Amazon has a new software update to Kindle Fire. Bring Kindle Fire software update to version 6.3.1. This update has several new features like additional parental controls to Kindle Fire, including the ability to password-protect purchases, disable access to specific content libraries, and block access to the Silk web browser. As usual, Kindle Fire software update version 6.3.1 breaks root access. But no worry, you still can root it again latest Kindle Fire Utility.
Amazon Kindle Fire does not have Android Market but have Amazon Appstore instead. So you can either sideload Android Market applications and games to unrooted Kindle Fire manually. Or install Android Market on Kindle Fire permanently then install apps and games from there. Having Android Market on Kindle Fire is easier, right? Yes, but you need to have root access on Kindle Fire first in order to install Android Market. Anyway, rooting Kindle Fire is not hard, just follow below step by step guide will do.
Oh, no. I am on Fire! Hehe… I just got myself a Kindle Fire from Amazon. Not getting it from Amazon US directly since I want to have Kindle Fire as soon as possible (don’t want to wait for another 2 weeks shipping time). Therefore, I bought it from Lowyat Forum Malaysia locally. Kindle Fire will keep me busy for months because I got lot of stuffs to learn again. Hmm… I planned to get Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Asus Transformer Prime. But both of them are still not available in Malaysia. Have to wait until early next year. So I got a budget Android tablet ~ Kindle Fire instead…
How to install Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ROM on Amazon Kindle Fire? Yes, that’s the question you can ask now. Why? Hashcode Android 4.0 ICS Kernel for Kindle Fire fixed shutdown and charging issue finally. And most of the essential stuffs are working properly (some still not working though). So it is good time to try out Android 4.0 ICS ROM on Kindle Fire now.
Root Amazon Kindle Fire has lot of benefits. But it also brings some downsides. Yup, if you are Amazon Prime member that love to watch stream movies and TV shows with Kindle Fire, you will notice that these services are not available anymore after you rooted Kindle Fire. In order to watch them back, you need to unroot Kindle Fire. But that is not a perfect solution because you need to use PC to unroot it permanently. Applications that need root access are not working anymore then. That is not the way that we want.
