[ale] SW root for Amazon Fire 8HD gen-7 possible

[Charles Shapiro]

Hmm. There's a lot of discussion on that page, but I think this (
https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8-hd10/orig-development/experimental-software-root-hd-8-hd-10-t3904595
) is the URL you really need.

This is great news.  The Amazon Fire tablet is wonderful hardware, and it's
really cheap -- like, $50 list and often discounted.  I rooted my 5th gen
Amazon tablet ( KFFOWI, the 7" model) after some struggle. After rooting, I
installed the Fire Nexus ROM (
https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/orig-development/rom-fire-nexus-rom-lmy49f-t3300714
) and got out from under Amazon's draconian rule.  At the time there was no
way to change out the bootloader itself, so when the machine boots I still
get the amazon logo.  After that I'm free though.  It's a great little
device for lying on the couch surfing the web.  I could use my phone for
that, but the tablet's 7" screen is much more comfortable.

Alas, if I'm reading the threads right it looks like the newer Amazon
bootloaders  are locked (they do a checksum on the OS ), and so far there
doesn't seem to be a working unlocked substitute. So you get root, but you
can't replace Amazon's OS yet.  OTOH,  with root that should be coming
shortly.

<< obligatory discussion of why the laws that force you to run exploits
against your own devices are idiotic and disgraceful tactfully removed >>

-- CHS

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 6:10 PM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Stolen from pi-hole project information.  It is worth manually updating
> from time to time.
>
> Only needed on portable devices, IMHO. This assumes you have a local DNS
> with blocking enabled ... er ... like a pi-hole.
>
>
> On 3/4/19 5:02 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Aaaaaand...
> >
> > That 131K line anti-tracking hosts file is published.....
> >
> > On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 15:12 -0500, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> >> Seems someone found a software root last week, 26th, for the 2017 Amazon
> >> Fire 8HD tablets, finally! It provides a temporary root with SELinux
> >> disabled.
> >>
> >> It is 3-5 commands, depending on your existing developer options. In
> >> short, freakin' easy.
> >>
> >>
> https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8-hd10/general/discussion-root-progress-fire-hd-8-t3743024/page104
> >>
> >>
> >> Tested it. Working here.  YMMV. Be careful and don't brick yours.
> >>
> >> All I've done so far is replace the 1 line /etc/hosts with my 131K line
> >> anti-tracking variant. Verified that the worst tracking sites weren't
> >> available, then rebooted the tablet and verified they still weren't
> >> available.
> >>
> >> I may want to install a real firewall and busybox shortly, but haven't
> >> at this point.
> >> I did not install SuperSU.
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