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In case you are one of the Kindle Fire users who have updated your device to the latest 6.2.1 firmware, here is good news for you. A method to gain the root access of your updated device now has been made available for you. This time the rooting method will not involve opening up the device, the rooting process will go through rooting software instead. Thanks to Justin Case of TeamAndIRC to make the software root available for the 6.2.1 firmware on the Kindle Fire. Simply run the application that is named with BurritoRoot on your PC followed by a few manual ADB commands and that’s it. Do you want to know the complete step? Just read on this article.

Regarding to the rooting procedure, it supports all known firmware versions, with the exception of v6.0. Apart from that fact, you need also to remember that we are not responsible of the possible risk that may come up in the future which is including damaged or bricked device. So please follow the entire steps at your own risk.

Before we move on to the instruction section, you need also to know what are needed for rooting the Kindle Fire and below is the list of requirements of rooting the device.

Requirements to root Kindle Fire on 6.2.1 Firmware:

• Kindle Fire running the latest 6.2.1 firmware.
• ADB installed on your system.
• BurritoRoot apk.
• Superuser zip.

Instructions for rooting Kindle Fire on 6.2.1 Firmware:

1. The rooting process starts with downloading the root app and superuser package.
2. Once done, now you have to copy the root app to your Kindle Fire and install it.
3. After this, extract the superuser package.
4. On the Kindle Fire, run the BurritoRoot app and hit the Root button.
5. Connect the device to the computer and run command prompt or terminal.
6. Within the terminal or command prompt, navigate to the location of the extracted superuser files.
7. Enter the following commands:

adb root
adb remount
adb push su /system/xbin/su
adb shell chown 0.0 /system/xbin/su
adb shell chmod 06755 /system/xbin/su
adb install superuser.apk
adb reboot

When you have finished the entire steps of rooting process above, now you should have gained the root access of the device. Simply visit the forum thread at RootzWiki for the latest information of this method. In case there were issues, you can get also solution in there. Have a nice try people.