How to Root Kindle on Mac or Linux! {video tutorial}

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For those of you with Mac OSX or Linux, you can root it using this method:


Step 1. Go to Settings->More->Device and make sure “Allow Installation of Applications” is checked “ON”.

Step 2. Connect your Kindle Fire to your computer via micro-USB cable. And hit “Disconnect” to turn off the USB disk drive mode.

Step 3. Download KindleFireRootMacLinux.zip and unzip to the root directory of your hard disk such as c:\KindleFireRoot.


Download KindleFireRootMacLinux.zip


Step 4. Open up a terminal.

Step 5. Browse to the KindleFireRootMacLinux directory by typing:

cd Downloads/KindleFireRootLinux

Step 6. Type:

mkdir ~/.android

cp adb_usb.ini ~/.android/.

*Note – You might have to add “sudo” for Ubuntu

Step 7. Type:

For Mac:
./adb-mac kill-server
./adb-mac devices

For Linux:
./adb-linux kill-server
./adb-linux devices

If you get a bunch of numbers and letters, that means you are good to go.

Step 8. Type:

For Mac:

sh runmemac.sh

For Linux:

sh runmelinux.sh

Step 9. Your Kindle Fire should do its rooting and reboot.

You can verify you have SuperUser app by going to Settings->More->Applications->All Applications.

Yay!

I do not have anything show up when I do the devices command. I am running a mac.

Originally Posted by soundslikemitch

I do not have anything show up when I do the devices command. I am running a mac.

What do you get?

Did you do this step?

cp adb_usb.ini ~.android/.

soundslikemitch

I had this issue as well and zedomax is correct, you have to make sure that this file resides in your own $HOME/.android folder. While cp adb_usb.ini ~.android/. works you may want to try 'cp adb_usb.ini $HOME/.android` as well. I also had the issue where my fire wasn't being shown while executing ./adb devices which required me to reboot and then it seemed to start getting picked up without issue.

Hope this helps and thanks zedomax for the tutorial

There's a problem with the original instructions: adb needs to be restarted after editing adb_usb.ini. You need to run

./adb-mac kill-server

or

./adb-linux kill-server

to make it work without rebooting your computer.

Originally Posted by SifJar

There's a problem with the original instructions: adb needs to be restarted after editing adb_usb.ini. You need to run

./adb-mac kill-server

or

./adb-linux kill-server

to make it work without rebooting your computer.

thanks forgot to put that in the instructions, fixed!

Moving it to my home folder in .android worked!

But apparently this broke the video store.

No-go for me. Tried all above instructions and nothing shows up in devices. The thing that had me thrown off a bit is the instructions don't exactly match.

I want to follow exactly so is step 6 necessary since the zip file already has the android directory with the file already in it?

Originally Posted by soundslikemitch

Moving it to my home folder in .android worked!

But apparently this broke the video store.

I figured out how to fix the video store. Amazon seems to be looking for the existence of the file /system/bin/su so just rename it if you want to watch videos.

i.e.

mv /system/bin/su /system/bin/su2
reboot

I am still able to type "su2" and get root and I am able to play videos.

Another solution is installed voodoo OTA rootkeeper (free) from the market place. Once installed you can temporarily remove root, then restart the amazon video service and voila. Once the service is started you can re-enable root for the duration that the service is active (not rebooted) you will have root and amazon video.