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Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Rooted

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @04:48AM from the meddling-kids! dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday, XDA Developers forum users kinfaus and pokey9000 were discussing how the latest devices from Amazon (the second-generation 7 Kindle Fire and the 7 Kindle Fire HD) come with more sophisticated protection than their predecessors, including locked bootloaders and 'high security' features offered by their OMAP processors. Today, the devices have been rooted." Using a known bug in busybox dating to April even.

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Re:The missing feature by jittles · 2012-09-19 05:42 · Score: 3, Informative

You don't have to turn to third parties to unlock the Nexus 7. You do "fastboot oem unlock" and away you go. You can do whatever you want at that point.