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[Q] Rooted my Kindle fire but it updated and now root seems to be undone

Hey Guys,
I recently rooted my Kindle Fire HD and installed Go Launcher onto it and everything was going perfectly. I then installed Google service and Google Play store which worked perfectly too but this seems to have triggered a Kindle Fire update which now seems to have removed Go Launcher from my kindle...although I can see that the apk file for it is still present. I was wondering if this means that my Kindle Fire has somehow un-rooted itself or if I just need to install Go Launcher again? I am a little baffled as to which way to proceed next, I could re-root but don't want to unless necessary since it is risky and I dont know the affect of re-rooted a machine.
Thanks,
Emmz

I did the same (rooting, play store, go launcher) and i didn't have an update and i still have root.
If i were you, i would first find out if the root-rights on your device really disappeared. For example you could use the ES File manager to find it out. Check if the root-settings in ES are set respectively can be set.
Did you install the go launcher correctly as described in the forum? Copy the apk to /system/apps, set the permissions and install it from there. Be careful!! Everything you do is at your own risk! Read the related thread before you start.
Good luck!
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just reroot it would be my suggestion, update gets rid of root but ive read in some instances where people were still able to use their launchers too tho. i havent received an update yet but after i rooted mine, i renamed the otacerts.zip file to otacerts.zip.bak and i also checked that ota keeper box in superuser.

As others have said, OTA updates will unroot the device, and anything else you may have moved to the system folder will also be removed. This usually means launchers and the Vending.apk for Google Play too. It's safe to root again and reinstall your apk. This situation happened to me twice (OTA'd one day, and a few days later, another surprise OTA), and I've already rooted again and reinstalled my launcher.

7.2.2 Root

So just now I got the new 7.2.2 update. Lost root too. I will test qemuroot and see how it goes.

Let me know as well. I lost rot but market and Swype still work. I did not even notice this thing restart.
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I got the update but still got the root
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7.2.2 Lost Root
This morning I was attempting to get my wallpaper picker working and ES File explorer wouldn't let me copy into system/apps. qemuroot fails with copying /data/local.prop
I was just starting to like this hunk of crap.

lost root too after the update. have tried qemu tool but that did not work.
step 2 -exploiting
/system/bin/sh: cannot create. /data/local.prop: permission denied
rebooting
i also noticed that the /data folder is empty. is there any solution to re-rooting this device?
thanks for your help
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I lost root also but I still have my launcher with widgets and play store loads up. Wasn't able to root with qemu tool. I can navigate outside the sdcard folder but have read only access. So far I haven't noticed any issues with existing programs after losing root.
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cannot create /data/local.prop
Same issue here.
neoseekar said:
lost root too after the update. have tried qemu tool but that did not work.
step 2 -exploiting
/system/bin/sh: cannot create. /data/local.prop: permission denied
rebooting
i also noticed that the /data folder is empty. is there any solution to re-rooting this device?
thanks for your help
Sent from my KFTT using xda app-developers app
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On the other hand, the update did bring the swype keyboard and the new freetime thing. I hope this one can be rooted. It was a neat update since swype and other keyboards don't really work in landscape.

jacewt said:
On the other hand, the update did bring the swype keyboard and the new freetime thing. I hope this one can be rooted. It was a neat update since swype and other keyboards don't really work in landscape.
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And I'm loving the new keyboard so far too. The thing I hate about the update though is that without root ADW Launcher is not recognized as a system application any more so it can't be bound to the home button and set as a default launcher. Also I can't add widgets on the desktop for some reason.
Otherwise the system is pretty much OK providing you have google play previously installed. But we really need the root back for all the newcomers that want market and customize the device.

same issue here

maxx1985 said:
same issue here
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Me too. Just got it usable (from Norway) and then the 7.2.2 came...

I did not get the update until now. Looks like renaming otacerts.zip really prevents the update?
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7.2.2 Flu
Got hit myself. Neither Qemu or Bin4ry's Root w/restore were successful at restoring root. I'll just sulk with my stock Kindle until you frightfully clever fellows beat this one, too.

i root my kfhd last night and i was trying to install google play and boom!! autoupdate works and 7.2.2 came root lost :crying:

Got the update to 7.2.2 last night, didn't get swype KB, which would have been great as the stock KB is a dog, lost root as did everyone, ES still says i have root access but "I don't" desperately awaiting a tool to regain root, that said I've still got Play Store, and Go launcher is still my default launcher, so it's not the end of the world. what we really need is a cracked bootloader and custom roms to take control of what could have been a really nice tool.

Meh, I got this second kindle for my mom as a Christmas present, was planning on spending the day rooting and installing stuff
What are the chances that someone will come up with a work around before the 24th?
I need time to set everything up for her, debating on returning this to get a nexus7 or galaxy

Also trapped in closet. Hope 7.2.2 is rootable! Thanks ayaxxa for the tip with renaming otacerts.zip.

