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[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Jayj0ka:
I fully a agree with you, so far I have only been following the Kindle 7 HD thread, but if others are helpful as Prokennexusa then this Forum is the best I have been on. Honestly due to the support it makes my stock iPhone 5 a piece of hot shiz I no longer want lol Big thanks to you Prokennexusa you are awesome with your support.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Follow Up

Jonathanw188,

Great job! I am glad you were able to get it working. Please let us know if we can

help you out on any of the other steps or on another Tablet. We are here to support

you through the entire process. Take care.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] WarbornWrath:
Infuriating problem

This is my first time rooting a device, I have tried everything in terms of getting new drivers, I have tried restarting my kindle, and my computer. I have followed every instruction thus far. My problem lies in the detection of my device in the command prompt. I change the directory for the folder containing bin4ry's files. Then I do the dir command, but when I type in stuff\adb devices, it shows

C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\Users\nick\Desktop\New folder\Hacks

C:\Users\nick\Desktop\New folder\Hacks>dir

Volume in drive C has no label.

Volume Serial Number is B8FC-A10B

Directory of C:\Users\nick\Desktop\New folder\Hacks

12/31/2012 12:04 AM <DIR> .

12/31/2012 12:04 AM <DIR> ..

12/18/2012 01:15 PM 10,396 RunMe.bat

12/18/2012 01:14 PM 11,746 RunMe.sh

11/16/2012 12:05 PM <DIR> stuff

2 File(s) 22,142 bytes

3 Dir(s) 226,663,354,368 bytes free

C:\Users\nick\Desktop\New folder\Hacks>stuff\adb devices

List of devices attached

C:\Users\nick\Desktop\New folder\Hacks>

It doesn't show that any devices are attached, I am afraid to even consider proceeding. It just makes me angry because I have looked at so many forums and sites, downloaded so many files, and all I have accomplished is having device manager properly recognize it. If this is the way it should look let me know, if not help would be much appreciated, thank you for your time. I hope to hear back soon.

I forgot to add that I the device is a kindle fire HD 8.9 in. if that helps in any way
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] DVDYETI:
Quote:

Originally Posted by DVDYETI

Hi, I followed instructions and it say' s I'm rooted but I don`t see super user anywhere on my device how do I know I'm rooted ?. KINDLE FIRE HD 7 ,7.2.3.

I made sure I ran as admin on Windows 7 32bit. Do I need to register my device to do this or should it work without.

Any advice welcome

thank you

DVDYETI,

You should find Superuser under the Kindle /Apps/ Tab. When you click on the /Apps/ tab

you will notice a Cloud and Device button at the top. Click on Device, you should now

see Superuser. Click to open Superuser. If it opens, you will see "Superuser" at the

top left and Clear Log at the top right. Close Superuser by pressing th <-- Arrow.

If not, download Root Checker Basic:] to your desktop.

Using Windows Explorer, move Root Checker from the Desktop to /Kindle/Internal Drive/Download

Now go to the Kindle, using Root Explorer, go to /sdcard/Download you will see

suchecker.apk, click on suchecker.apk and choose Install. Once install has completed,

then click Open or go to your /Apps Tab, be sure /Apps is on Device. Next click on

Root Checker Basic, open it. Next click on "Verify Root Access". Wait you will be

presented with a Superuser dialog box, be sure to click "Allow". Wait, in about

5 seconds you should see "Congratulations! This device has Root Access!". If you

do not see this, reply back. We will get your root working.

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Thankyou for taking the time to reply it's much appreciated.

For some reason i definitely don't have SuperUser after rooting.

So i downloaded RootChecker from your link and copied it into my downloads folder on my KFHD.

Now i need to get ROOT EXPLORER on to my KFHD which i presume is a Payed App in the Amzon Store,the problem is i cannot get this App as my KFHD is unregistered. Is there some way i can get this to my KFHD?

I was thinking maybe i can buy ROOT EXPLORER from the GOOGLE PLAY store and download it to my HP TOUCHPAD and then transfer it from touchpad to my Windows 7 laptop and then somehow transfer it to my KFHD (is this even possible ?and more importantly how)

Thanks again for your help.

