John Hoff The Kindle Fire HDX Tablet is Just One Of Those tablets, you know – the ones That you love so much for the robust specs but hate so much, Because Of The software embedded in it. In this case it is Amazon’s proprietary OS Fire. Nothing against the concept or tweaked Android stuff, Because We love that. It’s just the locked bootloader on the tablet – which Means you can not easily change software – that tick us off
The Kindle Fire HDX is one robust piece of tech -. We dig the 7-inch and 8.9 inch full HD displays, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processors, and the 2GB or RAM. What’s not to like? Well, the locked bootloader, for one. If you grow tired of Fire OS, there is no easy way to get to a stock Android-based ROM. (There is a way, but it’s just not easy or as safe.)
Enter XDA member “dpeddi” Who has published a procedure to unlock the bootloader – the first step to safer and more generic flashing or custom ROMs to your Kindle Fire HDX. There are a couple of caveats to this process though. First, you need to have root access to your device. How you do that is your issue to do (besides, it’s fun to finally get root access). Then, you need to be running the Kindle Fire HDX firmware version 3.1.0 through 3.2.4 ONLY. If you’re running something newer, you have to find a way to downgrade. Lastly, the commands are run from a Linux PC. We’re pretty sure someone can translate That to a Windows-driven process soon, though.
Oh, and please note – if you wanna do this to a Fire Phone, you’re out of luck, it’s not going to work. Pretty rough hack at this point. But if you exercise a little patience, we’re pretty sure this is going to get the shaft Easier hacking matures. Check out the original thread at XDA here at your own risk
VIA:. Liliputing
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