after looking at numerous threads and advice, it seems quite complicated to install a simple fn app, which by definition, is supposed to be easy,
why firefox doesn't have it, considering that most stuff is only available on itunes or google store these days, is beyound me.
Even more so that i thought that the dual core would a) let me run ffos or android ie via easy restart mode,
and b) android would have the google store app.
so. how do i get this on. some ppl seem to be able, and there explanation is: its complicated.
fair enough. i hope you will help me and others to work through this. An explanation for dummies.
this is the best post i'v seen so far.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/firefox-os/general/zte-c-roms-cw-recovery-50-t2806173/page3
along with these links:
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_6NtXCtTLkHeGgzcDVwWnZWR2c&usp=sharing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/firefox-os/general/zte-c-roms-cw-recovery-50-t2806173/page3
so i can change my os from ffos to android and back. no problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axOYIfo7y2s
http://down.comebuy.com/Open_c_root_Android4.4.rar
but i get stuck with "adb reboot bootloader"
that won't work, so advice for dummies, from that point forward would be much appreciated. Thanks
ok, so tried installing two other adb programs, http://www.rockchipfirmware.com/sites/tntfiles/PDAnet-64bit.zip
and while neither where completely successful, they did manage to allow adb to access phone,
and for the commands to have determined affects, so have moved on to Upgrade tool, which does not recognize device, thoughts? help?
Hi darth lotus,
To install google play store, you need to be able to write to the system file system, to do this you would either need to root and push google apps (gapps) via adb, or replace the stock recovery with a custom recovery which will allow you flash .zips that are not signed by ZTE.
Installing clockworkmod recovery, for example would allow you to do this,
There are examples of clockwork recovery here http://forum.xda-developers.com/firefox-os/general/zte-c-roms-cw-recovery-50-t2806173 and here http://www.modaco.com/topic/373213-recovery-clockworkmod-6050-for-zte-open-c-kis-3/
And TWRP recovery here http://www.modaco.com/topic/373288-recovery-twrp-2710-for-zte-open-c-kis-3/
The second clockwork and the twrp recovery are by a developer named Konstat who has uploaded all his sources to github https://github.com/KonstaT/android_device_zte_kis3
Konstat has also started work on getting a stable version of Cyanogenmod 11 on the ZTE Open C, please see here http://www.modaco.com/topic/373214-devrom149-cyanogenmod-11-android-444-for-zte-open-c-kis-3/
I apologise for linking to a different website but until we can ask xda to create a zte open c forum, I do not really have an option :crying:
OK, I just got an Amazon Fire HD 6 for free from a friend brand new so I figured this would be a great thing to learn rooting android and other things. No cost = no loss if I screw it all up.
Basically my goal is jut to root it to get it to be more like a regular old android tablet and not to have all the Amazon crap constantly running in the background sending all my info to Amazon every minute of every day. From reading here this seems possible. Please tell me if It's not.
Background:
I know quite a bit about PCs running Windows since 3.0 and have dabbled with Linux and Apache off and on over the years but I am by no means an expert. Advanced amateur might be better.
The tablet is running Fire OS 5.1.2. I don't know what it had when I first turned it on but I had no idea what I was going to do with it so I let it update itself until it got to the current 5.1.2.
I tried reading some of the tutorials but they seem way over my head as they seem to assume a knowledge of certain acronyms that I am not yet familiar with.
This is what I think I know so far. Please tell me if I'm wrong...
1. It is not possible to root 5.1.2. I probably should have left it at whatever it was when I got it which was probably 4.5.x.
2. Because of #1 above the only way for me to root this is to downgrade to 4.5.x.
Do I have that right so far? Because if I don't have at least that right then I am way off, so let's start there.
My goal would be for this thread to become a real "how to root your HD 6" for real total newbs like me. Step by step on what to download, from where, what is a TWRP what do you use it for, what is an ADB and what do you use it for, from turning the thing on to ending up with a nicely rooted tablet.
In case anyone else wants to know what happened and how I accomplished all, the answers are in page 6 of this topic ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-hd/help/help-thread-question-noob-friendly-t3206776
Here is a full tutorial in one place...
