Comment by marcod

8 months ago

I just realized I had a few Kindle Fires lying around in a box.

I wanted to give one to a friend who didn't have a good phone so she could listen to audio books. Turns out those old Fires are no longer updated and Android is so old I can't even install anything current on it.

I hope to change that with https://kindlemodding.org/ which was mentioned, so appreciate the writeup :)

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marcod

theblazehen 8 months ago

They don't cover the Kindle Fires, however you can get a _slightly_ newer Android from https://xdaforums.com/f/kindle-fire-android-development.1309...

marcod 8 months ago

Darn, I checked XDA but must have been in the wrong forum because that's really what I was looking for - thanks!

wintermutestwin 8 months ago

https://kindlemodding.org/

I appreciate finding that site as well, but I thought it strange that I couldn't find a "why jailbreak" section. Does anyone here know?

I don't want Amazon's spying on me so I have just kept it in Airplane mode since I bought it 9 years ago. It seems to work fine ¯\(ツ)/¯