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Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Rooted

Posted by Unknown on 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.

2 of 62 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The missing feature by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it just got a lot LESS attractive. Rooted with locked bootloader = meh.

    I got the Kindle Fire because it had an unlocked bootloader. Locked bootloader = no-go for me. Nexus 7 all the way!

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    retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
  2. Re:The missing feature by Bigby · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because then the customer can blame Google when something goes wrong with it.