today I'm going to show you how to
jailbreak your fire stick or your fire
stick 4K or your Fire TV Cube it works
on all of them jailbreaking or sometimes
you hear it called side loading
basically just means you're allowing
your device to download apps that aren't
actually available in the official app
store and it's not nearly as intense as
it would be on other devices like phones
or tablets there are other things that
you can Jailbreak but that involves
going into the code and changing actual
code we're not doing anything like that
it's a very simple process basically you
just need to know where a few of the
settings are to allow you to do that on
your Fire TV device first let's get into
how you actually do this and then we'll
talk a little bit more about what we're
doing after I'm done all right first
things first when I open up my Fire TV I
need a downloader app well there's a
very convenient one called conveniently
downloader so you can go over here to
search and you can type it in or if
you've got a remote with the voice
search controls then you just press that
button
downloader
and that's exactly what we're looking
for that orange one it's downloader like
I said you can type that in or you can
just voice search it but we need to get
downloader
luckily it's free all right so that will
download while we're waiting basically
this is the app that will allow you to
download the other apps like I said apps
that aren't available in the Fire TV app
store all right now before we go there
I'm going to go back to my home page and
head over to settings
I come down here to My Fire TV and I'm
looking for developer options now I
don't see that here on my screen okay
there's no developer options so I'm
going to click on about here
and in this case I'm using my Fire TV
Cube it might say Fire TV stick for you
whatever the device is that you're using
I'm going to click on that seven times
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uh you are already a developer okay it
says you're already developer and voila
push the back button goes back here to
developer options that has now shown up
so I want to click on developer options
we have ADB debugging that's off we want
to turn that on and what is ADB
debugging doesn't matter I'm going to
come down here to install unknown apps
and allow downloader to do so now
technically that's all we need to do but
you may want to also turn off any
tracking depending on what kind of
activities you plan on doing with your
side loaded fire stick okay so I'm going
to go back to my settings and this time
go to preferences
and down here on privacy settings I want
to make sure that my device usage data
and the collect app usage data is turned
off and I'm going to do the same thing
down here in data usage monitoring make
sure that that is off basically this
just means you're not sending your data
back to Amazon to analyze and voila
that's pretty much it alright so now I
can go to my apps and I've got the
downloader that I can pop into
there it is and if any messages come up
you know make sure you give this app the
permissions that it needs to access your
files that sort of thing now as far as
what apps you may want to download that
is outside the purview of this video
this is just about how to get you this
far now if there are apps that you want
to add things like Kodi or a different
browser or game emulators those sorts of
things this is the app that will allow
you to do that and so you can search for
how to get those but this video is just
about how to get you this far but a word
of caution I do want to make sure that
you're aware that when you do this the
reason that it's not automatically set
to allow you to do this is because now
you're allowing external apps onto your
Fire TV device that Amazon has not
approved there may be different reasons
they haven't approved of them some of
the apps are allowing you to illegally
download pirated content some apps are
well they're not checked by any
development team at Amazon so they may
be carrying viruses or malware that that
sort of thing so there are definitely
some words of caution when it comes to
doing something like this side loading
on your fire stick but it is a powerful
option if there are apps out there that
you want to get things that you want
your fire stick to be able to do that
it's not able to do straight out of the
box so with that word of caution be
careful stay safe and have fun with your
side loadable Fire TV device and I will
see you next time
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