New firmware update for aftv!!

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deanemj

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Xavier000 said:
Lost it!!!


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Damn! That's a bummer. Hopefully (probably?) jcase's exploit will be released soon to get you back up and running. Did you forget to disable the OTA updates using the terminal?

Maybe try running TR again just to see if it still works?
 
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Xavier000

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Wow!!used towelroot and worked again with the new update!!! Stickmount too!!! Everithing is more faster and stable now!! Will keep testing to see changes


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deanemj

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Wow!!used towelroot and worked again with the new update!!! Stickmount too!!! Everithing is more faster and stable now!! Will keep testing to see changes


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Whew! Happy to hear it. I'm gonna hold off on updating but I'm glad your box is freed once again. :)
 
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Xavier000

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51.1.1.0. User 511069920 Everithing is faster, no more buffering, fps way better, im surprised about the buffering part!!smoother


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Xavier000

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I did not, was going to do it but when i got home there was an update avaliable


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Hmmmm.....wonder if it is worth updating for that smoother performance or easier to buy another ftv for upstairs lol....

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rbox

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Whoever got the update can try searching for amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuite.net in /sdcard/logcat.txt
 
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rbox said:
Whoever got the update can try searching for amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuite.net in /sdcard/logcat.txt
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I'm pretty sure that was only updated on the launch day ota. For example, my /sdcard/logcat.text showed no signs off the second ota URL. So maybe they disabled that logging after the first update?

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retroben

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Is there a way to get parts of the update excluding the root patches?

Will JCase have anything to say about it?

Also,give us the bootloader unlocker ASAP stat!
...Please?
 
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    Got it! I've been pumping my Fire TV traffic through Wireshark AND dumping logcat in real time all morning.

    Software Update URL is: http://amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuit...ueller-ota-51.1.1.0_user_511069920-signed.bin

    The file gets downloaded directly to /cache, so you could try putting it there and restarting to see if that triggers it to install.
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    Luxferro said:
    I tried changing it in the default.prop in the recovery, and dd'd it back, but it didn't boot the recovery. I guess the unpack/repack tools I used don't actually work correctly. But at least I was able to dd back the original recovery and that still works :)

    know of any tools that actually work to decompile the recovery.img and then rebuild the image correctly?
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    Not sure if the locked bootloader allows unsigned recovery images. But any android kernel unpack/pack script should do it. I've never tried repacking a kernel/recovery before.

    EDIT: So I just tried repacking it myself and I got nothing.

    EDIT2: Well that was interesting. If I unpack the recovery image and repack it without changing anything in the ramdisk, it works. So I'm going to have to experiment a little.

    I am using bootimg_tools_7.8.13.zip and to repack I am using the command:

    Code: 
    mkbootimg --kernel recovery/zImage --ramdisk recovery/ramdisk.cpio.gz --cmdline 'androidboot.hardware=qcom user_debug=31 msm_rtb.filter=0x3F ehci-hcd.park=3 maxcpus=2' --base 0x80200000 --pagesize 2048 --ramdiskaddr 0x82200000 -o recovery-new.img

    EDIT3: Ok, so if I use the original ramdisk that was unpacked, it works. If I try to repack the extracted ramdisk it fails. I did notice my repacked ramdisk was a lot bigger, so I'm going to try to figure out what the differnece is.
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    Mine updated. Here's the new stuff I notice.

    A Prime Video tab has been added above movies. Sections include

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    Music has been added above photos. Gives you access to everything in your Cloud Player. Voice search works. Doesn't include Prime Music content. Every section has a shuffle all songs feature.

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    do we know if amazon updated the AFTV bootloader?

    I only saw in this thread that root is possible in the new update, but not a single word about bootloader. We know that there is a exploit out there to unlock AFTV bootloader, so i think that until we have confirmation that amazon didn't patch recovery i suggest not update the box...
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    fireTVnews.com said:
    Got it! I've been pumping my Fire TV traffic through Wireshark AND dumping logcat in real time all morning.

    Software Update URL is: http://amzdigitaldownloads.edgesuit...ueller-ota-51.1.1.0_user_511069920-signed.bin

    The file gets downloaded directly to /cache, so you could try putting it there and restarting to see if that triggers it to install.
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    I think the best way to try to manually update it would be to put the download in /cache/ then adb reboot recovery. The recovery only seems to look for an update file at /cache, so that will probably manually update it.

    edit: I'm not going to try it just yet, since I'm not sure if I want to update just yet. But I may try this with the older OTA and see if it allows us to flash back to older builds as well.
    edit2: I didn't work for me with the first OTA (seeing if I could downgrade). recovery said update was not successful. One thing to note, if you chmod 777 cache, upon next reboot it will be reset back to stock permissions.
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