<html><head></head><body><div>On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 16:18 -0500, Byron Jeff wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 03:00:32PM -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
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"read the paper while"
What is this" paper" you speak of?
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Um, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution or the like?
</pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Also called "The Atlanta Urinal-Constipation"</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>That's what folks used to do before the Internet invaded our lives.
BAJ
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On Feb 13, 2017 11:53 AM, "Charles Shapiro"
<[1]<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
$40 Amazon Kindle Fire, rooted and running Nexus Android 5.1.1 ( kernel
version 3.10.54+).
Took me about half a day. Steps:
* Downgrade Kindle OS from 5.3.2.0 to 5.3.1.0
( 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)
Place device in recovery mode by holding down volume down
key, select side-load mode, use ADB to side-load older OS, reboot)
* Use RootJunky.com's excellent AmazonFire5thGenSuperTool (
[2]<a href="http://www.rootjunky.com/amazon-fire-5th-gen-supertool/">http://www.rootjunky.com/amazon-fire-5th-gen-supertool/</a> ) to:
* Root phone with KingRoot
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.
* Install SuperSU after rooting phone
* Install Amazon Play Store
* Use Amazon Play Store to install the latest version of FlashFire
(the one in the SuperTool is a couple of versions out of date)
* Find the Nexus Amazon Fire ROM ( courtesy of ggow on
XDA-Developers ( [3]<a href="https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/orig">https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/orig</a>-
development/rom-fire-nexus-rom-lmy49f-t3300714 )
* 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.
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.
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.
-- CHS
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2. <a href="http://www.rootjunky.com/amazon-fire-5th-gen-supertool/">http://www.rootjunky.com/amazon-fire-5th-gen-supertool/</a>
3. <a href="https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/orig-development/rom-fire-nexus-rom-lmy49f-t3300714">https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/orig-development/rom-fire-nexus-rom-lmy49f-t3300714</a>
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</pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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