First off these instructions are for the Amazon Fire HD 6 gen4 running Fire OS 5.1.2 only. Will it work on other things? Who knows. Will it work on another of the exact same tablet? I have no idea. Would it work on this same tablet if I had to do it over again? Could be ... but then again, ya never know. So proceed at your own risk. All I know is that it worked for me here today on this particular tablet at this time and I hope I never have to do it again.
All of these instructions can be found at the following link at about page 6 of that topic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-hd/help/help-thread-question-noob-friendly-t3206776/page6
1: First I installed the USB driver from Amazon at the following link:
https://developer.amazon.com/appsan...etting-up-your-kindle-fire-tablet-for-testing
and then I downloaded the ADB SDK tools from links from this tutorial:
http://www.howtogeek.com/125769/how...roid-debug-bridge-utility/?PageSpeed=noscript
After enabling USB debugging on the device I had ADB ability.
2. Downloaded the Kingroot version 4.8.5 apk from here and ran it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/one-click-root-tool-android-2-x-5-0-t3107461
Let it go to town doing it's thing. Afterwards it claimed success and said that I was rooted.
3. Ran the following commands given by DoLooper from above xda post to disable OTA update:
Open a CMD window from folder with adb.exe by right clicking in that folder and holding down the shift key. Then run these commands one at a time:
adb -d shell "su -c 'pm disable com.amazon.otaverifier'"
adb -d shell "su -c 'pm disable com.amazon.device.software.ota'"
adb -d shell "su -c 'pm disable com.settings.systemupdates'"
Tried to rename OTA file from DoLooper instructions using Simple Explorer with root priviledges (not ES) - fail - does not seem to want to rename the file for some reason.
So at this point I was successfully rooted. But I basically had a virus running on my tablet called Kingroot . I checked using another app and I saw that it was constantly connected to China. Bad? I don't know but certainly does not making me feel all warm and fuzzy so next step was to get rid of Kingroot. Problem is that if you uninstall it it sets you back to unrooted default. So ... read on.
4. Installed Terminal Emulator for Android from http://www.apkmirror.com/
6. Uploaded the 4 files from the zip file from wolfdroid from second link in sd_shadow post in that same topic. Can be found here:
http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2015/05/How-to-Remove-Replace-KingUser-KingRoot-with-SuperSU.html
7. ran the 2 commands from wolfdroid website using terminal emulator.
This removed Kingroot and left me rooted. Then I found an updated version of SuperSU and updated it too. So now I have a tablet that is rooted and I can install apps that require root access. Also I was able to uninstall some Amazon apps, disable others and basically stop it from phoning home.
BTW, I didn't recommend disabling com.settings.systemupdates. They do this on the 2015 Fires, but I have not used it on either the 2014s or 2015.
Yes, I apologize. You are correct. You did not suggest that one. That one I did get from the other topic. However, I did it and I don't see any negative effects so far.
But you know more than I so is there any reason you could see toward not doing that one?
Hello ive not done any guides before but since i had to search all over to try find out what i was looking for and stumbled across a lot of good information and thought id share it. None of this was my findings but there isn't anything clear on how to actually accomplish this on a Fire stick.
Im going to attempt to share how i have managed.
This guide assumes you already know how to transfer files to your stick.
First off, current Fire stick os is 5.2.1.0 and is rootable with Kingoroot.
https://root-apk.kingoapp.com
1. Download Kingoroot and ADB to your Fire stick, do this whichever way you normally get apk/files onto your Fire stick.
2. Download Kingoroot superuser and ADB to your Fire stick.
3. Run the Kingoroot tool and let it finish, when you have root, install Kingo roots Superuser. (If you install this before rooting it wont make any difference).
Now you should have a rooted Fire stick on 5.2.1.0 with Kingoroots SuperUser.
Now its time to downgrade your Fire stick. This file was provided by AFTVnews over at another thread and cuki3r3k83bln accomplished downgrade on the thread also so please leave thanks for them as before he posted the file and information i had no idea it was possible. Im suggesting to download the 5.0.5 file as i did because this was when firestarter worked with home button detection.
Download Fire Stick os 5.0.5
http://amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuit...te-kindle-montoya-54.5.3.7_user_537174420.bin
Once you have it downloaded rename the downloaded file to update.bin.
