Amazon Fire 5th Gen [SuperTool] Root, Google play install, block ota updates and more

Tomsgt · Dec 17, 2015

Hi guys its RootJunky again and i have put together another SuperTool for all of you.
this SuperTool is for the Amazon Fire 5th gen 7in tablet only. Some options may work on other version but that would be at your own risk.
View attachment 3579065

NOTE This tool has been Tested and built for the Amazon Fire 5th gen 7in tablet. some features may work on other 5th gen tablets but use it at your own risk.
Features
WINDOWS VERSION
1. ADB driver install and test
2. Install Google play store plus remove ads on some fire os versions
3. block ota updates
4. boot device to twrp recovery 5.0.1 and below
5. Install FlashFire App
6. root amazon Fire 5th gen on android 5.1.2 and below
7. replace stock fire launcher with Nova launcher
8. remove lock screen ads on fire os 5.1.2 and below
9. Update SuperTool Files

LINUX AND MAC VERSION
1. Install Google play store plus remove ads on some fire os versions
2. root amazon Fire 5th gen on android 5.1.2 and below
3. block ota updates
4. remove lock screen ads on fire os 5.1.2
5. replace stock fire launcher with Nova launcher
6. Install FlashFire App
7. Install Xposed Framework
8. Quit

Note you can downgrade firmware from Fire OS 5.3.2 to 5.3.1 without any problems. Do not downgrade any lower.
WARNING do not attempt to downgrade your firmware if you are on 5.3.1 you will hard brick the device. You can downgrade to 5.1.2 from 5.1.4 5.1.3 or 5.1.2.1
NOTE Amazon Fire OS 5.1.2.1 will not let you root with Kingroot and you will need to downgrade to 5.1.2 to use this supertool to root the device. All firmware can be found HERE
I made this video on the firmware flashing process but a word of WARNING you can not downgrade below 5.1.2, or you will hard brick your device.
FIRE OS 5.1.2 NUMBER update-kindle-global-37.5.4.2_user_542168620.bin you can use this new Supertool to downgrade to Fire OS 5.1.2 really easily

New more info on this tool related to the HD8 and HD10 check here

New Version of SuperTool available as of 11-28-16
change log

NOTE Download the File without the dashes - - - - - - between words its the new version
LInk to Supertool HERE

VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS WIINDOWS https://youtu.be/sVv1D_LNLTg

VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS MAC AND LINUX <Mod Edit: Link removed for affiliate sales link.>

NOTE IF ON WINDOWS 8 YOU MAY WANT TO TURN OFF DRIVER SIGNING CHECK SEE LINK
NOTE its best if you extract the supertool folder to your desktop it seems to work the best in this location on your C drive.

Here is a link to all of my video tutorials
<Mod Edit: Link removed for promoting paid service and affiliate sales links.>

Big thanks to all the devs that have put some awesome work on this device.

Note you can always update the apps in the SuperTool with these links
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/chainfire/flashfire/
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/chainfire/supersu/
https://kingroot.net/

rorytmeadows · Dec 17, 2015

Wow very cool. Thanks for all of the developers' work. You folks are great!

revdirty · Dec 17, 2015

To clarify , this will not be able to install a recovery like twrp or CM if it was ota'ed to 5.1.1 without having been done before the update.. just for people that did that prior to 5.1.1 right?
Im on 5.1.1 updated outta the box.. no way to install a rom right?

Tomsgt · Dec 17, 2015

rorytmeadows said:
Wow very cool. Thanks for all of the developers' work. You folks are great!

please let me know if there are any bugs. I did test it a couple times on my device thats for sure

Tomsgt · Dec 17, 2015

revdirty said:
To clarify , this will not be able to install a recovery like twrp or CM if it was ota'ed to 5.1.1 without having been done before the update.. just for people that did that prior to 5.1.1 right?
Im on 5.1.1 updated outta the box.. no way to install a rom right?

yes that is correct 5.1.1 still has a locked down bootloader. but if we find a work around it will be added to the tool.

revdirty · Dec 17, 2015

Tomsgt said:
yes that is correct 5.1.1 still has a locked down bootloader. but if we find a work around it will be added to the tool.

This is why i love the XDA Community , mostly the most helpful people on the interwebs.
thank you , my children will have a Great xmas now with a less borked tablet!

Also , will have to install SuperSU or will this tool do that as part of the root process?

pappasmurfsharem · Dec 17, 2015

Just too a look at your script.

Note: the OTA block wont work for 5.1.1 bootloader devices if the device has been rebooted as the shell doesn't start as root without the fastboot oem cmd.

