When you root your kindle fire what exactly do you "lose"?
Would it be possible to root my kindle install the market then un-root and still be able to do everything plus the market?
You don't lose anything.
Unless you move to CM7 which you would then lose Amazon Prime.
If you stay with the stock rom rooted, you can use OTA Rootkeeper to unroot temporarily to use Amazon Prime, but that is about all that might need that.
If i do this will the market still work.
1 root
2 install market
3 unroot
playmobot said:
If i do this will the market still work.
1 root
2 install market
3 unroot
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OK. So I restored back to the stock Kindle Fire rom. After I did that, it restarted like 3 times and now it's unrooted. I'm pretty sure it didn't update itself. But I'm not sure.
Also, Kindle Fire Utility won't detect my kindle, so I can't use that to reroot. What would be the easiest way to root it again? I don't want to go through the hell that I experienced last time aha.
thanks
If you figured out how to root it the first time you should be able to do it again all the tools are located in the Developer section go do some reading and do it.
zack_droid said:
OK. So I restored back to the stock Kindle Fire rom. After I did that, it restarted like 3 times and now it's unrooted. I'm pretty sure it didn't update itself. But I'm not sure.
Also, Kindle Fire Utility won't detect my kindle, so I can't use that to reroot. What would be the easiest way to root it again? I don't want to go through the hell that I experienced last time aha.
thanks
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Use BurritoRoot3 to root and get FFF.
Then try to get KFU working to install TWRP.
Actually I'm having a very similar problem. My Kindle Fire automagically unrooted and now it isn't being recognized in any adb at all. I'm even using Ubuntu Linux right now and "adb devices" doesn't recognize my KF.
Before unrooting, my Kindle Fire had stock rom with no recovery. Just rooted to have access to default android market. I don't know what to do right now.
Does anyone know a method of temp rooting the KF with the new update?
I have been using BurritoRoot3 to toggle it to root to make minour modifications, but don't want to have any issues with video, etc...so after installing Swype etc, I turn root back off.
I love the ability to just flip the switch until the next reboot.
Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper works well.
GBH2 said:
Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper works well.
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Actually I don't have permanent root, and I have received the update.
I don't want to permanently root, just root temporarily when necessary.
fwp said:
Actually I don't have permanent root, and I have received the update.
I don't want to permanently root, just root temporarily when necessary.
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Oh, I misunderstood. You need to root it and then you can temporarily unroot. I am rooted and I use OTA Rootkeeper to Temp unroot and use all of Amazon's services - free Prime instant videos, Prime members free book lending library, etc. no problems.
Excellent, thanks. That is the opposite of how I was doing things, but I think that will do the trick.
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Actually, on my Kindle Fire, rooted with Stock 6.3 root, I can temp unroot and watch Prime Videos, but I still can't see the lending library. When I click Store, it takes me to the Android Kindle browser, which doesn't show the lending library. I've looked at screenshots - and it is definitely different. I've confirmed that I've temp unrooted it, and I've even rebooted it - no avail. Any thoughts?
Solution: http://raywaldo.com/2012/01/kindle-fire-works-great/
Remove Kindle App updates from Android market.
Was rooted but had to restore, had problem doing it but got 6.3 back on it. I have twrp, so did backup of kindle 6.3. It works fine being stock, But i would like to put Android market or something back on here. I had 4.0 i think it was on here and work good till i started haveing problem with go launcher, that when it went down hill for me. Not sure what to put on and after messing it up before iam not sure how to go about doing it, so anyone could tell me what to go with and how to do it.......ahh in a way i can understand
Thanks
I didnt get this right..
Do you want to know if your phone is still rooted? If yes please follow these steps under:
Open terminal app. your prompt should be $. Type in "su" and hit Enter. If prompt changes to #, you are rooted. If you get "Access denied", you are not.
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This is a Kindle Fire....it was rooted with 6.2.2 BurritoRoot3,
bigguyone said:
This is a Kindle Fire....it was rooted with 6.2.2 BurritoRoot3,
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If you took the 6.3 update you will have to root again download root checker click verify root if it comes up with red writting your not rooted if if comes up green you somehow retained root although unlikely
Thepooch said:
If you took the 6.3 update you will have to root again download root checker click verify root if it comes up with red writting your not rooted if if comes up green you somehow retained root although unlikely
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Also if you no longer have the su app, then you no longer have root access.
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No don't looks like its rooted......but cant get ether of my computers to install drivers. Is there a setting that may have been done so computer wont let install......
