How to manually upgrade/downgrade your Amazon FireTV

roligov · Jun 27, 2014

rp201 said:
if one has a usb thumb drive and stick mount installed, copying the .bin to the /cache folder step might be faster?

Yeah good point, will probably a lot faster that was. I've added it to the OP, thanks!

bradr00lzd00d1 · Jun 27, 2014

So there's no need to unblock the update server before doing this since its straight off the device itself

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ugabuga · Jun 27, 2014

Not sure what I am doing wrong, but tried twice now and received " The system update was not successful. Your firetv will restart in a few mins"

gazdaman. · Jun 28, 2014

ugabuga said:
Not sure what I am doing wrong, but tried twice now and received " The system update was not successful. Your firetv will restart in a few mins"

I had the same issue.
Make sure the command file has no file extension.
It has to be "command" not "command.txt"

ugabuga · Jun 28, 2014

gazdaman. said:
I had the same issue.
Make sure the command file has no file extension.
It has to be "command" not "command.txt"

Just tried again and now adb failed saying - no space left on device.

Just checked and it has over 3gb free....GRRRRRRRRRR

Anyone have any ideas? I installed ES File Manager but not seeing anything taking up space

realtuxen · Jun 29, 2014

Just wanted to say thanks. Worked perfectly. One thing though you can not wget the command file, (for the op: use a url shortner to the "real" file) so transfer it the same way as you did with the update.zip. And ofcause remove the .txt extension that the browser insist to add.

hmagoo · Jun 29, 2014

ugabuga said:
Just tried again and now adb failed saying - no space left on device.

Just checked and it has over 3gb free....GRRRRRRRRRR

Anyone have any ideas? I installed ES File Manager but not seeing anything taking up space

try "df -h" in shell

roligov · Jun 30, 2014

realtuxen said:
One thing though you can not wget the command file, so transfer it the same way as you did with the update.zip. And ofcause remove the .txt extension that the browser insist to add.

Why can't you use wget? Did you not install Busybox Free as per first post?

realtuxen · Jun 30, 2014

roligov said:
Why can't you use wget? Did you not install Busybox Free as per first post?

Yeah I use Busybox Free. The same as in the first post.
Because it redirects you to a https site which the version of wget does not support:

Code:

c:\winadb>adb shell
shell@android:/ $ su
su
root@android:/ # wget http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16913146/command
wget http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16913146/command
Connecting to dl.dropboxusercontent.com (23.21.243.212:80)
wget: not an http or ftp url: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16913146/command
1|root@android:/ #

I can use curl in insecure mode though if pointing it directly to the https server and specifying a ouput file instead of being redirected as you can see here.

First with the original url and outputting to console so we can see what we get which is not useful

:

Code:

root@android:/ # curl -k http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16913146/command

<html>
  <head><title>Found</title></head>
  <body>
    <h1>Found</h1>
    <p>The resource was found at <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16
913146/command">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16913146/command</a>;
you should be redirected automatically.

<!--  --></p>
    <hr noshade>
    <div align="right">WSGI Server</div>
  </body>
</html>
root@android:/ #

Pointing directly to the https server with option -k to skip the certificate and specifying a file seems to work:

Code:

root@android:/ # curl -k https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16913146/command -o command

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    35  100    35    0     0     54      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--    71
root@android:/ #

Ok..Let's check contents of command to be sure it worked:

Code:

root@android:/ # cat command
cat command
--update_package=/cache/update.zip
root@android:/ #

All ok!.

I have no idea why we seem to have different versions of wget, but the one I'm using is the one (not supporting https) I always got from busybox. It's not the first time I have come across this "issue" using busybox on many different devices and distro's such as openelec for RPi.

---------- Post added at 03:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:06 PM ----------

Sorry for all the edit's.. But at least it bumped my posts so I can quick reply, and I do not have to verify a capcha anymore, lol

vn_soft · Jul 1, 2014

So do I, I can not understand 9 step "9. wget http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16913146/command".

can you tell me more clear this step

lolwatpear · Jul 1, 2014

vn_soft said:
So do I, I can not understand 9 step "9. wget http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16913146/command".

can you tell me more clear this step

follow this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53715513&postcount=18

vn_soft · Jul 1, 2014

lolwatpear said:
follow this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53715513&postcount=18

tks. can you give me "command". I no longer can not download it

fireTVnews.com · Jul 1, 2014

vn_soft said:
So do I, I can not understand 9 step "9. wget http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16913146/command".

can you tell me more clear this step

A commenter on my guide suggested using this in place of that step:

Code:

echo “--update_package=/cache/update.zip” > command

I haven't tried it but it should work.

realtuxen · Jul 1, 2014

The above should work, or you can replace step #9 with:

Code:

curl -k https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16913146/command -o command

rbox · Jul 1, 2014

fireTVnews.com said:
A commenter on my guide suggested using this in place of that step:

Code:

echo “–update_package=/cache/update.zip” > command

I haven't tried it but it should work.

That should be --update with 2 -'s.

fireTVnews.com · Jul 1, 2014

rbox said:
That should be --update with 2 -'s.

Big thanks for catching that. My WYSIWYG editor kept converting it.

kairnage · Jul 1, 2014

For those who are manually updating.

I did the manual update and was really pleased with the new firmware. I started having problems with WiFi dropping and I figured it was my router but decided to check with Amazon customer service to see if people had reported it. They asked me to verify my firmware version and when I did they told me I should not have received the update yet. I put on my "I don't know how this newfangled technologicky stuff works" voice and asked a bunch of stupid questions like could hooking up to a friends network or having the date set wrong have made it update. He bought it and said it appears to have happened to a few people.

He did give me the obligatory "it would void your warranty" if I installed it manually speech then verified my connection looked good and they could see my unit over the web. He asked if I waned to replace it under warranty anyway to be safe, I declined and he let me know I would hvae to go through all the steps we had again if I wanted to replace it later.

So short story long - I would keep you old version number handy if you manually update and maybe end up getting a soft brick you can't recover yourself down the road, at least until we are pretty sure the official update has gone global.

bobq1979 · Jul 1, 2014

Conclusion. I keep my old firmware.thanks a lot to share your experience

Have fun

rp201 · Jul 3, 2014

I used a usb thumb drive to upgrade

fyi Using the thumb drive took about 20 seconds or less to copy file to cache folder:

root@android:/sdcard/usbStorage/sda/ # cp bueller-ota-51.1.1.0_user_511069920-signed.bin /cache/update.zip

I wonder if the usb port is usb 3.0?

Tomsgt · Jul 3, 2014

rp201 said:
fyi Using the thumb drive took about 20 seconds or less to copy file to cache folder:

root@android:/sdcard/usbStorage/sda/ # cp bueller-ota-51.1.1.0_user_511069920-signed.bin /cache/update.zip

I wonder if the usb port is usb 3.0?

check out this thread on my firmware script tool
http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/development/script-fire-tv-firmware-upgrade-t2802982

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