My root has gone!
I just rooted today an was installing google play store actually was pushing the apk to the kindle HD and when I noticed that it couldnt send it an was restarting !!!! after that i see the update logo!!!!! hate amazon ! Hope somebody can find the re root procedure guys!

Ouch just got this in the mail today and it has 7.2.2 already. Just my luck seems to be having wifi issues too... Well at least I won the darn thing

7.2.2 root
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Ouch just got this in the mail today and it has 7.2.2 already. Just my luck seems to be having wifi issues too... Well at least I won the darn thing
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hi are we all getting same thing. online and unknown when you start kfu

[Q] KFHD still rooted... well some sort of

Hey,
i have a really strange problem. i rooted my KFHD some time ago. everything worked fine, superuser, google playstore, es-fileexplorer with system and so on. some days ago i wanted to install the app kindlefree (posted here in forums). but when i opened the app it said, it would need a rooted device. root checker from the play store also says "no root". superuser lists two apps with full permissions: es-fileexplorer and sixaxxis (use ps3 controller for android). both apps work fine and with the file explorer i can go up to the system files of the KFHD.
Maybe this problem has something to do with the amazon update. systeminformation says im on 7.2.3_user_2330720
so my quastion is what has to done, to fully root my device again? is it only some sort of bug or do i need to do the whole root-process + installing vending.apk etc. again?...i dont hope so because the rest of my device works really great but is was a long process
Does anyone else the same problem? thank you guys

If you were updated then you will have to re root all over again.
I recommend turning off the ota updates after you do it all again.
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[Q] lost root today, no google play

Did I miss something? Was there an update in the last day or two that removes root access?
I noticed today that I couldn't access G Play Store, and couldn't delete hosts file because I couldn't mount r/w. Then supersu said there was no binary installed... hence no root
WTH man. Any advice? Do I need to re-root?? I use KFFirstAide, so I guess it wouldn't be that bad... still...
Thanks all

I heard that x.4.6 got released, root I think works, I'm not a amazon stock user as my signature says. Just go for it, it should work, if kffa doesn't try binaries root.
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I know bin4ary's method works, because that is what I used.
Mine came with 7.4.6, and I am having difficulty determining what will work with it. If the update just went out, that makes sense.

Ok here's what worked:
Re-root using KFFirst Aide. Used the auto process, worked great (did not have to wipe device first).
Then followed KFFirstAide guide to installing Google Play manually. Works fine and I don't have to reinstall anything.
It appears that the latest update removes anything not stock in system/apps, which would explain why gplay stopped working (no logon services or framework)

[Q] reset to factory settings a rooted KFHD 7" and install Cyanogenmod on it

Hello everyone,
My name is Marika and I'm quite desperate! in fact, I decided to register on this forum because I can't figure out how to "save" my Kindle Fire HD 7".
I must say I am a total novice and working on a Mac, but I have access to a PC with Windows and Linux, too.
My problem is the following: I rooted my KFHD to install Google Play store and I installed Go Launcher EX and HD because I hated the carousel and wanted a nice tablet without necessarily showing everyone what was going on on my device.
I don't know if something went wrong but everything worked just fine until I noticed that even if I tried it, I couldn't update my KFHD from Amazon. I tried to ask the troubleshooting service and they told me I had to send back the device and they would send me a new one; so I tried to wipe it clean and unroot it otherwise they would charge me for the second device. The unroot part was fairly easy, and I tried to restore it to the factory settings by the default button inside the device, everything was cancelled but I couldn't update it, still, plus I noticed that the Go Launchers were still there. I re rooted it in order to try to remove the files manually but I couldn't figure out what to do, the only thing I know is that I have no "uninstall" button on these apps so I can't get rid of them, can someone help me? I would like to install Cyanogenmode now instead of those...
Thank you in advance for your time and sorry if this problem was already posted somewhere else, but I couldn't find anything similar to my case!

I'm confused, why area you trying to remove this stuff if you want to install CyanogenMod, when you install cyanogen mod it wipes everything including the os and excluding the sdcard, so there's no point in removing launchers. It sounds like you thought cm was a launcher, am I right or not understanding this right?
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actually no, I didn't think that Cyanogenmode was a launcher; I just thought that the Go Launchers would stay loaded on it anyways and that I needed to get rid of them to install the OS.
I would also like to figure out what could have happened to the KFHD to behave in a such way, because maybe there's really something that doesn't work and it's better if I get a working one while the warranty is still active, that's why I needed/wanted to do what I explained.
Thank you for your reply!

Well when flashing cm it you will basically factory reset, and the launchers that are stored in/system/apps will be wiped too, because everything in /system is deleted when you flash it. As for the updates you could always just restore a older version of amazon os and it would probably fix it, but why do you want to update the os? Most people disable updates so they don't have to keep rerooting it.
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yeah probably it's easier and better to install cm right away without any other troubles!