Yesterday, we told you that Amazon's newest Kindles are shipping with locked bootloaders. We mentioned that this probably wouldn't prevent the devices from being rooted, as a method was already in the works. That method has now been confirmed, and root for the Kindle Fire HD is go!
First off, this exploit is actually based one that was found on the Transformer Prime in ICS by sparkym3, so full credit goes to him.
Before you get started, you need to download SU:
After you download the file, extract the contents and pull SU from /system/bin/ and SuperUser.apk from /system/app/ and put them in the directory you'll be working from.
After that, execute the following comm ands:
adb shell
rm -r /data/local/tmp
ln -s /data/ /data/local/tmp
exitadb reboot
adb shell
echo 'ro.kernel.qemu=1' > /data/local.prop
exitabd reboot
adb shell mount -o remount,rw /system
adb push su /system/xbin/su
adb shell
chown 0.0 /system/xbin/su
chmod 06755 /system/xbin/su
rm /data/local.prop
exitadb reboot
adb install Superuser.apk
After that, you should have root access. Congratulations!
If you happen to hit any snags along the way, head over to this support thread on RootzWiki.
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