Are you unlocked, TWRP installed and rooted?
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Xposed works for anyone insterested...
Fire 7 (2019, mustang) unbrick, downgrade, unlock & root
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Are you unlocked, TWRP installed and rooted?
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Xposed works for anyone insterested...
you can most likely use dd from twrp terminal to make backups if desired. Also should be able to use a script to do it. Much like the one in this post.
Backup with script and temp root
Hi All,
I'm getting stuck at the following section, I've tried restarting the process but no avail:
[2019-07-13 18:29:13.839961] Waiting for bootrom
[2019-07-13 18:29:28.651393] Found port = /dev/ttyACM0
[2019-07-13 18:29:28.652066] Handshake
[2019-07-13 18:29:28.652945] Disable watchdog
* * * Remove the short and press Enter * * *
[2019-07-13 18:29:34.920881] Init crypto engine
[2019-07-13 18:29:34.951033] Disable caches
[2019-07-13 18:29:34.951641] Disable bootrom range checks
The screen just sits like that nothing else. Is there any debugging that I can collect?
I'm getting stuck at the following section, I've tried restarting the process but no avail:
[2019-07-13 18:29:13.839961] Waiting for bootrom
[2019-07-13 18:29:28.651393] Found port = /dev/ttyACM0
[2019-07-13 18:29:28.652066] Handshake
[2019-07-13 18:29:28.652945] Disable watchdog
* * * Remove the short and press Enter * * *
[2019-07-13 18:29:34.920881] Init crypto engine
[2019-07-13 18:29:34.951033] Disable caches
[2019-07-13 18:29:34.951641] Disable bootrom range checks
The screen just sits like that nothing else. Is there any debugging that I can collect?
Okay so I got up to the `dd` part of the tutorial (was doing software method). Didn't continue the tutorial after for a little while because I had to leave the house, brought the tablet with me. I hard-rebooted it because something wasn't working in an app and now my tablet doesn't respond to anything (holding power for 40s, plugging in to power, plugging into computer). Do I have to do hardware method now?
The not responding , is the expected condition, it is covered in step 6a on the guide.
You should be able to continue the guide at that point
Hey! I ran the bootrom script with my tablet plugged into my laptop. It hangs on “waiting for bootrom”. What do I do from here?
It says to plug in USB when it says waiting for boot rom. So try that way, not with it plugged whole time
Not sure.
Didn’t work :/
I plugged in the USB cord after running the script and it hung at waiting for bootrom :/
Any other ideas?
Well. Only what I can see from the op. And that is to use the hardware method. Open device and use a short, while plugging in
With root you can do most any app uninstall if you want. But carefully, some apps should not be removed
Use this guide as reference. There is a section for mustang.
https://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/general/root-remove-forever-lockscreen-ads-t3824551
As for playstore. Maybe because you have twrp, (please seek some more input first) maybe can try to flash gapps
A reminder that today is Amazon Prime day and these tablets are on sale for $30 each, or two for $50. At $25 each, they are basically disposable. Also now I can have a tablet the same color as one of those green Acer PCs from the late 90s.
I greatly enjoy my Fire 7 austin tablet with ggow's Lineage 12 ROM. I don't have to worry about taking it outside or into my garage, unlike my expensive tablets.
I greatly enjoy my Fire 7 austin tablet with ggow's Lineage 12 ROM. I don't have to worry about taking it outside or into my garage, unlike my expensive tablets.
Just ordered one for $29.99 plus $10 off for signing up for prime and using the Prime app. Will try this unlocking and root when it comes in. Thx for the post OP!
Just rooted my Prime day tablet. Thanks for this. Trying to be clever, I put all the files needed onto a micro SD card, but in TWRP it was not possible to mount an SD card. It lists 'Storage' three times under 'Mount' but none of these are mountable. I was lucky though, if you connect the SD card using a USB OTG cable and USB SD card adapter, 'Storage 1' appears under 'Mount' and this can be accessed by navigating into 'auto1-1' in the File Manager.
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50Make sure to read this guide completely before starting.
You will lose all data on the tablet, make a backup of important data before you start.
What you need:
- a Linux installation. Don't use a VM! Use a live USB, if you don't have Linux installed, but don't use a virtual machine.
