We’ll be connecting the points with a small piece of aluminum foil. The flathead screwdriver will be used to open up the Fire TV Stick to get access to the small capacitors on the board that we need to short circuit to unlock the bootloader. We need to make a slight hardware change to unlock the bootloader on the Fire TV Stick. We’re going to use Linux to burn a patched Linux kernel ISO into the USB drive which will be used to boot from and run the exploit on the Fire TV Stick. We’ll need the following items for this tutorial: We’ll only be going over the rooting process and optionally installing Arch Linux on Termux towards the end of this post. Block ads on the homescreen and in applications.Block Amazon auto-updates that remove features.For example, here are some of the things that can be done with a rooted Fire TV Stick: 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. 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. 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).
