[NIGHTLY/KERNEL][USER] UNOFFICIAL CM9 + 3.0.x Kernel for K-Fire [3.0.31+ 06-28]

loki154 · Apr 21, 2012

After flashing the #6 kernel, my kindle won't charge at all on usb or the ac charger :/ its completely dead with no charging light.

bi2o · Apr 21, 2012

Hey Loki,

USB does charge but it's very slow. AC should work though.
Plug it with the AC adapter for a few minutes and it should be fine.

loki154 · Apr 21, 2012

Idk, its been plugged into both and the charging light never comes on.

nekonosuna · Apr 21, 2012

First of all, great work. The #3 ROM with #6 kernel is already the smoothest experience I've had with the Fire.

For reference, my observations so far:

HWA mostly works in browser flash, twitchtv app, YouTube app, MX video player. Sometimes videos in YouTube or MX will not start and cause FC.
Charging using wall charger works fine, but the LED indicator will only show that its charging while its not sleeping. While sleeping, the charging LED will come on for a second or two at somewhat regular intervals. This might be related to what's been observed, namely
High battery drawn during sleep. It's nearly as high as during use.
I have no screen striping/flickering/banding issues whatsoever
Google Earth doesn't work

Installed by:
Boot to TWRP 2.1, wipe cache/dalvik/system/factory reset, install #3 ROM and #6 kernel immediately after. Boot to system, then back to recovery, flash gapps, boot to system. All lovely

---------- Post added at 06:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:40 PM ----------

loki154 said:
Idk, its been plugged into both and the charging light never comes on.

Maybe it's not really powered down. Try unplugging from charger, then press the power button for 20 seconds, then let go of the power button and plug in the charger. It should come on immediately.

Krunk_Kracker · Apr 21, 2012

Trojan38 said:
OMFG I have exactly the same issue . That's funny but quite unsecure.

Nah its not insecure. It won't allow you to login unless you know the password. Seems that Tapatalks servers use the MAC address of the device to keep track. As soon as the Mac address issue gets resolved, it will stop doing it.

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk 2

Wojei · Apr 21, 2012

TheKid2 said:
Anyone wishing to restore there MAC Address back to factory.
I had documented my original MAC addresses.

In terminal emulator/or adb shell (wifi turned off)

su
mount -o remount rw /system
calibrator set nvs_mac /system/etc/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

You should backup original wl1271-nvs.bin before using this method.
if you have problem can restore file and reboot.

If someone could verify this for me I will edit/delete post if neccessary.

Thanks

I tried doing the steps you've described and now my mac address is no longer 00:d2:8b:43:9f:fd. It works!

jmcoffey · Apr 21, 2012

How exactly does one use USB OTG? I would like to use my kindle to take notes in class but would rather use an actual keyboard than the touch one. Anyone?

Sent from my myTouch_4G_Slide using XDA

neilrl79 · Apr 21, 2012

loki154 said:
Idk, its been plugged into both and the charging light never comes on.

With my fire powered all the way down (power button 20 sec press) the charging light was not on while plugged into AC power but it fully charged.

KaLiBLeeK · Apr 21, 2012

neilrl79 said:
With my fire powered all the way down (power button 20 sec press) the charging light was not on while plugged into AC power but it fully charged.

Ditto (kinda?); Left my KF plugged into a wall charger overnight, but left it on. Woke up in the morning and it was fully charged. The charging light was behaving weirdly, so I just checked in the battery section of the setting to make sure it was charging, and indeed it was.

And I'm going to assume if people are having "banding" issues with their KF is not the same as what I've seen the entire time I've owned my KF; if I leave a page/app open for a bit that has a white background and dark text, images, once I leave that page/app, the image hangs around for a bit (ghosts? whatever), but then goes around after a bit of use. This has happened on every ROM/kernel I've owned, regardless of display brightness.

TBH, for what I use my KF for, the kernel as it stands right now is pretty much perfect. Really amazed by all the progress that's been made over the past week or so. Kudos to Hash/Intersect/etc etc.

Hashcode · Apr 21, 2012

The MAC address issue is because of the nvs.bin that was included in the #3 rom (it has a preset MAC in it). Looks like the other CM7 rom fixed this by NOT including the nvs.bin file and wrapping the module loader binary with a script that builds a new file if it doesn't exist and then runs the module loader.