- a microusb cable to connect your tablet to the PC
- (if you go with hw option) some way to open the tablet (pry tool, opening picks, etc)
- (if you go with hw option) something conductive (metal tweezers, a paper clip, a piece of wire, etc)
- (if you go with sw option) mtk-su from https://xdaforums.com/android/development/amazing-temp-root-mediatek-armv8-t3922213
- amonet-mustang.zip from this post
- finalize.zip from this post
- update-kindle-NS6312_user_1827_0002517050244.bin: https://fireos-tablet-src.s3.amazon...ate-kindle-NS6312_user_1827_0002517050244.bin
- Magisk-v19.3.zip: https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/v19.3/Magisk-v19.3.zip
Install python3, PySerial, adb and fastboot. For Debian/Ubuntu something like this should work "sudo apt install python3 python3-serial android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot".
0. Disconnect the tablet and all other Android devices from the PC.
1. Back up whatever important data you have on the device and perform a complete factory reset of the tablet. When going through the initial setup, don't connect to a network (see below on how to do that).
2. Disable or uninstall ModemManager from your Linux installation
3. At this point you need to get your tablet into the bootrom download mode. There are two ways it can be achieved.
a) If your tablet works, you can use the software method (which doesn't require opening the tablet) or the hardware method. Note that if something goes horribly wrong, you might still be required to open up the tablet.
b) If your tablet doesn't boot (bricked), you can only use the hardware method
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Software method:
This will get you into bootrom mode by obtaining temporary root and temporarily bricking the device.
1. Download mtk-su from https://xdaforums.com/android/development/amazing-temp-root-mediatek-armv8-t3922213
2. Enable developer mode and USB debugging on the tablet
3. Unzip the mtk-su archive
4. Transfer the executable to your tablet: "adb push arm/mtk-su /data/local/tmp"
5. Run "adb shell"
6. Keep the screen on and run the following commands in the shell on the device:
Code:cd /data/local/tmp ./mtk-su getenforce # Just to confirm it says Permissive echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0boot0/force_ro dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0boot0 bs=512 count=8
This is the sort of output you should see for that step:
Don't close the console just yet.
Hardware method:
This will get you into bootrom mode by opening up the tablet and shorting a point to the ground.
1. Shut your device down and disconnect it from USB
2. Use a pry tool to remove the back shell from the tablet. Start at the bottom and work your way up. There are no cables between the back shell and the motherboard.
3. You will need to get something conductive and temporarily connect a point to the ground. A point suggested by @ggow is: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=79683131&postcount=22. You will need to pop up the metallic shield to access it. Alternatively, there are multiple points on the back of the PCB which also work (marked as CLK/CMD/DAT0).
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4. At this point if you went with software method, you should have a root shell open, and if you went with the hardware method you should have a capacitor or a testpoint grounded to the shield.
5. Now, open another terminal on your PC, extract amonet-mustang.zip, navigate to it, and run `sudo ./bootrom-step.sh`. It should print "Waiting for the bootrom".
6.
a) For the software method, you should already have the USB cable plugged in. Type "reboot" in the first terminal (the one you that's running "adb shell"). [If you're trying this for the second time because it didn't work for the first time, you won't have an "adb shell" terminal. In that case, just plugging the USB cable in should be enough.]
b) For the hardware method, ensure the short is applied and then plug in the USB cable.
7. You should see the following device appear in your "dmesg" log:
Code:[1141765.113884] usb 3-1.4.3.1: USB disconnect, device number 59 [1141783.057101] usb 3-1.4.3.1: new full-speed USB device number 60 using xhci_hcd [1141783.226498] usb 3-1.4.3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8d, idProduct=0003, bcdDevice= 1.00 [1141783.226502] usb 3-1.4.3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [1141783.506877] cdc_acm 3-1.4.3.1:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
This *must* be the device you see. If you see a "preloader" device instead, your short probably didn't work (for the hw method), or your system inexinexplicably didn't brick (for the sw method). Unplug everything and try again. If the tablet doesn't shut down, you might need to open it up and disconnect the battery.
8. The script should now tell you to remove the short. If you went with hardware method, you do need to remove it first. Otherwise, just press Enter.
9. The script will now proceed to downgrade your device and flash some essential files. Just let it be, it will take about 4 minutes. You should see the following output:
If the script freezes at some point, you will have to restart it. Terminate the script, then immediately run `sudo ./bootrom-step.sh` again. The exploit it set up so that after about 40 seconds of inactivity it would reboot your device and drop you back into the bootrom mode, which the script is waiting for. If you cannot restart the process, you might have to open up the tablet and replug the battery to completely power off the device.
