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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.

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  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:I wouldn't have been able to post first .... by Radak · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...which, apparently, it hasn't.

  3. Re:The missing feature by Bigby · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

  4. Kindle fire is dead to me by Charliemopps · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I litterally just bought a Nexus 7 about an hour ago. My main concerns? No expandable memory and the forced ads on the Kindle. Yes, maybe I could have waited for this root to come out so I could get rid of the adds, but do I really want to deal with that?

    As far as the lack of a memory slot, that only bothers me because I'd like to take movies on vacation with me... But then I learned I could connect the Nexus 7 to an external hardrive via USB on the go and viola.

    Sorry amazon, forcing me to watch ads is not a way to get me to buy your product.