If you’ve been reading about Kindle Fire 6.2.1 and its enhancements to Amazon’s tablet, you’ve probably heard of its drawback: disabling roots on Kindle Fires and preventing rooting from reoccurring.
While a fix for already updated Kindle Fires is still being developed, Gizmodo has written about a procedure that should allow users to maintain WiFi access to select apps on the tablet without starting an auto-update.
The procedure works on already rooted Kindle Fires and hinges on knowing how to sideload apps, then downloading and sideloading an app called DroidWall from the Android Market. Upon installing DroidWall, you’d need to fiddle around with the whitelist settings – that is, which apps or capabilities of the tablet have permission to use the WiFi – and you should be good to go.
A more detailed write-up can be found on the link below. While we haven’t been able to test it for ourselves, following the procedure closely and being successful will enable you to get the most out of your Fire till someone gets around the update.
Source: Gizmodo
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