pointing you in the right direction regarding what steps must be taken to get you where you want to be.
Good luck

Ok thanks for the reply, but whats a factory cable? NOOb question alert
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Its also known as a fastboot cable, they are very useful when your kindle gets a red screen of death, or you get stuck in a boot loop without any means of recovery because you can plug the cable in and it immediately boots up and goes into fastboot so you can reflash the system image from there and such.
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Will it ever be possible to root Fire Tv Stick generation 1 and 2

Title Says it all.

What version are you talking about? I rooted my Fire TV Stick half a year ago.
Check http://www.aftvnews.com/start/ to see if you can root your version. If you have the latest one, it's not possible at the moment.

Not searching or even bothering to read anything says it all.

ldeveraux said:
Not searching or even bothering to read anything says it all.
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No, I have looked before, just wanted to see if XDA has anything.