My goal is to merge in support for the 2nd gen Kindle Fire into my existing 3.0.31 kernel which is already running JellyBean on the 1st gen device.
I'll update this thread with more information as I get it.
Requirements: the device needs to be rooted and the signature check bypassed in some way to support loading a new kernel and ROMs. There is another thread in this section to discuss that.
Hashcode said:
My goal is to merge in support for the 2nd gen Kindle Fire into my existing 3.0.31 kernel which is already running JellyBean on the 1st gen device.
I'll update this thread with more information as I get it.
Requirements: the device needs to be rooted and the signature check bypassed in some way to support loading a new kernel and ROMs. There is another thread in this section to discuss that.
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Hi, hashcode!
i have two questions:
1:do you think there are many hardware differences between 2nd gen and 1st gen kindle fire? as i known, the cpu upto 1.2GHz, the RAM upto 1GB, that's all.
2:can you make rom and kernel which support both 1st gen and 2nd gen kindle fire?
thanks!
Right now everything i see in the kernel source says the devices are exactly the same with the 2 exceptions you mention.
I do think that Roms can be built to support both devices at once.
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Then why can't I install the kindle fire 2 rom on the original? I am not very familiar with Roms but I took an existing ics rom for kindle and switched out the systems and it went through TWRP but it stuck at the bootloader. Any ideas? I just really want the launcher. How can I go about doing this?
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locked bootloader on new Fire?
tgdaily.com/mobility-features/66202-next-gen-kindles-have-locked-bootloaders
The kindle fire can be bought here in Germany starting tomorrow. I don't know if I really want one if those devices cannot be made compatible with Jelly Bean.
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I just rooted my Kindle Fire, and like to install a stock jellybean rom. I looked at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1765288
which says
Download 4.1.2_r1 ROM here [10-10]
md5sum: d300fbbd65f3037f54519f7c3c2bc4a5
PLUS YOU WILL NEED TO FLASH GAPPS AFTER
Jelly Bean Gapps here
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However when I go to the links I see newer versions of the ROM.
I assume I should download jb-4.2-kfire-hashcode-12-18.zip, but which Gapps do I need?
Do I want the one for CyanogenMod 10.1.x 4.2.1? I assume so, but I'm a bit nervous to just do it ....
I know this is really a noob questions, but that's what I am!
magicalhen said:
I just rooted my Kindle Fire, and like to install a stock jellybean rom. I looked at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1765288
which says
However when I go to the links I see newer versions of the ROM.
I assume I should download jb-4.2-kfire-hashcode-12-18.zip, but which Gapps do I need?
Do I want the one for CyanogenMod 10.1.x 4.2.1? I assume so, but I'm a bit nervous to just do it ....
I know this is really a noob questions, but that's what I am!
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It all depends on which fire you have..7" or 8.9". The 7" is still in the process of being developed to run CM10, there are devs running it but it is not stable. I believe they have accomplished running CM10 on the KF2 and the 8.9" but if you have the 7" there is no additional ROMS
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It all depends on which fire you have..7" or 8.9". The 7" is still in the process of being developed to run CM10, there are devs running it but it is not stable. I believe they have accomplished running CM10 on the KF2 and the 8.9" but if you have the 7" there is no additional ROMS
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Hmmm, my fire is a 7" (at least the size of the screen is 7" measured diagonally). I ended up installing the most recent ROM from that link and also the most recent gaaps, and it seemed to work decently.
However I did notice one weird thing (perhaps a coincidence) soon after. All my gmail got marked as read as soon as it arrived. I found there was an entry in my google 2-factor permissions called Android Login V1, noticed by others too. I'd post a link, but as a new member, I'm not permitted to do it. I'm not saying this is anything bad, but it was a weird coincidence. I zapped it, and also my stock Android Login Service from my phone. Now it's ok, but made me a bit nervous.
I'd be interested to hear from other KF 7" owners on which ROM they are using!
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Hmmm, my fire is a 7" (at least the size of the screen is 7" measured diagonally). I ended up installing the most recent ROM from that link and also the most recent gaaps, and it seemed to work decently.
However I did notice one weird thing (perhaps a coincidence) soon after. All my gmail got marked as read as soon as it arrived. I found there was an entry in my google 2-factor permissions called Android Login V1, noticed by others too. I'd post a link, but as a new member, I'm not permitted to do it. I'm not saying this is anything bad, but it was a weird coincidence. I zapped it, and also my stock Android Login Service from my phone. Now it's ok, but made me a bit nervous.
I'd be interested to hear from other KF 7" owners on which ROM they are using!
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It's and fire HD or just the fire 2 ?
nim182 said:
It's and fire HD or just the fire 2 ?
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I think it's just a fire 2. The model is D01400 if that helps.....
magicalhen said:
I think it's just a fire 2. The model is D01400 if that helps.....