Im going to explain how i did it, i know there is many other variations on how to accomplish this and im not too familiar with adb commands but the way i will show is the way it worked for me.
We need to transfer the downloaded and renamed update.bin to the Fire stick so if you would like to transfer it with apps to fire or through command or any other variation thats fine but ill show commands used from windows laptop using adbLink.
Please note, if your using a different method to transfer you will have to slightly modify step 5 on where your update.bin is stored so cd /sdcard/download. if your update.bin is stored in download folder.
Another note is to make sure your file name is correct, mine was named update.bin.bin rather than update.bin this was fine just make sure to name it correctly or you will have to modify step 6 and step 8.
1. Open up adbLink and connect your device.
2. Push the update.bin to the sdcard. (this takes quite alot of time as your pushing 311mb file so be patient)
3. Once pushed you need to open up ADB Shell.
4. Run the command: su
5. Run the command: cd /sdcard
6. Run the command: mv ./update.bin /cache/
If you get an error about no space on device do the following:
Run the command rm -f /cache/*.bin
Run the command rm -f /cache/*.zip
Run the command exit
Run the command exit then reopen ADB Shell in adbLink repeat step 6.
7. Run the command cd /cache/recovery
8. Run the command echo --update_package=/cache/update.bin > command
9. Run the command reboot recovery
Your Fire stick should automatically start the downgrade and take 10 minutes or so.
As soon as its finished go back to your Kingoroot app and re-root your Fire stick. Then block updates (method 1) using AFTVnews guide at:
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-block-software-updates-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick/
You should now be on 5.0.5 rooted and have updates blocked
All your apps should be still intact. Make sure you uninstall appstarter/firestopper and reinstall firestarter 3.2.3 (if you use it)
Then follow AFTVnews guide on how to re-enable it here:
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-cont...v-and-fire-tv-stick-software-version-5-0-5-1/
Please give the credit deserved to @AFTVnews.com and @cuki3r3k83bln
Its suggested all over to hold off before doing anything that could brick the device until rbox releases a recovery.
Please do not use any type of Su modifying tool/script/apk eg: SuperSume as these do not work and you will end up with a small brick.
Also its been pointed out to me by @deanr1977 that if your going to use this guide and decide to update Fire Stick os in the future, it maybe safer to unroot it first.
With that out of the way please excuse the bad layout of the guide as im no expert and would like to just share my experience.
Would I be able to go back to 5.2.1.0 once custom recovery and rom is released?
FireTho1 said:
Would I be able to go back to 5.2.1.0 once custom recovery and rom is released?
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i cant see any reason why not, either grab the 5.2.1.0 .bin file and follow the guide using that or let it automatically update after re-enabling updates.
Are there any reasons for downgrading to 5.0.5? Does it have any advantages?
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Are there any reasons for downgrading to 5.0.5? Does it have any advantages?
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As far as im aware upto now, it seems that Firestarter home button detection works as it should, and firmware after this Firestarter will not work with home button detection.
Which is a big thing for me personally as i only use Firestick for netflix and kodi and its much easier to launch from within Firestarter.
Its good to know that the process of upgrading/downgrading is applicable to Fire stick as you never know what Amazon will try to take from you.
You sir are my hero. Kudos for the tutorial!
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i cant see any reason why not, either grab the 5.2.1.0 .bin file and follow the guide using that or let it automatically update after re-enabling updates.
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Its not recommended to let it auto update from root, unroot first then re-enable the update progress.
Also please can you note in your guide that its not recommended to try to swap the Su for Chainfires Su with the Super Sume or Super Sumepro app because so many people on this forum have bricked with this method & if any new users try your way & after want to unroot/swap method after the first boot they could have a non working device.
Ive not tried this guide myself (i dont need too) but if its working fine this info would be good to have here.
deanr1977 said:
Its not recommended to let it auto update from root, unroot first then re-enable the update progress.
Also please can you note in your guide that its not recommended to try to swap the Su for Chainfires Su with the Super Sume or Super Sumepro app because so many people on this forum have bricked with this method & if any new users try your way & after want to unroot/swap method after the first boot they could have a non working device.