Regards DVDYETI
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Disco.Stu:
Thanks!

I'd just like to say thanks to Prokennexusa - the guide you have put together, along with the downloads you have provided are excellent. Your patience with us noobies is astonishing!

After using your guide, i finally have mu Kindle Fire HD rooted and google play installed. I plan to add a launcher later today.

I had a quite a few problems, beginning with my 64bit Vista System - its very fast and powerful but I got nowhere with it despite getting ADB recognised, a device number from the ADB Devices cmd etc, RunMe.bat always just hung.

I then switched to an older XP laptop and seemed to be doing better until Bin4ry's tool failed to push Busybox and hung for ages - at this point I realised I needed the MTP upgrade to WMP11 - I then could not install it because I'm running hookey windows :)

Finally resorting to my brother in law's Windows 7 laptop, running cmd from all programmes/accessories (right click, run as admin) and navigating to the correct folder and running the tools, step by step, as you described it finally works!

The only thing I'd add to your guide is to maybe mention the amount of time the tools take to run and that qemu has 4 steps and is not spelled QMENU as the folder states but QEMU as in your instructions.

Thanks again Prokennexusa, you are a star!

DS
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] jeremy_fr:
Can't pass the step 1...

I can't pass the step 1 for rooting...

I use Windows XP SP3.

I follow all the steps above but when I run RunMe.bat and chose the option 1, the cmd application tells me " Please connect your device...".

But it's already connected, I've installed the drivers (with the link in this thread) and I enabled the ADB feature.

I don't know if its important but when I plug my Kindle Fire HD, Windows asks me to install the drivers automatically and I refuse.

Do you know how to do?

Thank you all,
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Root and Google Play for Amazon 7" Kindle Fire HD Software Version 7.2.3

Jeremy_fr,

Sorry for the delay, we have been quite busy today. OK, let's make sure you have the driver correctly installed

go to Windows Device Manager, do you see Android Composite ADB Interface? Next, look inside the

Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v17 folder, next open the Stuff folder. What is the date and time of the

adb.exe

AdbWinApi.dll

AdbWinUsbApi.dll

Should be 12/28/2012 4:52 PM, anything later means you did not download our software.

Next, download ADB Update here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/54456659/ADB%20Update.zip save it to your desktop.

Unzip ADB Update.zip to ADB Update on your desktop. Next open up the ADB Update

folder. Now, while your mouse is hovering over the ADB Update folder (DO NOT select

any of the files in the folder) press the Shift, then the Right Hand Mouse button, choose

"Open command window here". A Windows Command window will appear, next type

in the following commands pressing enter after each:

adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb devices

Please respond back with the results after each command. We will get you Rooted,

I promise.

Best Regards, Chris Bryant (prokennexusa Team Member)
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] dammitman:
Fail after fail, to no avail.

Okay, after downloading all of the files in the op, updating adb files with the latest posted here, and got adb composite drivers installed as well as the usb entry in the .init file, I am completely lost and unable to root this device.

I have a Kindle Fire HD 7 running 7.2.3 and have adb and unknown sources checked. The device shows up in adb devices and no matter how many times I try, this device will absolutely not root. I have had probably 30 tries and fails so far.

Each time I ran cmd as Administrator, cd to both the Root_with_Restore folder and Qemu and each time the RunMe.bat is ran it pushes the su binary and superuser.apk files and whatever else just fine. Upon prompt, I select restore and it reboots pretty fast. No slow or sluggish start-up. After it boots all the way, nothing. Every time! So without hesitation, I run RootQemu.bat and it reboots the device, wait about a minute, and it runs the next step and reboots again. Each time it gets past the second step it says exploiting blah blah failed basically.

I am running this all on a Windows 7 64bit machine and have even tried a fresh Windows XP SP3 32bit and 64bit VirtualBox install with all required drivers and steps complete. Even tried manually running the /data/local.prop commands and pushing su binary as well as 20 or so factory resets on the device, insuring a fresh start "from the top" each time. I just absolutely cannot root this device no matter what.

