Saturday, October 21, 2017

Removing Lock Screen Ads from Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet 7 (7th Generation) OS Version 5.4.4 From windows and Ubuntu

This blog is a compilation of a youtube video by TaylorTech and comments of the viewers.
You can see the video at this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPdMJGsskUY

Ads in the lock screen is quiet eye pressure than eye candy. So those who want to remove ads from their fire tabs lock screen just follow the processes below.

From Windows PC:
  1. First Check if your device is recognized or not. (this pc/ my computer->right click->manage/properties->device manager->Universal Serial Bus Devices->Fire)
  2. If recognized it is fine if not download the driver from this link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/android-sdk-manager/redist/kindle_fire_usb_driver.zip
  3. After that Download the flashing and adb tool from this link: http://bit.do/adb-fastboot-tool
  4. After finishing download extract the folder and browse it via cmd (cd to this folder)
  5. Issue the command: adb devices
  6. You will see the lines that are saying daemon is starting and devices are offline, go to your tab unlock the screen and you will see a dialogue box is asking for permission, just give the permission and you will see the device is listed in cmd shell.
  7. After that issue the command: adb shell
  8. you will see a prompt like this: shell@austin:/ $
  9. Now paste the command after the $ sign:  pm clear --user 0 com.amazon.kindle.kso
  10. After that you will see success in the cmd shell
  11. Now restart your tab and your lock screen is ad free


From Ubuntu PC:

  1. Install the ncessary packages for adb by issuing this command in terminal: sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot
  2. Now issue the command in terminal: adb devices
  3. Now issue the command in terminal: adb shell
  4. And put the following command after $ sign: pm clear --user 0 com.amazon.kindle.kso
  5. You are done, reboot your device

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