Once you’ve downloaded these files, copy them to your Kindle Fire’s storage by connecting your Fire to your PC with a USB cable, and dragging and dropping the files to your tablet.
But be forewarned, it’s a kind of complicated process and there’s plenty of room for things to go wrong. If you haven’t rooted the Kindle Fire or installed Team Win Recovery Project, we’ve got a guide for that. You can always just revert to your previous software, whether that’s CyanogenMod 7 or Amazon’s stock software.
I recommend using the Kindle Fire Utility to install a custom recovery and then visiting the xda-developers forum for the latest Android 4.2 download links to get started.īut if you’ve already rooted your Kindle Fire and installed a custom recovery it’s actually pretty easy to take Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for a spin without much risk.
Update : There’s now an unofficial build of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean for the Kindle Fire.
Update : Now you can also install Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on the Kindle Fire! The steps below will show you how to do it, but grab the latest version of Android from the xda-developers forum. Update : A new kernel also adds hardware video acceleration, which means you can stream Netflix and other HD video content. Update : There’s a new version with working audio, USB mounting support, and a number of other improvements. But there is work underway to port CyanogenMod to some of those tablets. If you have a Kindle Fire 2, Kindle Fire HD, or other tablet, they won’t work. Note: These instructions are for the 1st-generation Kindle Fire. While developers have solved a bug affecting the “sdcard” portion of the device, there are still audio, video, and application bugs that need to be fixed. If you didn’t get the picture from our recent video, it’s still very much a work in progress.
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