I tried to be as concise and thorough as possible.

Any suggestions?

:banghead:
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Qemu Fails to Root - PM Leave Number Please

dammitman,

I am sure it is something small, yes frustrating. We would be happy to help, since you have done just about everything,

send us a PM (Private Message), with your phone number and time range to call, we'll get you Rooted, I promise.

Then we will post the solution on XDA Developers so it can help other people in the community. Our support is free.

Best Regards, Chris Bryant (prokennexusa Team Member)
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] enigm@:
Finally cracked this after trying on and off for a few days

From the start i could see ADB interfce in device manager, but when ever running the runme.bat i always had a adb out of date error etc.

I've lost count how many times ive installed/ deleted the files

Thought i would give it one last go,before trying and after reading more about peoples problems i opened task manager and looking through i saw the word "Daemon"

I traced it to a program i downloaded to my pc that i was going to use to sideload apps before i discovered this forum.

On deleting it ( snapea) i ran the runme.bat and everything worked fantastic.

Just like to say a big Thanks to prokennexusa for the nooby guide, and everyone else who has contributed to this :good:
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] MadJoe:
After several days of fighting this thing, I have achieved root!

As you can see in my screen shot, it took installing the drivers manually as an ADB Testing Interface for me to get coms with my Kindle through ADB, but it worked.

Anyone else still fighting with getting ADB to recognize the Kindle Fire HD, should do the same. Just right click "Computer", and select "Manage" from the drop down "this works on Win7 and Win8 as long as you have "Computer" showing on your desktop. In 8 you can also search for "Device Manager" and select "Settings', and "Device manager" should be the first choice from there.

After that, select "Devices" from the list on the left and look for your Kindle to either show up correctly as stated earlier in this thread, or as Kindle with a yellow triangle on it. Either way, right click it and "Update Driver Software", "Browse My Computer", "Let Me Pick from a List of Device Drivers on my computer", the select "ADB Testing Interface" (should be the first choice if you've attempted to install the drivers from the OP).

Then manually open a cmd prompt with Administrator privileges, navigate to your "Root_with_Restore_Bin4ry_Q17" folder where ever you've placed it and type "runme.bat" and press enter. Everything should work.

Good luck!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Clark33 Phone Support Notes - Follow Up

enigm@ and clark33,

First, I want to thank you both for the kind comments. We are really honored that out Noob Series is helping

you both. We really believe in helping others and believe in the Open Source model. We hope the Noob

Series sparks enough interest that triggers other people to make this a hobby. The more developers

that share, the better the products get in the end, this includes Newbies sharing. Now getting to

our last support call with Clark33.

Device was a new Kindle Fire 2, the following steps solved Clark33's problem:

1) Download the latest Root MANY ANDROID from here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/54456659/Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v17.zip

2) Download the latest Qemu Automated Root from here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/54456659/Qmenu.zip

3) Download our ADB Update here (the above utilities include this update): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/54456659/ADB%20Update.zip

4) Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete choose Task Manager, next click on Processes. Find all adb.exe and End Task. When done, close the

Windows Task Manager.

5) Next, go into C:\Program Files\Android\ rename android-sdk to android-sdk-kindle

6) Go back to our steps and begin at:

Root Step 1: Run RunMe.bat from Root MANY ANDROID! through a command window as noted.

That was it, the adb.exe daemon and API's were old and did not have the correct date of 12/28/2012 4:52 PM this was the

root of Clark33's trouble. He now has a Rooted Kindle Fire 2 7"!

Best Regards, Chris Bryant (prokennexusa Team Member)
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
ADB Driver Install

MadJoe,

Great work, thank you for the feedback. If for some reason you do not see ADB Testing Interface, go back to our video on How to Manually

Install ADB.

Best Regards,

Chris Bryant (prokennexusa Team Member)
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] Clarke33:
MEGA KUDOS!! to Chris for the help on solving my problems trying to root. Seriously, I had killed several hours last weekend trying to figure some of this out. Had Chris not helped I don't think I would have ever come up with the correct solution. As a total Noob it is refreshing to find a site that offers support and help, even if you don't have a clue. This whole Android thing looks like something fun to play with and I for sure will be watching and waiting for other Noob threads and advice. Again, thanks for the support!!:good::victory:
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Follow Up - Feedback

Clark33,

Thank you again for the commends, this motivates us to move forward in the Noob Series.

