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View Poll Results: Do you plan on modyfing Kindle Fire's software in any way (rooting, sideloading etc)? | |||
Yes, I love freedom to tinker | 56 | 46.28% | |
No, I love the walled garden | 65 | 53.72% | |
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11-29-2011, 03:51 PM | #46 | |
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Nah I rooted, because here soon I expect to put market and gapps on there and hopefully soon there will be adhoc support. |
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11-29-2011, 04:09 PM | #47 |
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I personally know some friends that are getting it just to root it
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11-29-2011, 04:44 PM | #48 | |
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11-29-2011, 04:50 PM | #49 | |
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If you want to add Android Market, you may want to see my notes here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=158615 |
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01-02-2012, 06:30 PM | #50 | |
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01-03-2012, 03:38 PM | #51 |
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I have no plans on rooting it.
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01-04-2012, 07:36 AM | #52 |
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I have no plans to root. I have an Android phone and haven't rooted that either. I do have a bunch of apps I've sideloaded.
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01-04-2012, 11:34 AM | #53 |
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I rooted only for a few minor reasons: to get the android market and google calendar. Both require you put a file in a directory that's normally read-only and then you can unroot, which I did. I have only re-rooted after updates long enough to fix those two functions (actually android market never stopped working for me but the google calendar did). Both are really a matter of convenience.
Beyond that I don't plan on doing much tweaking, for a while at least. I'm at the point with it now that it does everything I want. But not everything has been discovered by the hackers yet. |
02-18-2012, 03:50 PM | #54 |
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Coming in way late here and reversing my previous answer, I would really like to root it. If it hadn't been a gift from someone who had no business giving me a gift that expensive, it would be rooted. But if i mess it up, I would feel lower than slime.
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02-18-2012, 04:10 PM | #55 |
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No intention of "rooting"!!
....Ever!! My Kindle fire is not even recognizable as the Amazon product without rooting at this point. I am running Go launcher & Rotating wall paper. All of my mainly used Apps are side loaded including any Video I may want to watch using "Mobo player" I am using Aldiko For My Novels & PDF files I am using Comic reader mobi for my Comic book reading in CBR& CBZ format making the Comixolgy app useless to me. I am an artist to the Autodesk Sketchbook mobile I got from Amazon for $1 was a great deal . Not interested in installing android market. Cheers Last edited by Anabran; 02-18-2012 at 04:14 PM. |
02-19-2012, 11:47 PM | #56 |
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I got the Fire figuring I'd root it and replace the OS if I wasn't happy in Amazons walled garden, but so far, I'm happy, and I'm finding the walls aren't really that high.
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02-20-2012, 04:53 PM | #57 |
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