JackpotClavin, a young developer from XDA came up with a way to install CyanogenMod 7 on Kindle Fire.

CyanogenMod 7 for Kindle Fire isn’t stable yet. We recommend waiting at least for a beta version. This version is for testing purposes only. It works only on Kindle Fire Software Version 6.0 and 6.1.

If you install CyanogenMod 7 you cannot go back to stock firmware and you will lose all of kindle Fire’s integration with Amazon.

If you still want to give it a try, here is a tutorial on how to install it.

Let’s get you started:

Step 1

Root your Kindle Fire

Step 2

Download CyanogenMod7 and place it at the root of your SD card so that its address is /sdcard/update.zip

Download ClockworkMod Recovery and place it to root of SD card as well.

Step 3

Download log and last_log and these under /catche/recovery as well as root of your SD card

Use the following adb commands to place log/last_log to /cache/recovery:

adb shell
cd cache
mkdir recovery
cd /
cp /sdcard/log /cache/recovery/
cp /sdcard/last_log /cache/recovery/

Step 4

We will now flash ClockworkMod Recovery. Use the following commands in adb:

adb shell
cd cache
mkdir recovery
cd /
cp /sdcard/log /cache/recovery/
cp /sdcard/last_log /cache/recovery/

To reboot into recovery, type:

idme bootmode 0×5001

If it say “bootmode has written”, type “reboot” to, well,

reboot!

Your Kindle Fire will now boot into ClockworkMod Recovery (CWM).

Step 5

Press Power button on your Kindle Fire so you can install update.zip from SD card. /system, /data, and /catche will be wiped automatically. JackpotClavin modified CWM so that it would work with the Kindle Fire’s lack of buttons, so basically you just have to press the Power button a bunch of times.

In one of the menus, it’ll look like you have to scroll down to Yes. Instead, you must press Nobut it will, as the developer says, “mimic you pressing Yes”.

Step 6

After flashing CyanogenMod 7, the developer suggests reflashing the stock recovery. Download the stock recovery and use the following adb commands:

adb shell
mount sdcard
exit

 

Now, you must enter the correct path for where you’ve stored the stockrecovery.img file, so that your next adb command looks like this:

adb push <full path of file> /sbin/

Then,

dd if=/sbin/stockrecovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/mmci-omap-hs.1/by-name/recovery

Step 7: Wait for a minute and then type:

adb reboot

If you followed the steps correctly, your device will reboot into CyanogenMod 7.