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So, I think you are on the wrong forum, this is for HD units...
The Kindle Fire 2 has, since a few days, the CyanogenMod 10 ROM running... but, as I said, this forum is for Kindle Fire HD units so I recommend you to open a new thread on the "Kindle Fire 2 Q&A, Help and Troubleshooting" thread.
Please help. I have done a through search of the forums and found nothing on the subject. (Any search including "otg" returns results for "ota" updates.) The ability to use a flash drive as a kind of external hard drive was a MAJOR reason I rooted and installed a non-stock os. I have a Kindle Fire HD running twrp, cm10.2 and hashcode's 3.0.50+ kernel. I have tried both the "stickdrive" and "USB OTG Helper" apps with no luck. I was told in another thread that some ROMs will support USB OTG mounting but when I asked which ones I didn't get a response.
Thank you in advance.
Last I heard hashcode hasn't enabled otg in his kernel yet, and I think all ROMs use his kernel except stock amazon and kinology. You should wait for some other people to verify what I said first though because I am not 100% sure on this.
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stunts513 said:
Last I heard hashcode hasn't enabled otg in his kernel yet, and I think all ROMs use his kernel except stock amazon and kinology. You should wait for some other people to verify what I said first though because I am not 100% sure on this.
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What is "kinology"? I'd be willing to try it out and update as to the results if I knew where to download it.
Its in the android development section, but it uses the same kernel as stock amazon os, its basically Amazon's os, but modded.
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Its in the android development section, but it uses the same kernel as stock amazon os, its basically Amazon's os, but modded.
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I tried both of the apps I mentioned before I rooted/modded my KFHD with no luck. So, do I just need to wait till KitKat and CM11 come out?
Or just wait until hashcode gets otg working. I think he was going to work on otg after all the other bugs and such are worked out. Seems like waiting for cm 11 to have otg would take longer than waiting for the current version, because I'm guessing the new version will have a new kernel so some things will have to be redone, and bugs introduced. Personally I'm just hoping by the time the next android release is out we can still use a buggy flashplayer... Don't even get me started on that....
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Or just wait until hashcode gets otg working. I think he was going to work on otg after all the other bugs and such are worked out. ..."some things will have to be redone, and bugs introduced." ...we can still use a "buggy" flashplayer.
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Forgive me, why would one want to introduce bugs into a system?, and what is a "buggy" flash player? I thought bugs were glitches. Do you mean exploits?
Also, why do you use CM10.1? Is it more stable than CM10.2?
Eh well you don't want to introduce bugs into a system it just tends to happen when making something new while ironing the new problems out. That's why official releases of an os have these things fixed first usually before final release, though we tend to use alpha and beta ROMs a lot because some of us would rather have a buggy os than a amazon os. Not that hashcode's cm is that buggy anymore, he's worked out almost all the bugs I think. As for the buggy flash player, adobe stopped development a while back for flash player in ice cream sandwich, because they said html5 would be the future, even though so much of the net uses flash... Anyways the last flash player for ICS is kinda buggy on jellybean OS's, mainly because it wasn't designed for it, and some web browsers won't let u use the last version of flash because its buggy, like dolphin unless you download the modded version of the browser I found on the forums. One of the bugs I noticed is if I tap around in a video player too much it crashes the web browser. So no not exploits, just code that needs rewriting but will never happen since flash players is closed source. Ah as for me using cm 10.1, I just want to wait a few months until I'm sure that the apps in the market have stabilized, among other things, because some apps were having problems after the changes made in the new release caused certain apps to not work correctly. There's also a few other reasons like I heard about some of the libraries for the new version aren't optimized yet for our processor, and that there was a nasty bug with fstrim that could potentially hard brick our kindle by corrupting the emmc beyond repair. The bug that could do that isn't confirmed in the kindle fire HD, but it is said to affect the specific emmc that the kindle fire HD has. So yea there are a few things I'm waiting on before making the switch. Not to mention I'm happy with my os as-is right now.
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Ah as for me using cm 10.1, I just want to wait a few months until I'm sure that the apps in the market have stabilized, among other things, because some apps were having problems after the changes made in the new release caused certain apps to not work correctly. There's also a few other reasons like I heard about some of the libraries for the new version aren't optimized yet for our processor, and that there was a nasty bug with fstrim that could potentially hard brick our kindle by corrupting the emmc beyond repair. The bug that could do that isn't confirmed in the kindle fire HD, but it is said to affect the specific emmc that the kindle fire HD has. So yea there are a few things I'm waiting on before making the switch. Not to mention I'm happy with my os as-is right now.
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I hate to ask, but I'm still new to XDA and I'm still having a bit of trouble navigating. Would you post a link to where I can find CM10.1? Specifically the one meant for our KFTT? Thanks.