You can however do

adb shell
su
<pm etc etc etc>

after it has been rooted with the script.

rorytmeadows · Dec 17, 2015

Airplane mode through setup, then run this, correct? Can it be run before setup?

Tomsgt · Dec 17, 2015

revdirty said:
This is why i love the XDA Community , mostly the most helpful people on the interwebs.
thank you , my children will have a Great xmas now with a less borked tablet!

Also , will have to install SuperSU or will this tool do that as part of the root process?

its all part of the process i will make a video on it later tonight to show it off

blueberry.sky · Dec 17, 2015

revdirty said:
To clarify , this will not be able to install a recovery like twrp or CM if it was ota'ed to 5.1.1 without having been done before the update.. just for people that did that prior to 5.1.1 right?

We can not "install" twrp or any recovery regardless of the FireOS version (5.0, 5.0.1, 5.1.1). We could only temporarily load our recovery into memory (5.0 & 5.0.1). Need a pc each time you want to load one of our recoveries.

Tomsgt · Dec 17, 2015

pappasmurfsharem said:
Just too a look at your script.

Note: the OTA block wont work for 5.1.1 bootloader devices if the device has been rebooted as the shell doesn't start as root without the fastboot oem cmd.

You can however do

adb shell
su
<pm etc etc etc>

after it has been rooted with the script.

thanks i will look into that. since i havent tried blocking ota on 5.1.1 yet thanks

pappasmurfsharem · Dec 17, 2015

Tomsgt said:
thanks i will look into that. since i havent tried blocking ota on 5.1.1 yet thanks

No worries

with the 5.1.1 OTA

after you Root if you ADB SHELL it starts as the "shell" user
you just type: su then confirm on screen with the SuperUser app.

revdirty · Dec 17, 2015

I attempted this script and for the root process i got this:

pappasmurfsharem · Dec 17, 2015

revdirty said:
I attempted this script and for the root process i got this *snip*

Did you extract the ZIP to a folder or just DOUBLE click the BAT file?

revdirty · Dec 17, 2015

pappasmurfsharem said:
Did you extract the ZIP to a folder or just DOUBLE click the BAT file?

extracted the zip to a folder on my desktop and ran .bat as admin

pappasmurfsharem · Dec 17, 2015

revdirty said:
extracted the zip to a folder on my desktop and ran .bat as admin

Interesting... His script looks good.

Let me try on mine.

revdirty · Dec 17, 2015

pappasmurfsharem said:
Interesting... His script looks good.

Let me try on mine.

thank you , lemme know how it goes for ya

blueberry.sky · Dec 17, 2015

revdirty said:
Im on 5.1.1 updated outta the box.. no way to install a rom right?

Well, . . . . there currently seems to be one way but it's not the safest. It would be advisable for most to just wait a little bit to see if we can restore the ability to load twrp recovery.

pappasmurfsharem · Dec 17, 2015

revdirty said:
thank you , lemme know how it goes for ya

Looks ok on my end

Code:

press a key to reboot the device in fastboot mode
< waiting for device >
...
(bootloader) APPEND KERNEL CMDLINE

OKAY [  0.007s]
finished. total time: 0.007s
resuming boot...
OKAY [  0.003s]
finished. total time: 0.004s
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[*] your device is rebooting and will inject root files.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
remount succeeded
2601 KB/s (170232 bytes in 0.063s)
241 KB/s (1976 bytes in 0.007s)
2411 KB/s (75364 bytes in 0.030s)
3633 KB/s (5904943 bytes in 1.586s)
1966 KB/s (29972 bytes in 0.014s)

It might be a strange issue with the Administrator having "odd rights" on your User/Desktop folder.

Try moving the folder to the root of your C drive

revdirty · Dec 17, 2015

pappasmurfsharem said:

Looks ok on my end

Code:

press a key to reboot the device in fastboot mode
< waiting for device >
...
(bootloader) APPEND KERNEL CMDLINE

OKAY [  0.007s]
finished. total time: 0.007s
resuming boot...
OKAY [  0.003s]
finished. total time: 0.004s
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[*] your device is rebooting and will inject root files.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
remount succeeded
2601 KB/s (170232 bytes in 0.063s)
241 KB/s (1976 bytes in 0.007s)
2411 KB/s (75364 bytes in 0.030s)
3633 KB/s (5904943 bytes in 1.586s)
1966 KB/s (29972 bytes in 0.014s)

It might be a strange issue with the Administrator having "odd rights" on your User/Desktop folder.

Try moving the folder to the root of your C drive

trying now, and for anyone else, i am opting to have this conversation in the thread instead of a pm so that it may help others later.

Edit: still same error msg as before , attempted to run from root of C: with running bat as admin

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