10. You should see a success message: "Reboot to unlocked fastboot". Only proceed if you see the message.
11. Once the device boots to fastboot (check with "fastboot devices"; you should also see amazon logo on the screen.), you can run "sudo ./fastboot-step.sh".
12. At this point the device should boot into recovery, however the screen will be off. Just press the power button twice and the screen should turn on.
13. Success! You now have a custom recovery installed that can be accessed by holding down power and volume down (the leftmost) buttons. At this point if you came here from a custom ROM thread you should probably follow the ROM installation instructions. Alternatively, the next steps will detail installing a stock firmware and rooting it with Magisk.
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14. We'll now upload required files to the recovery. On your PC, do:
adb push update-kindle-NS6312_user_1827_0002517050244.bin /sdcard/fw.zip
adb push Magisk-v19.3.zip /sdcard
adb push finalize.zip /sdcard
15. In the recovery, go to "Install", navigate to "/sdcard" and flash fw.zip
16. Go to "Wipe" and do the default wipe, then reboot
17. At the Fire setup screen, select your language. On the next screen, Wifi setup, select any password-protected network, then instead of entering the password press "cancel". Now, back at the wifi setup screen, press "Skip setup" and "Skip" in the dialog pop-up again
18. Wait for the update to finish (wait until the updating fire notification disappears)
19. Hold down the power button, press Restart and hold volume down to boot into recovery.
20. In the recovery, go to "Install", navigate to "/sdcard" and flash Magisk-v19.3.zip
21. Press back, select finalize.zip and flash it
22. Once finalize.zip is flashed, press "Reboot System"
VERY IMPORTANT STUFF:
Only ever flash boot images from TWRP. Since nothing but TWRP is aware of the exploit, if you try to flash a boot image from Android, it won't have the exploit integrated into it! This includes Magisk as well, so do NOT install or uninstall it from Magisk Manager (However, installing modules should be fine; although it depends on the specific module).
Due to how the exploit works, it takes over the first 0x400 bytes of boot.img/recovery.img. When flashing zips from the recovery, it will transparently remove and then reinstall the exploit when needed. So long as you flash zips from the recovery, you should treat the boot image normally. However, this means that you cannot use any other apps (e.g. FlashFire) to flash the boot or recovery partitions.
To uninstall the hack and revert back to stock:
Other misc information / troubleshooting:
- If you need to disconnect the battery, use a pair of tweezers to grab the wires and gently pull towards yourself. You can do bootrom-step.sh either with or without the battery connected, however fastboot-step.sh should be done with the battery connected.
- If your device is bricked (e.g. from a downgrade), just follow the steps as-is.
- If you're getting an error like "Serial protocol mismatch", or any other error in bootrom-step, try disabling or temporarily uninstalling ModemManager from your Linux
- To remount /system as rw use "mount -o rw,remount /system". ("mount -o remount,rw /system" will not work)
Thanks to: aftv2-tools contributors https://gitlab.com/zeroepoch/aftv2-tools: for an implementation of mtk download protocol, @diplomatic for mtk-su, @Michajin for testing the instructions.5They are working to port lineage OS 14.1 from the Fire 8 to it. Waiting for it too, will use my 7th gen tablet in the meantime
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https://xdaforums.com/hd8-hd10/gene...e-hd8-2018-t3936242/post79915018#post79915018
I already port it. The problem is that I don't have a good Wi-Fi since I'm not a thome this days.4Thanks for your work!
On a side note, I also had adaptive storage on during the process. I was having crashing issues after install. I re-installed the firmware-wiped and booted. I followed the steps to boot without setup. Then booted back into TWRP, flashed magisk, but did not flash finalize. I like access to some of the amazon apps. Once I rebooted (I stayed off wi-fi) I sideloaded a package disabler and disabled the OTA. I registered then disabled the amazon bloat I didn't want. I have installed my sd card as portable this time, just to be safe.
also, TWRP does not have backup and restore options, is this normal on this currently?4New TWRP for mustang (with backup-support) is now available: https://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/orig-development/recovery-twrp-touch-recovery-fire-7-t3949114