I responded to your PM, let me know if you are stuck. I will be available tomorrow.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] blklab49:
Thanks

Just a short note to say thanks. The instructions to root as well as the other how to guides worked great without any issues. To complete the modifications of my kindle, I would like to change the lockscreen and remove the ads. Is there a guide for accomplishing this.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] gitlygit:
I struggled a bit with the kindle being recognised as a adb device, but read through the forum and got there in the end. My wife is now delighted with her hd, not just satisfied. Thanks.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Follow Up - Feedback

blklab49 and gitlygit,

I am happy we were able to serve you and your family. We thank you for the kind

response too. If you find yourself backed into a corner, keep us in mind, we offer

free support to everyone in the XDA Community and although we are focusing on

the Kindle at the moment, we support every phone and tablet on the market.

blklab49, we are working on the Lock-screen service as we speak, we should

have a tutorial in the next week.

Have a great Holiday!
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] alecjacobryan:
Kindle Fire HD 8.9 successfully rooted

You guys rock!! I have been trying unsuccessfully for three days to root my Kindle Fire HD with 8.9" display. For other novices like me here is the problem I was having with the driver:

The driver appeared to be installed fine. I could navigate to the SD card in the Kindle using explorer and the Kindle was listed in the device manager and listed with the appropriate driver. However, the Bin4ry v17 would not see the device (check using cmd prompt and navigating to "stuff\adb devices" it would not list the device. (I would also get a failure message every time I installed the driver from Amazon.) Using the cmd prompt (right click as an administrator to run cmd) I navigated to the driver installation file. DO NOT right click the driver file and run as administrator in Windows 7 explorer. This successfully installed the driver with no error message after installation of the Kindle driver. Follow the instructions in step A below. Carefully following the instructions in step B below to root the Kindle, I installed the driver a second time (in the same manner using cmd prompt) with the Kindle on and attached. Rebooted both. Now the Kindle was seen by Bin4ry software. I am using Windows 7 and did not any of the alternate drivers listed. The Amazon driver worked when installed in this manner.

Again for new guys like me to install the Amazon driver: 1) click windows start button, 2) in the "Search programs and files" box type "cmd" (don't hit enter or search), 3) the program "cmd.exe" should be listed at the top. Right click that and select "Run As Administrator"

I am so happy to have my Android apps again (used to have a Droid). So many of them that I use are not available in the Amazon store for the Kindle.

Although "Play Step 13 and 15" below did not specify moving those to the system\app folder and changing the permissions, I did it any way because the instruction for all the other files said to do that. I also did not do 'Play Step 16" to eliminate the Market requests. I'm not sure why I need to do that. Everything seems to work fine. If it's a problem I can always come back and do it.

Thanks again for putting this out there. I am VERY appreciative of the people that share their knowledge with the world.

(reposting cuz I accidentally replied to wrong post)
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
alecjacobryan,

We really appreciate the feedback and have added the recommended notes to the tutorial. We love it when

people give us Feedback that in turn makes the Tutorial polished and eliminates frustration. Review what we

added, make sure it makes sense to you. If you have any other feedback on this post or any of our Tutorials,

please post the Feedback. We try to make changes the day of the request. Thank you for the kind comments

as well.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Root and Google Play for Amazon 7" Kindle Fire HD Software Version 7.2.3

To All -

We want to Thank all users who give us Feedback so we can improve the Noob Series.

