[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desired user name:
I'd like ti make things a bit easier to understand for tablet noobs like myself

Firstly I want to thank patriciogac and chucklesrock` because without your post I would still have a next8p12 tablet that was pretty much useless.

However if it's cool with everyone I'd like ti make things a bit easier to understand for tablet noobs like myself. As it took me about 5 hours to get my tablet rooted and that's because I was confused about a few things....

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1. The patch that patriciogac so awesomely got from 'those Italian geniuses' when unzipped will still contain a zip file.

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It's called 'Patch.zip'

Which I thought all the files needed to be unzipped, not so.. root.zip does not... So on your sdcard you should have these 4 files. JTK:They have 4 gig sdcards at wally world for 7 bucks...

factory_update_param.aml

root.zip

u-boot-aml-ucl.bin

uImage_recovery

2. When you power up the tablet you should have the sdcard already in it with the 4 files on it. I had to hold the power button for a 4 count before I held the volume down button while still holding the power button. To get into the 'upgrading....please wait'/ recovery mode. You will not see any progress or indication that it took the root until the tablet restarts on it's own and goes into some updating dialog. The only thing you will see is 'upgrading....please wait' then the screen will go black. If it doesn't reboot on it's own after a couple of minuets (2) then start over as it did not take the root. Mine did not take the first dozen or so tries. It wasn't until I plugged in the USB wire attached to my computer and repeated the steps that it took the root on the first try. Not sure what difference it made to have the USB wire attached but like I said it took the root, first try. Also I had the volume DOWN button pressed when doing this as I never could get into upgrading....please wait'/ recovery mode with the volume UP button pressed.

3. chucklesrock`suggestion to google 'How to get the Google Play store on the Kindle Fire HD' was spot on. JTK: The site the guide is on is cnet-uk

Now some of the steps in the guide were skipped as I could not locate what it was referring to on my tablet or it didn't apply to my tablet. Remember this is a guide for a specific (kindle) phone not our Chinese tablets...

Skipped:

1. ('On' in the Settings -- 'Allow Installation of Applications' (on the Device screen) and 'Enable ADB' (on the Security screen).) Again this is a guide for a specific (kindle) phone not our Chinese tablets... so some things will be different. The reboots were very important as my tablet did NOT activate the two-step verification on my Google Account until I did so. When it did I was then able to update to the latest version of the play store/market with the file indicated in the guide.

2. Connect your Kindle Fire HD to your computer and it should appear as two separate entries in the Device Manager section of Control Panel. This really served no purpose with my tablet. I knew it was recognized by my computer as it gave me a audio sound like it does when I plug in ANY USB device... Did not matter that mine only showed up as 1 device in the Control Panel.

noticeable differences since the root/play store:

I'm able to see all the pictures in the play store.

My internet load time has increased as well...

Overall faster loading apps/switching apps

Battery life still suxs but thats another thread I suppose...

Again thanks to patriciogac and chucklesrock for helping us get these cheap Chinese tablets useful for something other then a paper weight.

JTK mine was a gift as I would never purchase such a hunk of @$^%, but after rooting and the addition of G-market I'm actually somewhat impressed..

I'm a i-device kinda guy....

I will keep a eye on this thread in case anyone needs any help... for a while at least.......

Thanks!