Ive not tried this guide myself (i dont need too) but if its working fine this info would be good to have here.
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Fair point about pointing out about the brickable and dangerous su swapping methods with supersu me etc.
I will add a mention about it after the line that reads:
'Its suggested all over to hold off before doing anything that could brick the device until rbox releases a recovery.'
As for not recommended to auto update while rooted, ive had 2 sticks and a Fire Tv 2 auto update from 5.0.5 to 5.0.5.1 and then to 5.2.1.0 when my router was reset, (im sure im not the only one from what ive read either).
But since im a helping type of guy ill add this also.
Ok mate, just going by what's been said from the AFTVNews & Amazon Firestick forums. Glad you are including this thanks, Its just some only skim through the threads & read only the parts they want to so if this is included it may cut down on the "I've bricked my Amazon device please help threads" which clog up the forum.
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i'm trying to downgrade to the point where display mirroring worked on windows devices, this is before 5.0.5, can i use this method to downgrade to another bin before 5.0.5?
sins07 said:
i'm trying to downgrade to the point where display mirroring worked on windows devices, this is before 5.0.5, can i use this method to downgrade to another bin before 5.0.5?
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Id take a stab and say if your stick originally came with a firmware below 5.0.5 but I honestly do not know as ive not tried but I cant see why it wouldnt work. You can go from 5.2.1.0 to 5.0.5.1 or to 5.0.5 so id imagine so.
What features have been removed by 5.0.5? Im interested myself and may try this myself if there is features I could use.
Amazing! I can't believe this was hard to find as all the news out there say you can only root the stick using a hardware mod.
I downgraded and rooted both my Sticks. Installed Firestarter 3.2.3, installed Seeder, removed unneeded processes from running and these things are super quick now. You still have to load the crappy slow Amazon launcher to keep the settings but oh well. Nicely done, now I hope a recovery option comes out and I can mess around further . Heatsink and overclocking anyone? lol
@vulcan4d recovery & prerooted rom is being worked on at the moment by rbox in this forum
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vulcan4d said:
Amazing! I can't believe this was hard to find as all the news out there say you can only root the stick using a hardware mod.
I downgraded and rooted both my Sticks. Installed Firestarter 3.2.3, installed Seeder, removed unneeded processes from running and these things are super quick now. You still have to load the crappy slow Amazon launcher to keep the settings but oh well. Nicely done, now I hope a recovery option comes out and I can mess around further . Heatsink and overclocking anyone? lol
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Can I ask what processes you removed/stopped and how you accomplished this?
Id like to do the same on 2 of my sticks.
sconnyuk said:
Can I ask what processes you removed/stopped and how you accomplished this?
Id like to do the same on 2 of my sticks.
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I would like to give credit to this post for removing unneeded services:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/help/root-disabling-apps-services-bloat-t3325333
I only found a few from the list but that list was meant for a Fire TV so I'm sure there is more running. Just launch ADB Shell in ADBFire/Link and type pm disable <service_name>
vulcan4d said:
I would like to give credit to this post for removing unneeded services:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/help/root-disabling-apps-services-bloat-t3325333
I only found a few from the list but that list was meant for a Fire TV so I'm sure there is more running. Just launch ADB Shell in ADBFire/Link and type pm disable <service_name>
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Thanks ive disabled them as per the guide you linked to. Can I further ask what the program seeder does and whether to have it set to aggressive or not?
Thanks for the info.
@sconnyuk i've downgraded successfully kingo root'ed stick 5.2.1->5.0.5 . But funny thing was under root shell command "wipe data " .It wiped device clean but root still stays on . Got OTA disabled and my other king root 5.0.5 stick will have similar treatment .
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@sconnyuk i've downgraded successfully kingo root'ed stick 5.2.1->5.0.5 . But funny thing was under root shell command "wipe data " .It wiped device clean but root still stays on . Got OTA disabled and my other king root 5.0.5 stick will have similar treatment .
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You will need to unroot it for root to go.
Kingoroot has the option to do this if its what you want.
You need mouse toggle for fire tv to navigate to the 'in app' menu icon if not plug fire stick into pc and run Windows version of Kingoroot to unroot.
