How to Root Kindle Fire on Mac

With most guides, tutorials and one-click root/unroot tools being available for Windows, it is good to see a detailed step-by-step guide written specifically for Mac users. And that is exactly what XDA member northmendo has done; we have here a step-by-step guide of how to root the Kindle fire on a Mac. Off course, you need to have adb (Android Debug Bridge) set up on your Mac, and by following these steps, you can liberate your Kindle Fire from the confinement of the stock OS and unlock all of those amazing abilities that you can only get with a rooted Android device.

DISCLAIMER: The steps and methods included in this guide are considered risky. Please do not attempt to try this unless you know exactly what you are doing, as it may render your device unusable, and your pocket lighter by the amount it takes to replace it. You have been forewarned!!!

Steps to Root the Kindle Fire on Mac (quoted from the developers thread)

1. First make sure you have the android sdk set up. Download it here.
2. Put the “android-sdk” folder in your home folder.
3. Update the sdk In the terminal do the following without the quotes “open ~/android-sdk/tools/android”
4. Download and run this script to set up the sdk
5. Download and run this script to copy the usb.ini file nessisary for it to work with the Kindle Fire.
6. Download and install BurritoRoot on the kindle fire. Make sure in settings on the kindle in the device section that you have “Allow Installation of Applications” is on. You can Download BurritoRoot Here
7. Run the BurritoRoot app on the Kindle Fire
8. Click root
9. Download su Here
10. Unzip superuser and put the su file and the Superuser.apk on your desktop
11. Open up a terminal, and Run these adb commands, one at a time!!!

• adb root
• adb remount
• adb push ~/Desktop/su /system/xbin/su
• adb shell chown 0.0 /system/xbin/su
• adb shell chmod 06755 /system/xbin/su
• adb install ~/Desktop/Superuser.apk
• adb reboot

That should be it. Enjoy your rooted Kindle Fire!!

You can visit the original development thread HERE, to read user experiences with this method. If you have any thoughts or comments, do feel free to use the comments box below:

 via XDA

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You had to see this coming and many of you have actually been waiting for this moment. Android’s first successful “budget” tablet — the Kindle Fire — has finally gotten its taste of Ice Cream Sandwich thanks to the tireless Android modding community who dropped a pre-alpha AOSP ROM for the device early today.

Just how pre-alpha is this build you ask? Liliputing provided a video of Kindle Fire running ICS and I’d have to say, it doesn’t look too shabby. While still very much a work-in-progress, the processor seems to handle the ROM quite smoothly with most of the kinks coming form the software side of things where audio and video functionality are currently broken. Developers did manage to find a fix for the SD card storage problem they were having where the device wouldn’t recognize internal storage. Progress seems to be moving along nicely.

Special thanks to JackpotClavin for getting the pre-alpha ROM up and running. For the adventurous or extremely curious, you can hit up the XDA source link for all the downloads and Liliputing put together a handy quick guide for getting it up and running on your rooted Kindle Fire. If you guys decide to give it a try, check back in here and let us know how it went.

[XDA via Liliputing]

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How To Gain Root ADB Access With Insecure Boot Image For Kindle Fire

The core appeal of an insecure boot image for an Android device, is its life jacket like role for a device that is otherwise irrecoverable. An insecure bootimage gives you a degree of recoverability at the very earliest stage of the device boot process, even if the /system partition on your device has been messed up. With an insecure boot image, you stand a chance and connecting your device via ADB to a computer and sort things out to try and recover the device. The Kindle Fire however, was missing an insecure boot image, but not anymore thanks to XDA-Developers forum member paulobrien. More on this after the break.

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[How To] Easily Root Kindle Fire On 6.2.1 Firmware

If you have recently updated your Kindle Fire to the latest 6.2.1 firmware and felt hopeless with no signs of rooting method – well there was one, but that involved opening up the device, literally – no need to despair anymore. From Justin Case of TeamAndIRC , comes, the only software root available for the 6.2.1 firmware on the Kindle Fire. Named BurritoRoot, the app is to be run on your PC followed by a few manual ADB commands and you’ll be good to go.

The rooting procedure currently supports all known firmware versions, with the exception of v6.0. So lets get straight to business shall we.

Disclaimer: Please follow this guide at your own risk. Androidedz will not be liable if your device gets damaged or bricked during the process.

Requirements:

• Kindle Fire running the latest 6.2.1 firmware.
• ADB installed on your system. 
• BurritoRoot apk.
• Superuser zip.

Instructions:

1. To begin, download  the root app and superuser package.
2. Copy the root app to your Kindle Fire and install it.
3. Extract the superuser package.
4. On the Kindle Fire, run the BurritoRoot app and hit the Root button.
5. Connect the device to the computer and run command prompt or terminal.
6. Within the terminal or command prompt, navigate to the location of the extracted superuser files.
7. Enter the following commands:

adb root

adb remount

adb push su /system/xbin/su

adb shell chown 0.0 /system/xbin/su

adb shell chmod 06755 /system/xbin/su

adb install superuser.apk

adb reboot

For updates and queries, head over to the forum thread at RootzWiki.

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