<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">"read the paper while"</span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">What is this" paper" you speak of? </span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 13, 2017 11:53 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>$40 Amazon Kindle Fire, rooted and running Nexus Android 5.1.1 ( kernel version 3.10.54+).<br><br></div>Took me about half a day. Steps:<br><br></div> * Downgrade Kindle OS from 5.3.2.0 to 5.3.1.0 <br></div> ( 5.3.2.0 is not rootable, the latest & greatest 5.3.2.1 is not downgradable. 5.3.1.0 is vulnerable to KingRoot) <br></div> Place device in recovery mode by holding down volume down key, select side-load mode, use ADB to side-load older OS, reboot)<br></div> * Use RootJunky.com's excellent AmazonFire5thGenSuperTool ( <a href="http://www.rootjunky.com/amazon-fire-5th-gen-supertool/" target="_blank">http://www.rootjunky.com/<wbr>amazon-fire-5th-gen-supertool/</a> ) to:<br> * Root phone with KingRoot<br></div> Load KingRoot on phone with ADB, bang on it repeatedly until it starts correctly and grants root permissions -- this was about 3 hours of repeatedly running the program and rebooting until it 'caught'. I read the paper while restarting the program over and over.<br></div> * Install SuperSU after rooting phone<br></div> * Install Amazon Play Store<br></div> * Use Amazon Play Store to install the latest version of FlashFire (the one in the SuperTool is a couple of versions out of date)<br></div> * Find the Nexus Amazon Fire ROM ( courtesy of ggow on XDA-Developers ( <a href="https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/orig-development/rom-fire-nexus-rom-lmy49f-t3300714" target="_blank">https://forum.xda-developers.<wbr>com/amazon-fire/orig-<wbr>development/rom-fire-nexus-<wbr>rom-lmy49f-t3300714</a> )<br></div> * Install the Nov 2016 version of this ROM with FlashFire (the newest one appears corrupt). After adding a camera app, a gallery app, the Dolphin browser, and the DuckDuckGo app, I currently have just over 5 gb of storage free on an 8 gb device.<br><br></div>All this just to gain control of my Own Device. Amazon's Android build as shipped forces advertisements to the lock screen, locks you out of basic functionality until you register with Amazon, and won't let you change the home page on your browser. Of course, it also won't allow you to delete the plethora of Amazon bloatware shipped with the device. It also will auto-update to the latest (non-rootable, non-downgradeable) build when it gains a network connection and thinks you're not looking. You cannot change this behavior unless you have already rooted the device.<br><br></div><div>OTOH, for $40 or so it is a right nice piece of hardware, once you have wrested control from those who would exploit you. So it Goes.<br><br></div>-- CHS<br></div> <br></div>
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