If KingRoot supports your version of Fire OS, feel free to disregard this. Unless you’ve done physical damage to your hardware, very rarely is a bricked device beyond fixing using only software.

It worked for me and others using the 5th generation hardware. As previously mentioned, everything in this tutorial is use at your own risk. UPDATE : Some users in the comments have pointed out that the latest generation of Kindle Fire hardware and firmware may not be compatible with this tutorial. If KingRoot doesn’t support Fire OS 5.12.1 or higher at the time of reading this, you’ll need to downgrade your Kindle Fire firmware. The root tool I used was called KingRoot and was installed as part of SuperTool. The tablet came with Fire OS 5.12.1 which, as of May 2016, was incompatible with the existing root tools. When I purchased it, the tablet was $40.00 and it was the 5th generation of it. My Kindle Fire is the edition with advertisements. Let me first start by sharing the equipment and software I used: I’m happy to help you troubleshoot in the comments should this event happen. These are the things I did to turn my $40.00 disappointing Kindle Fire tablet into something comparable to the $200.00 tablets in circulation.īefore proceeding, please be aware that if you mess up your Kindle Fire device, I am not responsible for it. This lead me down the path of wanting to root the tablet and install a custom ROM to it. This rendered the Kindle Fire tablet rather useless to me. The problem is that my Prime subscription was part of a household account, which has fine print that says I can only stream, not download. I purchased one of these $40.00 tablets and a large micro SD card with the intention of downloading a bunch of movies as part of my Prime subscription. I heard Amazon Prime members can download movies for free and I saw that Amazon Kindle Fire tablets were only $40.00 with an expandable SD card slot. The problem with this is my iPad doesn’t have a lot of storage space and can’t keep me entertained on a six or more hour flight.

Up until now I’ve been using my iPad for watching the few movies I purchased from Google Play because Google Play lets you watch offline. I am always on a plane without internet and not much to do.

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