Firerooter

What is this?

Firerooter is a tool that makes it easy to perform administrative tasks on your Kindle Fire HD 7" 2013 (KFSOWI/Soho), such as reinstalling the system or rooting the device, as long as you have a fastboot cable. It does not work on any other devices, and may permanently damage them.

Downloads

You can download Firerooter for your OS of choice or you can get the code from GitHub.

Cut to the chase – how do I root with this?

Easy! Just turn off your tablet, connect it to your computer with your fastboot cable and press Install and modify FireOS. You'll be able to root your tablet from there.

Troubleshooting

If the program isn't working properly, make sure you are connected via a wired Internet connection.

You may also want to disable any antivirus software, especially if you are getting an error message of the form "file downloads/<some filename> not found". Firerooter is open source software, so you can always check the source code if you don't trust it.

Updates

Every now and then I like to push out updates to Firerooter to add new features or fix bugs. You probably want to download the latest version (the older ones are even buggier!)

Here's a list of updates I've released and their changelogs:

0.3-devel

• Completely rewritten reinstall wizard:
• Supports reinstalling FireOS 4
• Multiple concurrent downloads
• Faster and more reliable
• Reinstalls at any battery level
• Allows rooting any version of FireOS immediately after install
• Can also install Google Apps, block OTAs, fix wallpapers
• New minisystem revision with SELinux support
• Can use Google Apps and Amazon Apps at the same time
• Icon gets a hat in December now
• Cleaner codebase

0.2.3-devel

• Restore now removes everything in /cache folder to work around badly-behavioured installers leaving their files there.

0.2.2-devel

• The app now uses the Nexus drivers, which are less error prone.
• Battery percentage now displayed on screen when reinstalling FireOS.
• New icon – huge thanks to fraubi89!

0.2.1-devel

• FireOS reinstalls:
• The app will continue to reboot until we get to recovery.
• Cancelling a FireOS download no longer causes error spam.
• If the file downloads/boot.img is found, it will be flashed to boot.

0.2-devel

• Added update check on startup.
• Improved resilience of the FireOS reinstall process.
• This should fix the 'exclamation mark' issue on recovery mode.
• Added support for 11.3.2.2 on FireOS reinstalls.

0.1.1-devel

• Added wipe checkbox to the reinstall FireOS window.
• Fixed an issue where the reinstall process would exit when the files were downloaded.

0.1-devel

• Initial release.

Get involved

You can help me work on Firerooter by submitting pull requests on GitHub. If you do submit anything, please make sure it has been tested and that it works reliably.

Contact

If you run into any issues or want to say thanks or need help or whatever, feel free to email me! Please do your own personal research before emailing me, i.e. if you're emailing me to ask something and the answer is readily available on the Internet, I will not answer your question.