How to root Kindle Fire HD 8.9" I have purchased a Kindle Fire HD 2. Generation (2012) and wanted to root it. I followed the instructions from Rooting a new Kindle Fire HD and and other instructions found via google.
When I run the Bin4ry version, the pad is really slow afterwards for some reason. I found this thread here, but it&#39;s not really helpfull.

I also tried the Qemu version, but this also doesn&#39;t work. The only thing this resolves is that it runs at normal speed after it&#39;s done, but the device is not rooted.

So are there any tips on how to do this? I would like to get Google Playstore running, instead of being chained to Amazon. All information I find with google leads me back to the same solutions which don&#39;t work.
My Kindle OS is 8.5.1 where the above solutions don't work (nor any other I found via google).

However, I found a thread on xda developers which pointed to a file name root_master.apk and this one successfully rooted my device.

When using this apk, the process was partially in chinese (which I don't understand), but it worked. Not sure if this app is safe though, so use at your own risk.