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

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 13:36:42 EST 2019


You say that like it's a bad thing

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 1:25 PM Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

>
> And of course it lacks a GPS chip.
>
>
> On 2019-03-05 11:14, Charles Shapiro via Ale wrote:
> > 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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