Kindle Fire

How to Root Amazon Kindle Fire on Mac OS X and Linux

Procedure to Root Amazon Kindle Fire on Mac or Linux:

  • First up head to your Amazon’s Kindle Fire home screen and from the top right side of the screen tap on the “Settings” icon as shown in the below image.

Home Screen Kindle

  • After this, select on the option of “More” and then click on “Device” as shown in the below screen capture.

Select MORE

  • Up next go to the option of “Allow installation of Applications” and then tap on the option of “ON”.

Select Device Amazon Kindle Fire

  • Now, it’s time to connect the Amazon Kindle Fire with the computer and then when your kindle displays the option of “Disconnect” then tap on the same to take the device out of USB Drive Mode.

Allow Apps Installation Kindle Fire

Instructions to Root Amazon’s Kindle FIRE on Mac:

  • Now, go to the folder where you have unzipped the files and enter the below mentioned command

cd Downloads/KindleFireRootLinux

  • Now, you need to enter the command which will make the directory and will copy the contents to that particular folder.

mkdir ~/.android
cp adb_usb.ini ~/.android/.

  • Now, you need to restart the adb so that you can execute the following command.

./adb-mac kill-server
./adb-mac devices

  • After executing all the commands which are mentioned above, you now need to enter the below mentioned command.

sh runmemac.sh

Once you executes all the commands which are mentioned above, you now see the Kindle fire reboots and then the Kindle Fire is successfully rooted. Do let us know just in case if you face any issues. Let’s proceed to the instructions on how to root if you are having a Linux based computer.

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