Interesting, I just bought a 3rd Amazon stick to root. After running KingRoot, I've noticed I did not need to install KingUser at all. If you launch KingRoot again it allows you to launch KingoUser which is the same thing. I'm assuming that KingUser is just an updated version of what KingRoot already installs.
Sconnyuk, I checked all the boxes and chose Moderate. This was also mentioned in the XDA forums however sadly I cannot find the post anymore. Seeder is an application that has been around for a while which improves the response time on Android devices. There is a lot of technical details into how it works, but the point is the Amazon stick is not the fastest thing in the world and anything helps. Give it a try and see for yourself.
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Id take a stab and say if your stick originally came with a firmware below 5.0.5 but I honestly do not know as ive not tried but I cant see why it wouldnt work. You can go from 5.2.1.0 to 5.0.5.1 or to 5.0.5 so id imagine so.
What features have been removed by 5.0.5? Im interested myself and may try this myself if there is features I could use.
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Miracast display mirroring became non-compliant with windows systems, it still works fine with android.
Hey, new user here. Sorry if this is miscategorised.
I have a very simple issue. I have a GT-I9305, recently rooted with some weird Android Terminal commands and a .zip file I found online. No issue with rooting. I did a root check and used root to uninstall Knox.
Issue is that beforehand I tried to root with KingRoot and I didn't know it would automatically download its own SU (probably should have been more cautious). I want to use Super SU instead but I can't because after some research, there'll be so conflict between these two. So further research suggests I need to do some deep replacement between these two.
I've tried several methods already.
An app called SuperSu Me required higher Android version, so that was a strike for me. The one with the commands with the mrw file did not work (just threw up a whole list of failures and errors), and another appears to be working with Kit Kat only (I'm on 4.3). Another limitation I have is that my computer is garbage and probably won't run Odin or whatever flashing thing, so that rules out another horde of solutions.
Further, Super SU did not update binary, which most websites suggested it will do. It tries to do it, then regurgitates an error message after five minutes.
So I was just wondering if there is some obscure way beyond the second Google search page which might help me out here, to replace King SU with SuperSU. After all, the root method I used in the first place wasn't exactly conventional.
Just wanted to ask around here before I simply unroot and forget about the whole business. Been lurking around here unregistered and you guys have been very helpful, so now I guess I'm starting a topic of my own.
Good day all,
at work I had re-ignited life of a collegue's old Asus tablet by re-flashing his ROM. In all enthousiasm they gave me a company's tablet: VT500-E which is a industrial-like tablet just to do inspections and handle forms.
However the device OS is Android ICS, and looking at its specs it could also handle apps like Excel etc just as well. This is also what is desired along with some tweaks for extra performance and battery-life gaining.
But while playing around with this device the following obstacles come forward:
- No possibility for reboot into fastboot (hardware keys 0 result, 'adb reboot recovery' or 'adb reboot fastboot' just reboots regulary)
- No possibility for reboot into recovery
Kingroot did manage to root the device, I checked its succes with
Code:
adb shell
Code:
adb su
but the device needs Play Store (never been present by default) so I would like to flash gapps. So far no luck, nor much support on this device online.
Anybody have any experience with the VT500-E?
Did you search official roms with GMS ?
sorry to bring back from the grave, but I have 20 of these tablets and wanted to do the same... did you have any luck?
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sorry to bring back from the grave, but I have 20 of these tablets and wanted to do the same... did you have any luck?
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Hello, I am in the same situation. I managed to install the play store, it works, but can not download the applications:
- install Google Framework Services (com.google.android.gsf_4.0.4-338691-15_minAPI15 (nodpi) .apk)
- install the google account manager (com.google.android.gsf.login_4.4.4-1227136-19_minAPI8 (nodpi) _apkmirror.com.apk)
- Install googles play services (com.google.android.gms_14.8.49_ (000302-231258850) -14849001_minAPI14 (armeabi-v7a) (160dpi) _apkmirror.com.apk)
- Install Google play store (com.android.vending_9.2.32-all_0_PR_189106691-80923200_minAPI14 (armeabi-v7a) (240,320,480dpi) _apkmirror.com.apk)