These are my notes and some guidance on rooting the Fire and installing Android Market.
NOTE: This is an advanced procedure. You should not try this unless you understand the goal of the steps involved, and are capable of making adaptations if the steps don't work as expected.
Original Root Procedure - Looks to me like every new guide was spawned from this source
Reformatted Root Procedure - One of the many reformatted procedures spawned from the original
Notes:
- Installing the Android portion takes a while
- Could not install the drivers correctly on my Win7 64 machine. Worked on my XP laptop.
- Make sure to install busybox when prompted! This will be needed when installing market.
Install Android Market
Notes:
- You do not need to use the Root Explorer app!
- Instructions linked above are wrong in several ways, impossible to follow unless you know what you are doing
- There is no vendor.apk - it is com.amarket.apk
My procedure (adb steps borrowed from posts in the same thread, busybox required or will not work) :
1) Download the APKs from the link above - only need the GApps zip
2) Install GoogleServicesFramework.apk using ES File Explorer
3) Use the following to copy com.amarket.apk and set permissions (adb was used to root the device and should still be available)
Code:
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cp /where/you/put/apk /system/app
chmod 0644 /system/app/yourfile.apk
exit
exit
4) Install com.amarket.apk using ES File Explorer and confirm prompts. May need to change settings so root is not /sdcard/
5) Reboot
Market Opener - Launch Android Market without changing stock Kindle Fire launcher - Nice! Save a copy of this somewhere safe
OTA RootKeeper - Toggle root on/off to allow video. Tested and confirmed to work. Reboot required after change.
CIFSManager - Mount windows share - can't get this to work, need cifs.ko for Kindle Fire. If anyone can recommend something that duplicates this functionality, please do!