Once other Fire tablet models are rooted, it will hopefully be possible to adapt the rooting method to Fire TV devices. The previous generation 2017 Fire HD 8, the current Fire HD 10, and the current Fire 7 tablets seem to be among the devices that will likely first be rooted. Other Fire tablets are being worked on first, since that’s a logical first step. People are already working on adapting the existing 2018 Fire HD 8 rooting method to other Amazon devices.
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This mode, which is apparently meant to be used by system architects to recover from botched software flashing, cannot be updated or patched without changing the physical hardware of the device, according to the creator of the rooting method. The rooting method used to root the Fire HD 8, which will likely be used to root many other devices with MediaTek CPUs in the near future, takes advantage of a bug in a deeply rooted “download mode” found on seemingly all MediaTek CPUs. If that’s accurate, all Fire TV Stick 4Ks, Fire TV 2s, Fire TV Stick 2s, which all use MediaTek CPUs, may all technically be rootable. The creator of the rooting method says the bug can only be fixed by changing the hardware and that it exists on all MediaTek CPUs. That’s because exploit used to achieve root access, and unlock the tablet’s bootloader, relies on a bug in the MediaTek CPU.
A new rooting method for the Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet has been released this week that has the potential sweep across multiple Amazon devices, include the fire TV line.