I'm in need of some help, I'm rooted or so i'm lead to believe, I used wugfresh's method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475 and everything seemed to work as planed but when i try to use TB or rom toobox it tells me I don't have root. I also tried root check and that comes back telling me I don't have proper root access. Can someone show me some love and help me out.
Thanks.
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I'm in need of some help, I'm rooted or so i'm lead to believe, I used wugfresh's method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475 and everything seemed to work as planed but when i try to use TB or rom toobox it tells me I don't have root. I also tried root check and that comes back telling me I don't have proper root access. Can someone show me some love and help me out.
Thanks.
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Install busybox installer from the market and install/update busybox. See if that fixes your issues. Also try installing SuperSu from the market, opening it, and updating su binary when it opens.
Did you run the busybox free app?
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Metallice said:
Install busybox installer from the market and install/update busybox. See if that fixes your issues. Also try installing SuperSu from the market, opening it, and updating su binary when it opens.
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I installed busybox installer and when I try to install/update it says it failed. As for SuperSu, it doesn't give me an option to update the su binary.
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Did you run the busybox free app?
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I ran busybox free and it says it's unable to verify whether or not certain utilities needed for this app to run are present and functional on my device. This problem could be caused by a device that is not properly rooted or by superuser settings that are misconfigured
njswift10141980 said:
I'm in need of some help, I'm rooted or so i'm lead to believe, I used wugfresh's method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475 and everything seemed to work as planed but when i try to use TB or rom toobox it tells me I don't have root. I also tried root check and that comes back telling me I don't have proper root access. Can someone show me some love and help me out.
Thanks.
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Likely not but thought i'd ask - Did you update to 4.1.1 after initially rooting?
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Did you have the apps that use root before you rooted? I've noticed with some apps (that work with and without root) sometimes dont register that root is installed on your device so perhaps you should try redownloading them from the play store.
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Likely not but thought i'd ask - Did you update to 4.1.1 after initially rooting?
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Yes, I installed the update after rooting.
jonnyg1097 said:
Did you have the apps that use root before you rooted? I've noticed with some apps (that work with and without root) sometimes dont register that root is installed on your device so perhaps you should try redownloading them from the play store.
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I've had the apps for a while on my droid x but I waited until after I rooted to also install them on the N7. I also tried uninstalling them and reinstalling them but they still don't work.
njswift10141980 said:
Yes, I installed the update after rooting.
I've had the apps for a while on my droid x but I waited until after I rooted to also install them on the N7. I also tried uninstalling them and reinstalling them but they still don't work.
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When you take an update it unroots your device. Re-root it with the tool and you'll be fine.
neilrl79 said:
When you take an update it unroots your device. Re-root it with the tool and you'll be fine.
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He should've used voodoo over the air rootkeeper to back up n save his root. So once you update, you can easily restore rot with one click in that app instead of having to use roottoolkit again.
neilrl79 said:
When you take an update it unroots your device. Re-root it with the tool and you'll be fine.
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I feel like a moron especially since I froze the updater on my droid x, I'll give it a try when I get home from work, is there anything special I should do or will I just have to click the root button?
demandarin said:
He should've used voodoo over the air rootkeeper to back up n save his root. So once you update, you can easily restore rot with one click in that app instead of having to use roottoolkit again.
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I will have to look at this app.
I will report back later.
Just rerooted and it looks like everything is working, thanks everybody
Hi,
I'm rooted running stock.
My bank's app requires that the phone will be unrooted (it won't let me sign in). Is there a way to make the app think that I don't have root access, or is there a way to temporary unroot my phone, for when I'm using the app?
I've tried to disable the root from SuperSU, to use RootKeeper OTA, and this thread instructions, and some more market apps, but none of these worked. Even titanium backup didn't believe me that I'm not-rooted
Can you guys help me out?
Thanks
Alkonost said:
Hi,
I'm rooted running stock.
My bank's app requires that the phone will be unrooted (it won't let me sign in). Is there a way to make the app think that I don't have root access, or is there a way to temporary unroot my phone, for when I'm using the app?
I've tried to disable the root from SuperSU, to use RootKeeper OTA, and this thread instructions, and some more market apps, but none of these worked. Even titanium backup didn't believe me that I'm not-rooted
Can you guys help me out?
Thanks
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Most apps just look if you have a superuser.apk in /system/app/. Try to put "com." at the beginning of the name. So you don't have "superuser.apk" but "com.superuser.apk". I already done this and i have root and the app thinks im unrooted.
Thanks a lot! This + Rootkeeper made the app think I'm not rooted
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