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[ale] SW root for Amazon Fire 8HD gen-7 possible
- Subject: [ale] SW root for Amazon Fire 8HD gen-7 possible
- From: DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 15:12:18 -0500
Seems someone found a software root last week, 26th, for the 2017 Amazon
Fire 8HD tablets, finally! It provides a temporary root with SELinux
disabled.
It is 3-5 commands, depending on your existing developer options. In
short, freakin' easy.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/hd8-hd10/general/discussion-root-progress-fire-hd-8-t3743024/page104
Tested it. Working here. YMMV. Be careful and don't brick yours.
All I've done so far is replace the 1 line /etc/hosts with my 131K line
anti-tracking variant. Verified that the worst tracking sites weren't
available, then rebooted the tablet and verified they still weren't
available.
I may want to install a real firewall and busybox shortly, but haven't
at this point.
I did not install SuperSU.