I Received a Fire HD 7 from Amazon for christmas. I soon realized that it was a decent little tablet for the money but the amazon operating system is simply horrible. I have done some research on how to root this type of tablet, but ran into the issue that if I don't do it with with the right software it could turn into a worthless paperweight. The Fire HD 7 that I have is the 4th Generation running Fire OS 4.5.2, I believe it goes by the name sangria. I want to root it and run something like cyanogenMod.
This is not the Tate or soho version.
(camera on top, micro usb on top, lock button is on top)
Unfortunitely this is not possible as Fire OS 4 removed all exploits. I'm currently using the Thor, and it sucks that I can't root it. The bootloader only supports safe strap so don't try anything with flashing via fast boot. I side load apps on to my device as to make the best of it. Merry Christmas. I feel this something to be brought up at XDA.
Yeah, as I feared. This would be a decent device if I could root it. Now i'm stuck with the decision, wait it out until maybe someday a method is found, or just sell it and put that money into another tablet.
I know it's risky as the device never received Fire OS 3, but try contacting Amazon stating that the *update* to Fire OS 4 has been causing errors. They may initiate a rollback to Fire OS 3, however the factory image would have to ported from a Thor. Just a long shot.