Rooting an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K
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This tutorial will walk you through the high-level process of rooting an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K (3rd generation of Fire TV Stick, released in 2017).
Rooting the stick is possible thanks to an exploit uncovered by user xyz on the XDA forums and user k4y0z who created a nice package for executing the exploit. They called this package kamakiri.
Why root Unlocking the Fire TV Stick with root access allows us to install anything we want on it and circumvent the limitations of the stock operating system.
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