Here ya go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2245335
If you want, try the tablet ui patch in my signature for the latest cm 10.1, I haven't had much feedback on it. It also contains the same link I just posted.
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stunts513 said:
Here ya go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2245335
If you want, try the tablet ui patch in my signature for the latest cm 10.1, I haven't had much feedback on it. It also contains the same link I just posted.
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So... I would use the "Latest"? And how would I go about implementing your tablet ui?
Sorry to keep bugging you. I feel like I'm being a bother.
The instructions are on the link in my SIG, u basically flash the file I attached after u flash cm and gapps, and yea use the latest.
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stunts513 said:
The instructions are on the link in my SIG, u basically flash the file I attached after u flash cm and gapps, and yea use the latest.
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Thank you. I appreciate the help.
Still no OTG
JeremySwagS said:
I tried both of the apps I mentioned before I rooted/modded my KFHD with no luck. So, do I just need to wait till KitKat and CM11 come out?
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Well CM11 is out and still no OTG support for Kindle Fire HD. I sure wish that I could get this to work. I just don't know where to start.
New member here. I have the same problem -- KFHD7, CM11, no OTG. Did you ever figure this out?
Thanks.
-L
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Beaker319 said:
Well CM11 is out and still no OTG support for Kindle Fire HD. I sure wish that I could get this to work. I just don't know where to start.
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To JeremySwags and Breaker319,
Did you guys ever figure this out? I'm ready to pitch this thing...
-L
Hi there. I have a Kindle Fire HD 7" running version 11.3.1.0_user_30084920.
I have the device rooted and last time I checked there weren't any available Roms for the device. I saw some people post about a possible version of CyanogenMod coming for it. I also haven't put a recovery because all the versions I see are for the 7.x.x version of the Kindle.
Anyone got any links to posts about Recoveries or Roms for the 11.3.1.0 version of the Fire HD 7"?
cdover37 said:
Hi there. I have a Kindle Fire HD 7" running version 11.3.1.0_user_30084920.
I have the device rooted and last time I checked there weren't any available Roms for the device. I saw some people post about a possible version of CyanogenMod coming for it. I also haven't put a recovery because all the versions I see are for the 7.x.x version of the Kindle.
Anyone got any links to posts about Recoveries or Roms for the 11.3.1.0 version of the Fire HD 7"?
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there are none. At this point, rooting is pretty much the only thing available for the 2013 HD.
>>>Sent from my homebuilt TARDIS running Android 4.4... or maybe it's a rooted Kindle Fire HD running CyanogenMod 11<<<
Ph0enix_216 said:
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there are none. At this point, rooting is pretty much the only thing available for the 2013 HD.
>>>Sent from my homebuilt TARDIS running Android 4.4... or maybe it's a rooted Kindle Fire HD running CyanogenMod 11<<<
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Tis a sad day. Just gotta wait around for a rom i suppose. I hate the stock kindle setup.
just wondering whether the kindle fire hd 7 will get otg support, i know that most roms run hashcodes kernel and that it doesnt support it. I'm not demanding it or anything, i just want to know if its being considered? or in development? thanks. I want it for usb storage and controllers haha
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just wondering whether the kindle fire hd 7 will get otg support, i know that most roms run hashcodes kernel and that it doesnt support it. I'm not demanding it or anything, i just want to know if its being considered? or in development? thanks. I want it for usb storage and controllers haha
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I heard a while back that it was coming soon but, well.... that was quite a while ago.
>>>Sent from my homebuilt TARDIS running Android 4.4... or maybe it's a rooted Kindle Fire HD running CyanogenMod 11<<<
Once I get my ROM rolled out I might try to compile a kernel with it enabled, as-is I don't have enough storage space available on my Linux partition to download the cm sources and I've messed with the innerds a little bit for my ROM so I'd rather go from hashcode's sources.
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stunts513 said:
Once I get my ROM rolled out I might try to compile a kernel with it enabled, as-is I don't have enough storage space available on my Linux partition to download the cm sources and I've messed with the innerds a little bit for my ROM so I'd rather go from hashcode's sources.
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I hope its soon I can't wait for otg support!
just got mine 4 days ago...
i want to root it and install a decent Android os (e.g. CyanogenMod)
waht is the easyiest way ?
i read a few threads hear but i am kinda confused
a link to the most decent FQ and Guide will be apreciatet !
THX
First off, there are no modifications available (besides rooting) for the newer Kindle Fire HD. Secondly, you posted in the wrong section. You should have posted under the 7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A section.
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ok sorry..
but if i rooted the device i can install an alternative ROM
e.g. cyanogen
missbender said:
ok sorry..
but if i rooted the device i can install an alternative ROM
e.g. cyanogen
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nope, we haven't been able to crack the bootloader on the 2013 kindle fire hd, no custom roms available for it, sorry.