Read this whole guide before starting. This is for the 2nd gen Fire TV (sloane) Current relase: amonet-sloane-v1.1 NOTE: This process does not require you to open your device if you're already rooted or you have TWRP. NOTE: If something goes.
Status I have a proper boot.img as the developers on the XDA-Developers thread have already made a succesful bootloader unlock and TWRP bootloader for it. I am currently stuck at the kernel step. I have the source code for the original firmware, as provided by amazon.
I am not exactly sure how to extract the kernel from it. chaosmaster / amonet. I have a Fire TV 2 (DV83YW) sitting around that I haven't used in several years.
Just for something to do, I am trying to install Linux on it. I know you can sideload apps or chroot into another install from Fire OS (rooted), but I want to try and figure out how to natively install. This guide is only for the Fire TV 2 2015 (not stick) codenamed "sloane" with mt8173.
This will flash correct partitions and TWRP into it. This WILL NOT. This topic was automatically closed after 365 days.
New replies are no longer allowed. The Amazon Fire TV 2 (codenamed "sloane") is a mid. LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 5, which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.
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LineageOS is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra. Official Amazon download links for full and differential OTA firmware, stock apps, and source code. For other FireTV device firmware visit the following: 3rd gen Cube (gazelle - 2022) FireTV 2 box (sloane - 2015) 2nd gen Stick (tank - 2016) 4K Stick (mantis - 2018) 3rd gen Stick (sheldon/p - 2020) 4K Max Stick (kara - 2021).
Recovery for the Fire TV 2. This is based off of TWRP and the way versions will work is I will increment the last digit in the version as I make updates. So 3.0.0-1 is my first release based off of 3.0.0.
The downloads will be numbered starting at v1, and at the bottom of the post it will explain what is contained within each version.