The following Steps were added when installing the driver:

1. Unzip Kindle Fire ADB drivers.zip to Kindle Fire ADB drivers on your desktop.

2. Click windows start button.

3. Next choose Search, in the "Search programs and files" box type "cmd" (don't hit enter or search).

4. The program "cmd.exe" should be listed at the top. Right click that and select "Run As Administrator".

5. Navigate to the Kindle Fire ADB drivers.exe using the DOS Command cd.

The key is to install everything at a "Administrative" level. Normally, when you open a Command

Prompt the security level defaults to User, not the required Administrator level. This causes the

driver to fail install even though it appears to install without issue. This same idea needs to be

used when running the RunMe.bat and the QemuRoot.bat. If you have any other questions

or feedback, please respond to this thread or give us a call. We offer free support to the entire

XDA Developer Community.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] ninjabeaver:
Problems with KFHD 7.2.3 Root

Hey guys I keep getting permission denied when I attempt to run the .bat file... I am opening it in an administrator command line, with all your utilities, kindle fire adb drivers, my kindle shows up when I send "adb devices" command. I think my problem could possibly be when I have the kindle plugged into the usb, and you look at the device manager, it shows a portable device and when you tree down from there is says kindle fire...but at the same time as I plug it in "android phone" pops up on the manager as well, tree down from that and it says "adb composite device"

Don't know I have tried uninstalling all the drivers, running both user level and admin level command prompt...not sure what else to do just keep getting permission denied.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] dammitman:
This is the "exact" same part I simply cannot get past when I've tried to root as well.

I have a post basically saying the same thing a few pages back, and also the same issues with Qemu too. Alternative driver install didn't help either.

Anyone have any ideas or input?
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] tipperbeanfad:
OTACert.zip

Like a few people in this thread, I have not been able to find a solution when it comes to the missing OTAcert.zip file. I am using ES Explorer and have had no luck whatsoever. There is no /system/ directory for me to find. I can confirm it has been rooted; everything up to this point worked like a charm. I know this isn't an immediate matter, as I can still finish the process, but I do not want to start rooting only to have everything undone.

Thanks!

EDIT: Figured it out by a mistake, but now it's not letting me delete it or even rename it. I moved it to Downloads.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Root and Google Play for Amazon 7" Kindle Fire HD Software Version 7.2.3

ninjabeaver,

Please navigate to the Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v17 > Stuff folder. What is the date of adb.exe?

Should be 12/28/2012 4:52 PM. If not, go back to our Thread and download our utilities, not another

persons utility. If this is OK, then go to the Qemu folder, open it. Next while your mouse is hovering over

the folder contents (DO NOT select any of the contents), press the Shift Key, while you are depressing Shift

click on your Right Hand Mouse button, choose "Open a command prompt here". Next enter the following

commands, pressing Enter after each command:

adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb devices

Please respond with the results after each command.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
Follow Up

dammitman,

Please navigate to the Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v17 > Stuff folder. What is the date of adb.exe?

Should be 12/28/2012 4:52 PM. If not, go back to our Thread and download our utilities, not another

persons utility. If this is OK, then go to the Qemu folder, open it. Next while your mouse is hovering over

the folder contents (DO NOT select any of the contents), press the Shift Key, while you are depressing Shift

click on your Right Hand Mouse button, choose "Open a command prompt here". Next enter the following

commands, pressing Enter after each command:

adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb devices

Please respond with the results after each command.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] prokennexusa:
tipperbeanfad,

When you installed ES File Explorer, did you go into "Root Settings" and check

all the options? Did you get a Superuser Pop up asking to "Allow" Root Access?

If you are using Root Explorer, did you press on the "Mount RW" on the upper

Right side of the application? How to navigate, to this point when using ES

File Explorer, is to notice at the top of ES File Explorer, do you see /sdcard/?

If yes, press Up once, you should now see "local /" at the top. Now click on

the system folder, you should now see "local /system/". Now click on

the etc folder, you should now see "local /system/etc". Now click on

the security folder, you should now see "local /system/etc/security"

This is how you would navigate to other folders. If you can not delete

the file, this is usually due to a lock on the file. Then attempt to

move the file. Did this help?

If not, send us a PM with your contact number and time range to call.
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] tipperbeanfad:
Yeah, I had issues with the mount option. It didn't let me select it before, so i didn't think about it... But I did some looking, came back to that option, and it worked incredibly. Thank you! :)
[7" Kindle Fire HD General] ninjabeaver:
So the dates are correct and now adb is not seeing the kindle correctly