I'll try and get this into the next full ROM update.

Sent from my XT894 using XDA

pbailey212 · Apr 21, 2012

There seems to be some success with this, so if you are having battery drain issues turn off your touch sounds and unlock sounds. Audiodriver_1 seems to be constantly starting while the phone is sleeping which is consuming power. Turning these sounds off seems to fix the problem for now

Sent from my LG-VM670 using Tapatalk

lovejoy777 · Apr 21, 2012

how do I get my original Mac address?

Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda premium

bi2o · Apr 21, 2012

pbailey212 said:
There seems to be some success with this, so if you are having battery drain issues turn off your touch sounds and unlock sounds. Audiodriver_1 seems to be constantly starting while the phone is sleeping which is consuming power. Turning these sounds off seems to fix the problem for now

Sent from my LG-VM670 using Tapatalk

I'll give it a try and report.

TheKid2 · Apr 21, 2012

lovejoy777 said:
how do I get my original Mac address?

Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda premium

You can change it as long as you know your original MAC Address.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25130845&postcount=458

Shahpur.Azizpour · Apr 21, 2012

I noticed that the wall charger will not work unless you plug it in while the screen is on. So keeping the screen on initially I was able to charge without problems.

lovejoy777 · Apr 22, 2012

sorry you miss understood, I'm unsure how to find my original mac address, do I have to flash a stock rom to be able to see it?

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TheKid2 · Apr 22, 2012

lovejoy777 said:
sorry you miss understood, I'm unsure how to find my original mac address, do I have to flash a stock rom to be able to see it?

Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using xda premium

You can load CM7 rom or backup of whatever rom you were using, or restore to stock.

gadgetman13 · Apr 22, 2012

TheKid2 said:
You can change it as long as you know your original MAC Address.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25130845&postcount=458

I'm not sure that's necessarily completely true. I don't think you need to know the original MAC address.

I blindly issued the command in the above post WITH THE XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX left as 'X's. Obviously erroneous input to the set command, but what the heck, it was worth a shot since I didn't know my original MAC address. What did I have to lose by trying, I already had the .bk file.

If I now do a

Code:

calibrator get nvs_mac /system/etc/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin

(note, that's a get not a set) I get a different MAC address than if I do a

Code:

calibrator get nvs_mac /system/etc/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin.bk

(the backup file I made.)

It would appear to me, that if you don't assign a proper address (or per the help even leave out the MAC address completely), it might read the original MAC address from the network card. Or maybe it's just making one up - though I hope not. The help for the calibrator command indicates that the MAC address is an optional argument if I'm reading it correctly:

Code:

Usage:	calibrator [options] command
Options:
	--debug		enable netlink debugging
	--version	show version (0.71)
Commands:
...
	set nvs_mac <nvs file> [<mac addr>]

TheKid2 · Apr 22, 2012

gadgetman13 said:
I'm not sure that's necessarily completely true. I don't think you need to know the original MAC address.

I blindly issued the command in the above post WITH THE XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX left as 'X's. Obviously erroneous input to the set command, but what the heck, it was worth a shot since I didn't know my original MAC address. What did I have to lose by trying, I already had the .bk file.

If I now do a

Code:

calibrator get nvs_mac /system/etc/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin

(note, that's a get not a set) I get a different MAC address than if I do a

Code:

calibrator get nvs_mac /system/etc/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl1271-nvs.bin.bk

(the backup file I made.)

It would appear to me, that if you don't assign a proper address (or per the help even leave out the MAC address completely), it might read the original MAC address from the network card. Or maybe it's just making one up - though I hope not. The help for the calibrator command indicates that the MAC address is an optional argument if I'm reading it correctly:

Code:

Usage: calibrator [options] command Options: --debug enable netlink debugging --version show version (0.71) Commands: ... set nvs_mac <nvs file> [<mac addr>]

It will randomly generate a new MAC if one is not set. Here is the original link where I found the info. It appears the hardware does not actually have a burned in address, but is set using calibration utility and stored in nvs file.

http://omappedia.org/wiki/WLAN_Calibration

foxdog66 · Apr 22, 2012

I used all X's and tapatalk is now fixed for me . Thanks

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